This week's issue of OC Weekly features this Jaime Hernandez depiction of inequitably distributed afterglow — plus more sexy comics by others inside. (Hat tip: Entrecomics.) [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]
Angelman by Nicolas Mahler – page 11
We are proud and pleased to be publishing our first Nicolas Mahler book (a full-color hardcover, no less) in April 2012: Angelman. We are serializing the first quarter of the book with the rest of our weekly digital comics… at the end of which, you will be so absorbed in Angelman’s travails that you will have no choice but to pick up the book. Enjoy!
Up All Night by Michael Kupperman – Captain Futuristic
This weekly strip by Snake ‘n’ Bacon and Tales Designed to Thrizzle creator Michael Kupperman runs exclusively here on the Fantagraphics website.
Daily OCD: 2/9/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Feature: Jill Russell of KOMO TV's Seattle Pulp blog spotlights Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 and talks to author Pat Thomas: "The main lesson Thomas takes away from this project is that young people are a forced to be reckoned with. The average age of a Black Panther was just 22. 'How many young people do you know are leading national movements?' he asked. 'When people have been stripped of their pride or ostracized too much, they will eventually fight back.'" • Review: "For fans of comics from the…
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes (New Printing) – Previews, Pre-Order
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (8th Printing) by Daniel Clowes 144-page black & white 7.5" x 11" softcover • $19.95ISBN: 978-1-56097-116-0 Ships in: February 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Like a Velvet Glove… collects all 10 chapters of Eightball's terrifying and fascinating journey into madness that makes Twin Peaks look like Teletubbies. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into the heel of Clay's foot; a horny over-the-hill suburban…
Daily OCD Extra: Nancy Is Happy in Bookforum
On the occasion of our impending release of Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945 by Ernie Bushmiller, our pal and colleague Ben Schwartz has penned an excellent essay on the strip for the current issue of Bookforum. Do get a copy if you can; click the scan above for a larger, legible version and we've taken the liberty of excerpting the parts where he heaps praise on the book below: "In this, the reading public has a rare opportunity. No, make that a rare challenge — to read Bushmiller without the benefit of recontextualization of any sort. The fact that…
Daily OCD: 2/8/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "And now, Fantagraphics has packaged some of the best movie parodies in this ripely-colored book [The Sincerest Form of Parody]. But these aren't Mad comics. They're the imitators which popped up on newsstands in the 1950s — comic books like Whack, Nuts!, Crazy, Bughouse and Unsane…. Most of the comics in the pages of this book are understandably dated for today's web-weaned generation who may have never heard of I, Jury ('My Gun Is the Jury by Melvie Splane'), What's My Line? ('What's My Crime?'), or Come Back, Little Sheba ('Come Back Bathsheba'),…
New Comics Day 2/8/12: Fritz the Cat, Young Romance
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 Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb 96-page black & white 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-480-1 Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby's Romance Comics by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon; edited by Michel Gagné 208-page full-color 7.75" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN:…
Is That All There Is? by Joost Swarte – Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Is That All There Is? by Joost Swarte 144-page full-color 7" x 9.5" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-510-5 See Previews / Order Now Order this book and receive this FBI•MINI comic shown at left as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last. By appropriating and subverting Tintin creator Hergé’s classic “clear line” style, Joost Swarte revitalized European alternative comics in the 1970s with a series of satirical, musically elegant, supremely beautifully drawn short stories — often featuring his innocent, magnificently-quiffed Jopo…
Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 1 – Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 1 by Bill Everett; edited by Blake Bell 240-page full-color 7.25" x 10" hardcover • 39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-488-7 See Previews / Order Now The 1939 creation of the Sub-Mariner for the first issue of Marvel Comics assures Bill Everett a place in history. Co-creating Daredevil, the Man Without Fear, for Marvel Comics in 1964 gave Everett a link to one of the most popular superheroes of the past 50 years. And producing over 400 additional pages of superhero-related work in the…
