Zak Sally and Jaime Hernandez at the Rain Taxi Literary Festival a couple weekends ago.
Your Old Jewish Comedian of the Day
Ladies and gentlemen, Sid (a.k.a. "Alf" from Green Acres) Melton! Pic by Steve Cross.
Be Logical, Vote Obama
Commemorate a memorable presidential campaign and sport your Trekkie pride via this Drew Friedman print available from the New York Observer. Drew, if you're reading, I'm still holding out for a Sarah Palin-in-Tatooine-Slave-Gear poster.
Tuesday Doodles
Shocktilyoudrop.com talks to Charles Burns about Black Hole, Fear of the Dark, and more. Thedailycrosshatch.com continues it's interview with Bottomless Belly Button creator Dash Shaw. This Thursday night at MIT, comics critic (and Krazy & Ignatz contributing editor) Jeet Heer will moderate a talk about "Comics & Social Conflict" between King creator Ho Che Anderson and Diana Tamblyn. Finally, here's a bunch of beautiful recent illustrations by Jeremy Eaton, including one particularly near and dear to my heart. Jeremy also tells the story of a rather pathetic 24 hour comics session that I was privileged enough to participate in.
Monday Doodles
The Boston Globe recently hosted a live chat with Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy. Authorsontourlive.com's latest podcast features Jules Feiffer and his recent appearance at Tattered Books in Denver a couple of weeks ago. Available beginning tomorrow: Paul Hornschemeier's Werewereyouwolf.
For One Day We Shall Rule the World
Today marks something of a milestone for Fantagraphics: our very first — in 32 years of publishing — cover of the venerable New York Times Book Review. Featured is Jules Feiffer's EXPLAINERS, in review by David Kamp titled "Cartoons for Grown-Ups" (who'da ever thunkit??). The online version even has the requisite NY Times slideshow. As my good pal Thom put it to me this morning via email, "What's next… a black president?" There is hope. But wait, that's not even all! The very same issue of the NYTBR features a full-page review of Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez's recent work, by the critic Douglas Wolk,…
Yoda-lodel-lay-hee-hoo
Six words sure to give him a nerdgasm: Mike Baehr is interviewed by StarWars.com (about his Yoda sketchbook).
Maggie for Obama
Bid on this killer piece and more HERE.
Vanity Fair profiles David Levine
I've been on vacation since SPX and as such neglected until now to link to this excellent feature (with slideshow) on David Levine in the pages of Vanity Fair. The news isn't all good — Mr. Levine is losing his eyesight and his legendary career has been curtailed accordingly — but the piece is a respectful, insightful profile of one of New York's most iconic artists. And it doesn't hurt that it hits just on the eve of the release of our new Levine book, American Presidents:
Gene Deitch & Tom Terrific
The great Gene Deitch sent me this nifty photo of himself this morning, taken by another great cartoonist (and would-be Zorro), Pete Poplaski, who recently visited Gene in Prague. Poplaski brought with him the near mint copy of the first issue of the 1957 Tom Terrific comic book, which I never even knew existed until now.
