Fantagraphics Blog Eric Reynolds

  Thursday night at NYC's MoCCA Museum, Kim Deitch will host a Cartoon Movie Night featuring rarely seen animated cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s hand-picked for the occasion from Deitch's own personal collection. This period of animation inspired Deitch's signature character Waldo the Cat and is the subject of his acclaimed graphic novel The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which is featured in the ongoing Deitch exhibit currently on display at MoCCA. As a special Halloween treat, MoCCA will also display for one night only selected specimens from Deitch and spouse Pam Butler's extensive collection of antique toy cats. The blurring of fact, fiction and autobiography in Deitch's work is a major…

Former Guilford, CT high school teacher Nate Fisher, who was railroaded out of a job after assigning Daniel Clowes' Eightball #22 to a student, is back on his feet and better than ever. 

  Mike Baehr, Janice Headley and I are headed down Friday for this weekend's Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, and we will be bringing along about 150 comics and books for you to browse and get signed all weekend long by our amazing line-up of attending authors: Saturday: 11AM Johnny Ryan 12PM Kevin Huizenga & Bob Levin1PM John Pham & Johnny Ryan2PM Daniel Clowes & Ted Stearn3PM Jaime Hernandez & Megan Kelso4PM Jaime Hernandez & Dame Darcy5PM From MOME: Jonathan Bennett & Tim Hensley Sunday:  11AM Megan Kelso & Kevin Huizenga12PM Jaime Hernandez & John Pham1PM Daniel Clowes & Ted…

This quote from a childhood friend of Barack Obama's jumped out at me in this great Guardian profile of people who knew Barack Obama growing up: "Grandpa bought me all the DC Comics books, and I was the only one who had them, so [Obama] and Yanto would borrow the books and copy pictures of Batman and Spider-Man out and ask me to judge which was better. [Obama] was always better than Yanto. Even Yanto always agreed with that. [Obama] had a great eye."  Yes, we are gaining a president, but we have lost a cartoonist. 

YOW! Legendary Cartoonist Bill Griffith Book Signing and Zippy Art Exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle on November 8. “Are we having fun yet?” We will be on Saturday, November 8 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, when Bill Griffith creator of the iconic Zippy the Pinhead comic strip character, makes a rare public appearance in the Northwest. Griffith will be on hand to sign his new Zippy collection Welcome to Dingburg, present an exhibition of original Zippy artwork, and give a brief slide talk. The public of all ages is invited to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle’s…

  Found in a thriftstore in Farmville, VA.

UCB’s PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE HOSTS GHOST WORLD SCREENING AND BOOK RELEASE PARTY Join the Pacific Film Archive in celebrating the charmed works of two Bay Area originals: Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and cartoonist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2625 Durant Avenue #2250 • Berkeley, CA 94720 • (510) 642-1124 Clowes and Zwigoff will host a special screening of the Ghost World film, followed by a Q&A and book signing to celebrate the release of Ghost World: Special Edition. This deluxe new edition of the bestselling graphic novel expands…

• Dash Shaw and Tony Millionaire are amongst the the official selections from which the the Festival International de la BD Angouleme main prizes will be drawn from at January's festival. That is very cool. • Joey Anuff has justified the Internet's existence. • Charles Crumb, who passed away 14 years ago, is gone but not forgotten.  • Rudy Ray Moore is not so far removed from the realm of this blog that it would be inappropriate to lament his passing here. R.I.P., R.R.M. A tip of the fur bucket to Rick Altergott and Jim Blanchard, who first introduced me to Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-In-Law. • Dennis the Menace cartoonist Marcus Hamilton is a thankful man.  • Bob Levin's blog is…