March or wander into your local comic book shop to pick up the latest releases from Fantagraphics. Out today: Wandering Son Vol. 8 Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 7: “March of the Zombies” Find a store near you: http://www.comicshoplocator.com/storelocator
Help Sam Jackson Raise Money for the Huichol People and Get a Free Copy of Jack Jackson’s Los Tejanos
Sam Jackson is following in the honorable footsteps of his father —Jack Jackson, the great underground cartoonist and graphic historian and documentarian— in more ways than one: he is an artist and a man of conscience. The tribal lands of the Huichol people are currently, to quote from their web site, “under siege by mining companies and agro business polluters who have illegally obtained land, water and mining rights. While the Huichols hold title to their lands in their mountain homeland, they do not have formal title to the sacred sites on these desert lands that they consider to be…
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce “Wuvable Oaf is definitely a book you’ll want to eat up.“ Read more at Paste Magazine “There isn’t really anything else out there like Ed Luce’s Wuvable Oaf. Not only does it star one of the most charming and likable gay characters in comics, it also features a cross-section of gay subculture that doesn’t get much play in other media.” Read more at Mental Floss, Most Interesting Comics of the Week “It’s a great comic. It’s well drawn, and the dialogue and story are grounded, believable and really damn funny…” Read more at Topless…
This Week’s Press Highlights
Daniel Clowes created the cover art for The Stranger this week Inside you'll find a fantastic interview by Sean Nelson who calls The Complete Eightball "the stunningly smart and innovative comic that did what almost no other comic seemed able to do at the time: enter the culture of people who didn't like comics." Read more: The Masterpiece That Helped Transform Comics and Culture Over at the Seattle Weekly, Roger Downey writes that "It's an early but by no means immature work, establishing Clowes as perhaps the best exemplar extant of the underground-comic sensibility of the late 20th century." Read more: Time in a Box: Fantagraphics…
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: The Pixilated Parrot By Carl Barks- First Look
Take a first look at The Pixilated Parrot , the latest volume of Carl Barks' clever cartoons. When Donald gives Uncle Scrooge a parrot for his birthday, hijinks quickly ensue as the feathered troublemaker escapes—with the combination to Scrooge's vault! Donald and his nephews set out to recover the bird—an adventure that will take them on a most unexpected journey to the far reaches of the globe. This handsome volume also contains one of Barks' finest stories—Vacation Time (it has its own Wikipedia entry )—about a wilderness outing gone awry. Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "The Pixilated Parrot " (The Complete…
Prince Valiant Vol. 11: 1957-1958 by Hal Foster – Cover Uncovered
The latest book in Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant series will soon be in stores. In the eleventh volume, our hero (and his dashing pageboy haircut) will travel to Camelot and wage a bloody campaign to secure the Eastern marches. The cover art in this post is just the first of more previews to come. Keep an eye out for more sneak peeks in the coming weeks. Prince Valiant Volume 11: 1957-1958 is expected to ship in May and is available for pre-order now.
