Fantagraphics Blog Jacob Covey

Judging from the banner atop their website, Comics Comics is published in Kings County. The Comics Journal is published here in King County.  Comic Art magazine is published by Buenaventura Press in California, whose name is derived from a storied paradise peopled by black Amazons ruled by Queen Califia.  Thus we settle the question of the comics family's royal roots. …Another useless post.

What to get that creepy pervert in the next cubicle who has everything?  "Ward's Beauties" dingbat font! It's not like you wanted to spend money on that guy, right?

The great children's book illustrator, S.britt, just brought THIS to my attention and I agree with him– this could actually be a good adaptation of a classic. Spike Jonze, we've got our fingers crossed here.

Stan Sakai sent me an email asking if I knew anything about the strange beast pictured here. It's new to me and apparently the Japanese text doesn't address the creature. Does anyone know its story– or at least a name? Comments appreciated. Stan would like to know more about this unusual obakemono and I'd just love to see a hairy cyclopian leg show up in an Usagi Yojimbo story.

Congratulations to two talented Beasts! artists for making the list of Print magazine's annual 20 people under 30 to watch in the visual arts. The links below will take you to Print's write-up about each artist.  Eleanor Davis' work in the words of Françoise Mouly: "It’s very imaginative and funny and fanciful, but it’s also very thoroughly worked out. She’s not afraid to be clear."  Josh Cochran's work  in his own words: "It’s good to have a recognizable look. It’s even better if I can transcend it." My thanks again to these two for contributing their visions to Beasts!

Another great book that we have going to press this week, Low Moon collects the titular New York Times Magazine "Funny Pages" story but that's not even the half of it. In fact, it's about 1/5 of it as you can see from the Table of Contents below. This hefty book is the first hardcover collection of Jason work (for the U.S. anyway) and I think the back cover quote says it all.

I'm just finally seeing all the content for our second collection of Fletcher Hanks comics and if anyone doubts the need for a second collection I am here to say YES. YES, THE WORLD NEEDS ACCESS TO EVERYTHING HANKS DID. This is pure joy to me. The impassioned competence of the drawings and their gorgeous flatness. The fate-ridden inevitability of everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The horror, the slapstick, the compulsiveness of his work mapping out the very wiring of his chemistry's miserable imagination.  Paul Karasik has written a great introduction this time around and he is…

We print a lot of our books with Print Vision, based out of Portland. They do good work and roll with the comics jokes. Try em.