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Lilli Carré at Quimby’s this Thursday!
Join LAGOON author Lilli Carré at Quimby's! January 15, 2009, 7PM Join Lilli Carré as she signs copies of her new graphic novel The Lagoon (Fantagraphics). She will also sell prints and various little handmade book items. Refreshments will be served! In The Lagoon, a family is seduced by a mysterious creature's siren song that can be heard emanating from the lagoon after dark, and how each member reacts to the song in The Lagoon is the crux of the story. For the wise – or pixilated – Grandpa, the song reminds him that, in the time he has left, he must pause to respect,…
Penelope!
You should all head over to Rob Clough's HIGH-LOW site right now, read his Top 50 for 2008, and then thank him for getting it done when he did, because late last week he and his wife welcomed baby daughter Penelope into the world, and I guarantee you that if he hadn't finished that Top 50 before she was born, you would never have gotten the chance to read it. Which is my way of saying congratulations to Rob and Laura, who are about as kind as anyone you'll meet and will no doubt make fantastic parents.
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Obama’s First 100 Days…
Courtesy Drew Friedman and MAD Magazine…
Don’t Let the Door Hit You…
Vanity Fair.com has a nice gallery of George Dubya caricatures up, featuring Ed Sorel, Drew Friedman, Gerald Scarfe (pictured), and others.
The Usual Gang of Idiots
I read that one of the crucial plot points of Marvel's big Secret Invasion crossover involved newly-elected President Obama bouncing Tony 'Iron Man' Stark from leading the Avengers and replacing him with mass-murdering psychopath Norman 'The Green Goblin' Osborn, creating some king of supervillain Illuminati and making Marvel the new Jack Chick. Shrewd move. And now "Obama" is making another crass Marvel appearance in some kind of Spider-Man variant collectible bullshit issue. I'm loathe to link about it, but this Wonkette quote was too rich to pass up: "Who is that mysterious black person in a business suit who looks absolutely nothing like Barack…
Bennett’s Beat of the Traps
MOME contributor Jonathan Bennett has a fantastic, classic Sunday-style comic strip called "Beat of the Traps" in the new Kramers Ergot. John is a fantastic cartoonist whose work exhibits the craftsmanship of a master jeweler, but also has an existential soul a la Glenn Ganges or King Cat that its quotidian trappings often belie. He's really good. It turns out he also completed an additional page for Kramers of B&W dailies leading up to the Sunday payoff that the editor, Sammy Harkham, mercilessly rejected from the book. I like to picture Sammy laughing, with a cigar, as he gave Bennett the news. Anyway, luckily for us, Bennett has rescued the…
Obama the Magic Flute
We get a lot of random magazines in the office, and one is Adult Video News, a kind of Variety/Publishers Weekly for the sex industry. From today's front page: That's some choice copy, but they neglected to mention it could also double as a toy for H.R. Pufnstuff fetishists.
Tintin: Confirmed Bachelor?
The Times Online seems to think so. Thanks to our neighbors at the Stranger for the link. Next thing you know, someone's going to try to tell me that Batman and Robin are gay. As if!
