Fantagraphics Blog Eric Reynolds

Tonight Paul Hornschemeier and Jay Ryan begin the Midwest/East Coast portion of their tour at Quimby's in Chicago. If you'll be anywhere in the area tonight, stop by. Paul will be reading "Beginning Paragraphs to Stories I'm Not Going to Write" and "Voice Overs for Non-existent Movie Trailers." Look for tour updates from Paul here. Wednesday, November 11, 7pmQuimby's Bookstore1854 West North AveChicago, IL Tomorrow Paul Hornschemeier and Jay Ryan will be on the radio before their Milwaukee event at 4:30 on WMSE 91.7FM. You can listen to it live online, or it listen to it once it's archived here. The details for the Milwaukee show are:Thursday, Nov 12th, 7pmThe Sugar…

Dash Shaw has a newly redesigned website, including a section devoted to his new book, The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. (coming next month from Fantagraphics). Check it out.   

  Photo by my pal Kurt Schlosser. 

Designed by Chris Ware. 

Richard Stoner sent us these amazing photographs he took of Jacques Boyreau's SuperTrash show at the Warhol Museum. If you like these pics, you need to pre-order Portable Grindhouse NOW.       This one's for Sean Collins, who I imagine is making plans for a trip to Pittsburgh right now. 

Here's a slew of stellar pics from Robert Williams' opening at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in NYC on Halloween night. Those sculptures! If you live in NYC, the show remains up thru Jan. 23, and be sure to check out Williams' new book, CONCEPTUAL REALISM, as well.  

  "Will Everyone Please Stop Freaking Out Over Ayn Rand?!?"

Unfortunately, the Al Columbia event at Desert Island this Friday has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. That said, pick up PIM & FRANCIE this week at Desert Island or your local comic book store / bookstore of choice! It's a killer. 

 I'm told that Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes' GHOST WORLD film premiered on your local Movies On Demand channel over Halloween weekend. I don't have a local Movies On Demand channel myself, so I'm not really sure how this works but hopefully you can figure it out yourself. If you've never seen it, you owe it to yourself to, and if you have seen it, you know you're probably due for a repeat viewing. 

Last month I was in L.A. and visited by ol' pal Johnny Ryan and he showed me the first 30 or so pages from PRISON PIT Vol. 2. They were as sensory-assaulting as you'd expect if you've read Vol. 1. I immediately reached in my pocket for my camera, to take a few pics for Flog, only to discover that in my morning pre-coffee fog, I'd inadvertently grabbed my power plug for my laptop and put that in my pocket instead of my camera. I am an idiot. So instead of seeing a few sample pages, you'll have to whet your whistle with this: