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Matt Selman blogs over at TIME about writing this weekend's Simpsons episode featuring Clowes, Spiegelman, Moore, Meltdown, Tintin, etc.
Opening Friday: UNSEEN PEANUTS in Seattle!
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery Proudly Presents "UNSEEN PEANUTS," an Exhibition of Rarely Seen Works by Charles M. Schulz Opening November 23.
"It's no stretch at all to say that Charles Schulz was the most popular and successful American artist who ever lived." — Charles McGrath, New York Times
Perhaps no American artist is more closely associated with the holidays than "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, in association with the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, celebrates the holiday season with "Unseen Peanuts," a display of little known works by this incomparable master of the comic strip medium. The exhibition opens on Friday, November 23 and continues through December 31, 2007.
Peter Bagge on cable tonight
Artland:USA, a Dish satellite network series showcasing artwork throughout the nation, will recognize Seattle's artsy side in tonight's episode. It includes an interview with Seattle cartoonist Peter Bagge along with trips to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Olympic Sculpture Park, the Seattle Public Library, and my personal favorite art museum in Seattle, the Frye.
Larry Reid’s Fanta (Eros) Racer?
Mister Wonderful, Part 10
While you wait for the Simpsons to air on Sunday night, enjoy the latest chapter of Daniel Clowes' Mister Wonderful.
Mary In Comic Con Land
My new favorite diversion: Mary In Comic Con Land. Artist Mary Fleener lives just north of San Diego and as such has attended a *lot* of Comicons over the last 25 years, and now she's sharing a quarter-century of photos. It's a treasure trove featuring just about every alt comix luminary you can think of from the last three decades, from Spiegelman to Bagge to Seda to Clowes to to Groening to Eisner and dozens more. And they're all so young and fresh-faced, positioned against faded convention center walls and faux-wood paneling, with none of the glitzy excess of today's…
Sunday night: Simpsons with Clowes & Co.
Finally! This Sunday night (8PM/7C) is the long-awaited airing of The Simpsons episode featuring Daniel Clowes, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Jack Black. Reportedly, the episode finds Jack Black's character opening "Coolsville," a hipster comic shop that threatens the Comic Book Guy and Android's Dungeon. How Clowes, Spiegelman and Moore factor in we can only guess, but can't wait to find out. Set those Tivos early.
Mike Allred does Fletcher Hanks
NEWSARAMA has the scoop. UPDATE: Adam Grano pointed out to me that in that Newsarama thread, commenter Alex Cruz really sums it up when he says, "Wou, Allred is hallucinate hard with the marihuana, is traveling in same flight that Moebius." Couldn't have put it better myself.
Announcing Love and Rockets Vol. III
LOVE AND ROCKETS MOVES TO ANNUAL, BOOK-SIZE FORMAT IN 2008 Seattle, WA — After 25 years of being published in a traditional saddle-stitched magazine format released three or more times a year — first in the magazine-sized VOLUME I (50 issues, 1982-1996) and then in the comic book sized VOLUME II (20 issues, 2000-2007) — the award-winning LOVE AND ROCKETS comic book series will go on hiatus effective immediately and return next summer in its third incarnation, as a series of all-original, graphic novel-length releases. Each annual volume will comprise at least 100 pages of all-new comics, split evenly between…
