Al Jaffee talks MAD in this first of a three part interview with Daily Crosshatch, with HUMBUG talk to come…
MOMEntum at MCAD this weekend
I'm making my first-ever trip to Minneapolis on Thursday for this event, which I'm very much looking forward to. Any of you Flog readers in Minneapolis out there reading, I'd love to meet you there! MOMENTUM: THE NEW COMICS When: March 6 – April 19, 2009Where: MCAD Gallery: Concourse GalleryOpening Reception: Friday, March 6, 6-8 p.m.Lecture by MOME editor Eric Reynolds: Friday, March 6, 1 p.m., MCAD Auditorium 150Gallery Talk with Tom Kaczynski and Zak Sally: Thursday, April 9, 6:30 p.m. mome noun (1553) 1. archaic: fool; blockhead. 2. a quarterly anthology showcasing the best new talent of this decade's…
MOME show “MOMENTUM” opens at MCAD March 6
MOMENTUM: THE NEW COMICS When: March 6 – April 19, 2009Where: MCAD Gallery: Concourse GalleryOpening Reception: Friday, March 6, 6-8 p.m.Lecture by MOME editor Eric Reynolds: Friday, March 6, 1 p.m., MCAD Auditorium 150Gallery Talk with Tom Kaczynski and Zak Sally: Thursday, April 9, 6:30 p.m. http://www.mcad.edu/showPage.php?pageID=1119&eventID=379 mome noun (1553) 1. archaic: fool; blockhead. 2. a quarterly anthology showcasing the best new talent of this decade's rising cartoon generation. MOMENTUM: The New Comics presents a retrospective of comic artworks published in the Harvey and Eisner award-nominated quarterly Mome (Fantagraphics Books), one of the industry's leading contemporary anthologies. Anchored by an…
Covey’s Beasts Unleashed
Hoity toity graphic design site Faceoutbooks.com talks to our own Jacob Covey about Beasts!
Kerschbaum interviewed
John Kerschbaum gets the Sunday interview treatment at the Comics Reporter this weekend, about Petey & Pussy. Go read!
Cartoonists with Guns
First in a recurring Flog! feature: ROBERT WILLIAMS SUZANNE WILLIAMS AL COLUMBIA (with GARY GROTH) DAVID COLLIER
C. Tyler Interviewed About New Book
Carol Tyler is interviewed at newsarama about her forthcoming graphic memoir, YOU'LL NEVER KNOW, which is certain to be one of the most talked-about graphic novels of 2009. I know Mike already linked to this but it wasn't working earlier and Tyler's awesome enough that it should be called out.
Tim Hensley & Wally Gropius
I'm putting together the 15th issue of MOME (Summer 2009) right now and it features the final three chapters of Tim Hensley's spectacular "Wally Gropius, Teen Millionaire" which has appeared in MOME since our fifth issue (Fall 2006). I can't even tell you how proud I am to have published this comic. Hensley is such a singular talent. He's so good I'm almost at a loss to explain why. There's something transcendent about it. It looks like old 1950s teenage humor comics, specifically Mort Walker's proto-Beetle Bailey strip, Spider, as Adam Grano recently pointed out to me while laying out the upcoming Walker interview in The…
I’m so glad I’m not in on Fridays.
An email sent officewide today from our warehouse manager, Nico Vassilakis:
I. Brunetti: New Yorker, HO!
The new issue of the The New Yorker is out, and sports a beautiful cover by Ivan Brunetti: And if that looks attractive to you, don't miss Ivan's new book, HO!, which you can preorder now and hits stores in a few weeks.
