Zak Sally in Olympia TONIGHT, Seattle TOMORROW!

Danger Room Comics welcomes Zak Sally and Nate Denver tonight (Friday August 1st) for an evening of books, music and destruction. And the West Coast tour concludes at our very own Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery tomorrow night (Saturday August 2nd). Both events: 6PM Doors, 7PM Music, 8PM Books, All-Ages, FREE.

Blab! Museum Show at KSU

  BLAB!: A Retrospective opens August 1, 2008 at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on the campus of Kansas State University. The exhibition, organized by the Beach Museum of Art, will be on view through November 2, 2008. It is the first American museum exhibition devoted to the work of BLAB!, Monte Beauchamp's periodic anthology of sequential and comic art, illustration, painting, and printmaking. The exhibition, which focuses on BLAB! #8-18 (1995-2007), features the work of forty-six artists and includes 150 works of art from thirty-nine collections. All of the work in the exhibition has appeared in BLAB!. Artists…

Johnny Ryan Fans UNITE!

Good news for my fellow Angry Youth Comix fans (for full details go HERE):  New Character Parade features 24 one page comics starring all new soon-to-be icons like Half Man Half Shit, Fuckball, Ralph Waldo Schmegma, Baby Stud, Kenny Kloggins, Rasputin On A Dirtbike, Sherlock Homeless, Butt Douglas and many more. I am so there.  

My favorite con pic so far.

From Publishers Weekly's "PW Comics Week." The Hernandez Dynasty: Gilbert, Natalia, and Unca Jaime. As Tom Spurgeon put it this morning, "My friends and I make jokes that everything always comes back to the Hernandez Brothers, but it does." Except now it comes back to the Hernandez Brothers… and Daughters! Update: Photo by Jody Culkin. Thank you!