Fantagraphics Blog Eric Reynolds

Here's a few details from the pieces in Jeremy Eaton's art show that opened in Seattle on Friday night. Check out the pieces online here. Very cool.      

  Go watch: The second episode of Concrete Jumble, a series of animations about the history of New York City, by Gary Leib. This one's about the history of Wall St. — well timed, Leib! After the last 24 hours, this might end up being a requiem for Wall St., too.   

Drew Friedman and a few other cartoonists explain their caricatures of the VP candidates over at the NY Times.

R.I.P.

Poster by Tim Silbaugh.  

Jeremy Eaton is selling two dozen gouache drawings (including those seen above) in a one-night only studio show/sale, Sept. 13, 6-9 p.m. The same work will be available online at the same time (go to Comic Book Collective), but those in attendance at the opening get a special "locals only" price. His studio is at 521 NW 43rd St., Seattle, WA 98107 (north side storefront of the big blue building at the junction of 6th Ave. NW & 43rd, just across from Hale's Brewery, on Leary Ave.). Seattlites best know Eaton as the illustrator of The Stranger's I Love Television column, as…

  Patrick Rosenkranz, comix historian and the author of the comprehensive tome Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975, will give a lecture about R. Crumb's work and the trangressive movement that it helped define, at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia next Wednesday, Sept. 17. The lecture is in conjunction with "R. Crumb's Underground," which opened last Friday and continues through Dec. 7 at the Institute of Contemporary Art (118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia) after previous stints in Seattle and California. Rosenkranz will also appear at Robin's Bookstore in Center City at noon on Sept. 17th.

… is gonna knock baseball fans' socks off. Some of the most crackling baseball action in comics I've ever seen (and there's more than you'd think).  

  You know the show, you know Dash. Listen, already! (Image from Bodyworld.)