Fantagraphics Blog Eric Reynolds

  All times subject to change due to the whims of cartoonists and/or the vagaries of Comic-Con International, Interstate 5, and the airline industry.  WEDNESDAY Signings: 6PM-8PM: Kim Deitch8PM-9PM: Jim Woodring THURSDAY Signings: 12PM-1PM: Kim Deitch • Jon Vermilyea • Robert Goodin 1PM-2PM: Kim Deitch • Jon Vermilyea • Gilbert Hernandez • Natalia Hernandez2PM-3PM: Gilbert Hernandez • Mario Hernandez • Natalia Hernandez 3PM-4PM: Paul Karasik • Blake Bell 4PM-5PM: Dan Nadel • Jordan Crane • Jim Woodring 5PM-6PM: Tim Lane • Jim Woodring 6PM-7PM: Tim Lane • Craig Yoe Thursday Panels:  2:00PM: Spotlight on Jim Woodring, Rm. 10 6:25PM: Independents panel with…

Go read: Jeremy Eaton on how he almost had the chance to revamp a Marvel icon: Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham. 

Go here for a new podcast interview with Peter Bagge & the folks at "Let's Get Tight."

Blake Bell is taking readers "behind the scenes" of the production of his book, STRANGE & STRANGER: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO. There's a couple of interviews so far, and many more on the way – including scans of the entire notebook of Cat Yronwode's interview with Ditko's brother Pat back in 1983. Whoa!

For the London Times. 

Courtesy Robert Williams:

The new issue of Comics Foundry magazine features this pretty awesome explication of Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw:   

If you're attending Comic-Con next week and looking for a place to drink, fuck the Hyatt. There are about 1700 better, cheaper places to drink in downtown San Diego, anyway. I liked Tom Spurgeon's take on this controversy this morning. Oh, and if you live in Oklahoma, please don't vote for this asswipe. If so, you'll be supporting lousy cartooning on top of bigotry.

  Our pals at the First Post have posted a special nine-page preview of Blake Bell's STRANGE & STRANGER: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO, which seems to be the book everyone is talking about this week. Find out what all the hubbub's about.