Your unlikely book review of the day. I want to know if she identified more with Dot or Wanda, tho'.
Vermilyea’s Animal Crack Box
If you like Animal Collective, and Jon Vermilyea, and you're rich, then this is unquestionably for you. If any Flog patrons want to buy this for me, I will not object.
Webslinger FAIL
This weekend I visited my parents in California, and this is the house directly across the street from them. According to my father, "That goddamn eyesore's been there for over a year." No further explanation was provided.
An Evening with Humbug at the Strand in NYC
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS AND THE STRAND PRESENT: AN EVENING OF HUMBUG In 1957, five artists — Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Arnold Roth, Al Jaffee and Jack Davis — hot on the heels of creating MAD magazine, pooled their money and their talent and entered into the creative, exuberant folly of a lifetime by creating the greatest satirical magazine of their careers. Join Humbug co-founders Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee in a book signing and discussion about this historic publication with Fantagraphics Publisher and editor of the collected Humbug, Gary Groth. Attendees will also enjoy an exclusive screening of a documentary short…
Bagge News
Stussy just released a series of T shirts that Peter Bagge designed for them, which can be seen here along with a video interview with a very bearded Bagge man. Bagge has also been doing a monthly comic strip for DISCOVER Magazine. Each strip features a famous (or not so famous) scientist of yore behaving in the quirky, asperger-y ways that scientists are renowned for (Bagge has uploaded a sample strip in the "pics" section of his MySpace page for you to marvel at here.) Meanwhile, a book collection of Bagge's REASON Magazine work (accurately titled Everyone is Stupid Except for Me)…
Hornschemeier Tours Northwest
PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER THE 2009 PACIFIC NORTHWEST TOUR April 2, 5:30-8:30PM: CHARLES A. HARTMAN FINE ART, Portland "Paul Hornschemeier: Cloistered in Crowds" First Thursday reception and book signing 134 NW 8th Ave. • hartmanfineart.net April 3, 6PM: LUCKY'S COMICS, Vancouver Book signing and author talk 3972 Main St. • luckys.ca April 4, All Day: EMERALD CITY CON, Seattle Appearing at the Fantagraphics Books tables Seattle Convention Center • emeraldcitycomicon.com April 4, 7PM: FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSTORE & GALLERY, Seattle A book signing and Emerald City Con after-party with Stan Sakai & Jaime Hernandez 1201 S. Vale St. • fantagraphics.com/bookstore Read the new book MOTHER, COME HOME from Fantagraphics
Stop Smiling, Crumb
The new issue of STOP SMILING magazine features a cover interview with R. Crumb. As one might expect from a major Crumb interview, it's a must read.
My Watchmen Review
You know how a band or artist can cover a song somewhat faithfully and still royally fuck it up? That's my review of Watchmen the movie. It's Madonna doing "American Pie".
Wolverine Fellatio SUCCESS
Failure is in the eye (mouth?) of the beholder. From the always awesome failblog.
MOMEntum Report
Above: Me with my trusty MOMEntum tour guide. "And here we have the work of French master, David B." So this past weekend I had the extreme good fortune of visiting the great city of Minneapolis for the opening of MOMEntum, a retrospective exhibition of the first 15 issues of MOME at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. The exhibition was the brainchild of MOME contributor and MCAD faculty member Zak Sally and his colleague, Barbara Schulz, who invited me to curate an exhibition of what I considered to be the cream of MOME's crop. Here's some scenes from the show: The show was a raging…
