Dan Nadel talks to Van Jensen about the work of Rory Hayes.
I need my Stewart TV
Is anyone else mildly annoyed that the Daily Show is on hiatus at all between now and the election? This is the home run derby and they are getting lobbed softballs with this "lipstick on a pig" hooey. Can I make a donation somewhere to keep this from happening the rest of the way out? Help us, Jon Stewart, you're our only hope…
Robert Pollard Tour Starts Sept. 25
Later this month, the great Robert Pollard will head out on tour with his new band, Boston Spaceships (featuring former GBV bassist Chris Slusarenko and Decemberists drummer John Moen), to promote not one but two new albums, as well as his first book, our very own Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard. Pollard will have ToM for sale at each stop on the tour, so don't forget to hit that ATM on the way down to the show. The tour kicks off Sept. 25th in Chincinnati. Don't miss it! Thu 9/25 Cincinnati OH – Midpoint Music Festival Fri 9/26 Cleveland OH – Grog Shop Sat 9/27 Washington…
Kim Deitch at The Strand on Sept. 18
FANTAGRAPHICS AND THE STRAND BOOKSTORE PRESENT: KIM DEITCH TALKS PICTORAMA AND MORE ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 18 Veteran underground cartoonist Kim Deitch, creator of the acclaimed Fantagraphics collection Shadowland and the Pantheon graphic novels Alias the Cat and Boulevard of Broken Dreams, has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new “picto-fiction” pocket book. Alternating between heavily illustrated near-comics stories and outright prose, Deitch’s Pictorama is a testament to the entire Deitch family’s amazing yarn-spinning abilities. Join Deitch at the Strand as he gives a power point presentation telling the story of how Deitch’s Pictorama came about and…
The Jackass Story
During those heady mid-1990s, Seattle's The Stranger (which has employed, at times, a slew of comics-related folks, from co-founder James Sturm, to former art directors Jason Lutes, Joe Newton, and Dale Yarger, and columnists like Tom Spurgeon and yours truly) was a hotbed for local cartooning. Strips would come and go and you could always count on the paper's back page for some quality cartoons. One of my all-time favorite Stranger strips was a short-lived feature by Jeremy Eaton, called Jackass. This surreal gem featured a disembodied head at the mercy of Eaton's imagination, and the results were always a great blend of…
Dan Clowes did not draw this…
… though it's quite an impressive forgery of his late-1980s style: Spotted HERE.
Seattleites: Help Forney Say Ta-Ta to Lustlab on Tuesday!
For the Capitol Hill Artwalk on September 9, Toys in Babeland is going to host a show of Ellen Forney's Lustlab originals, and she'll also be performing her Lust reading/presentation at TiB's 15th anniversary partyon September 18. The art show is called "Ta-ta, Lustlab Ad of the Week!" ELLEN FORNEY'sTa-Ta, "Lustlab Ad of the Week"!! Original art exhibition and LUST book signing Capitol Hill Art WalkTues., Sept. 9, 6 – 9pmFREE! Exhibition continues through Oct. 6 Babeland707 E. Pike St. (on Capitol Hill)Seattle, WA 98122206-328-2914 Join Ellen Forney in bidding "Ta-Ta!!" to her provocative "Lustlab Ad of the Week" cartoon series! Ellen will be on…
BLAB! at Copro Nason Tomorrow Night!
THE 4th ANNUAL BLAB! SHOWSaturday, September 6, 8:00-11:30 pmOPENING RECEPTION: September 6th, 8:00-11:30 pm Check out all the artwork HERE! Copro/Nason Gallery and Monte Beauchamp proudly present "THE BLAB! SHOW," the fourth Group Art Exhibition featuring original paintings and illustrations from the forthcoming issue of BLAB! magazine – Monte Beauchamp's periodic anthology of sequential and comic art, illustration, painting, and printmaking. Artists include: SHAG, TRAVIS LOUIE, RYAN HESHKA, GARY BASEMAN, RON ENGLISH, LUKE CHEUH, GARY TAXALI, FRED STONEHOUSE, ANDY KEHOE, TRAVIS LAMPE, LAURA LEVINE, MARC BURCKHARDT, CJ PYLE, MARK TODD, TOM HUCK, and MANY MORE. Don't Miss Out!!!! The show continues until September 27. COPRO/NASON GALLERY…
Scenes from a Town of Mirrors
Here's a swell recap of our recent Robert Pollard book release party, courtesy our pal Rob Clough. Thanks to Rob for the recpap and pics (and be sure to check out Rob's writing about comics, he's one of the best on the Net): On a rainy Durham evening on August 15th, Merge Records hosted a book release party and art exhibit for Robert Pollard. Merge has released the last several solo albums of the former Guided By Voices lead singer, so Durham was a fitting site for the debut of TOWN OF MIRRORS, a tribute to his remarkable eye as a visual…
I guess their first choice wasn’t available.
