That New York Times op-ed from the former Goldman Sachs employee that everyone was talking about yesterday? Illustrated by Mome 22 contributor Victor Kerlow in print and online. Look, you can see part of it on last night's Colbert Report: Enjoy your Colbert Bump, Victor! [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]
Daily OCD: 3/15/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Interview: AlterNet's Emily Wilson talks to Pat Thomas about writing Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975: "I was trying to write a book that was pro-Panthers, but not with an agenda as to what I wanted to say other than to sort of humanize these people. To me they were more than just statues frozen in time; they were people I was hanging out with in current day. I just wanted to capture their humanity in some way. Militancy or their strident side was just one part of it. I…
Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945 by Ernie Bushmiller – Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945 by Ernie Bushmillerintroduction by Daniel Clowes 336-page black & white 8.5" x 8.5" flexibound softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-360-6 See Previews / Order Now A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality. For many years, Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy, with its odd-looking, squat heroine, nearly abstract art, and often super-corny gags, was perceived as the stodgiest, squarest comic strip in the world. Popular with newspaper read- ers, true — but definitely not a strip embraced by comic-strip connoisseurs, like Krazy Kat,…
Daily OCD: 3/14/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Plug: Leonard Maltin gave a very nice shout-out to Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture on his Movie Crazy blog: "This beautifully produced, oversized volume pays tribute to every aspect of Davis’ wide-ranging career, including his movie art, and should please anyone who’s ever admired his amazing work. Samples of sketches and rarely-seen original art sit side-by-side with finished pieces, as well as a biographical essay by Gary Groth and an overview by William Stout." • Review: "All six of the stories in this latest volume [Athos in America] from Europe's eminent purveyor of…
New Comics Day 3/14/12: Complete Crumb 1, Complete Peanuts 17
This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. "The Peanuts and the Crumb are automatic buys for me: the former and the reigning Greatest Living Comics-Maker." – Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle (Expanded Softcover Ed.) by Robert Crumb 208-page black & white/color 8.5" x 11" softcover…
Daily OCD: 3/13/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "For almost 40 years, from Women’s Comix to the Nation, underground comics pioneer Noomin has shared painfully hilarious episodes from the life of DiDi Glitz, who’s partly her alter ego, but mostly a dreadful example of what a woman who’s not hip or self-aware can do to herself. Occasionally exploiting but usually exploited, DiDi is enthusiastically tasteless and (barely) sensitive enough to realize that there’s something missing in her life. Pursuing cheap sex as the only intimacy she can imagine, she’s usually wearing stiletto heels and fishnet stockings, with a blonde beehive wig…
Gary Panter speaketh
Gary Panter Talk from MOCAD on Vimeo. “Gary Panter speaks at MOCAD on March 2, 2012 as part of ‘Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show’ on view February 10-April 29, 2012. “Prolific comic artist and punk art prankster, Gary Panter, has influenced multiple generations of artists. He has created iconic designs for albums by The Screamers, The Residents, and Red Hot Chili Peppers; been involved with seminal LA punk zine/label Slash; created the Jimbo comic, which frequently appeared in Art Spiegelman’s RAW magazine; and, most popularly, designed groundbreaking sets for Pee-wee Herman’s children’s show Pee-wee’s Playhouse in the 1980s.”…
Daily OCD: 3/12/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review (Video): On G4's Fresh Ink Online video podcast, host Blair Butler and guest Sam Humphries look at Is That All There Is? by Joost Swarte; at the 7:50 mark Humphries makes it his #2 pick of the week, saying "I've literally been waiting for this book for 20 years… so my hopes were pretty high and this book does not disappoint at all…. You gotta pick up this book." • Review: "While [Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975] looks like a typical coffee table book, this book does not…
Things to See: Ivan Brunetti covers The New Yorker
Find out the bittersweet autobiographical backstory behind Ivan Brunetti's cover illustration for the new issue of The New Yorker, and a slideshow of Ivan's other New Yorker covers, at the magazine's "Culture Desk" blog. [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]
Things to See: Jaime at work (first peek at new Love and Rockets)
Jaime Hernandez is hard at work inking his pages for Love and Rockets: New Stories #5 (coming this September). Instagram photo via Jaime’s partner Meg.
