Bob Levin talks to Tom Spurgeon

Most Outrageous author Bob Levin talked to Tom Spurgeon over at the Comics Reporter yesterday. This is your must-read interview of the day, from an author you probably haven't read, about a subject you probably thought you had no interest in. Why, then? Because in Most Outrageous, as Spurgeon so aptly put it, "Levin has written what may be the first completely unforgettable book about a modern cartoonist." 

Devotio Moderno May 1 NYC

A new Joe Coleman show opens this weekend in NYC…  Speaking of Joe, if you don't have this comic, you're missing one of the truly great oddities in comic book history:    

Panel To Panel’s Jaime Hernandez promo

Paneltopanel.net is offering a signed edition of Jaime Hernandez's THE EDUCATION OF HOPEY GLASS. Not only do they come with an exclusive bookplate, but everyone who purchases a copy before June 1 is entered in a drawing to win the bookplate's original art. Runner-up gets a complete set of L&R Vol. II #1-20. Not bad at all.

Steve Ditko at MoCCA Festival?!?

“STRANGE & STRANGER: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO” to debut at the MOCCA Art Festival (June 7/8th). {mosimage} Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce that Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko – the first critical retrospective of Steve Ditko, the co-creator and original artist of the Amazing Spider-Man – will make its much-anticipated debut on Saturday June 7th, 2008 at the MoCCA Comics Art Festival. The author, Blake Bell, will be on hand both days at MoCCA to sign copies of the book and will debut his slide show presentation on Ditko’s work as part of the festival’s…