By luck I just happened to blunder across this recent commission by Peter Bagge featuring all yer favorite classic Hate characters rockin' out! See a real big version here. [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]
The 2012 Ultimate Catalog is out!
If you're like Spencer Rothbell here, who tweeted this photo over the weekend, you've already received your 2012 Fantagraphics Ultimate Catalog of Comics in the mail. It's jam-packed with our 2011 releases, a few upcoming 2012 releases, and a bunch of backlist stuff. It also details our exciting FBI•MINI mail-order bonus program, which we announced yesterday. And, of course, there's a handy order form for ordering everything! If you're not already on our mailing list, contact us to request your free copy, and if you just can't wait and/or want to have it on your computer or mobile device, we've…
The Unexpurgated “Swamp Talk” Annotations from Pogo Vol. 1
The edited version of these annotations by R.C. Harvey appears in Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 1 – Through the Wild Blue Wonder by Walt Kelly. – Ed. Swamp TalkSearching for the Obscure amid the Obvious and Vice VersaBy R.C. Harvey alt Kelly is admired — and revered in some quarters (this one, for instance) — for his deft blending of the verbal and visual resources of the comic strip medium for the purposes of vaudevillian slapstick and other irreverences, chiefly political satire. And for much of the quarter-century run of Pogo under Kelly's hand, the strip commented…
Daily OCD: 11/22/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Rick Marschall and Warren Bernard’s Drawing Power is a provocative visual examination of the wonderful world of cartoon advertising…. Marschall and Bernard have mixed an unusual batch of artistic and economic history. After reading this book, you’ll never look at comic strips and capitalism the same way again." – Michael Taube, The Washington Post • Review: "It's a little silly for me to do the full-disclosure tap dance… I'm quoted ten times in Kevin Avery's Paul Nelson biography-collection-tribute, Everything Is an Afterthought, and thanked prominently in the acknowledgments…. [The book is] better than…
Daily OCD: 11/21/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Barks, the artist, is a master cartoonist, drawing lively, expressive characters with a graceful sense of movement. His beautiful, detailed backgrounds plant the ducks in a fully realized world that adds weight to his storytelling…. But besides the entertaining plots, Barks’ appeal is in his characters. He gives his ducks many human frailties and while they usually try to do the right thing, they make mistakes, get angry, frustrated, and even fail. Fantagraphics Books… does its usual high quality work here as well. The design and layout of the book is a handy…
Coming in 2012: The Last Vispo Anthology
Over on the Abstract Comics blog, Andrei Molotiu has leaked word about The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998 – 2008, edited by Crag Hill and Nico Vassilakis and to be published by us in Fall of next year. Above, "Emma," a piece by Nico which accompanied the news. Fantagraphics loyalists may also know Nico as our longtime warehouse/shipping manager, and we've long been proud to boast one of the foremost practitioners of visual poetry, a.k.a. vispo, on our staff, so this book is near and dear to our hearts. Vispo and abstract comics are related disciplines, so readers of…
New Drew Friedman print: Tor Johnson
Drew Friedman's heavenly new portrait of Swedish wrestler-turned-thespian Tor Johnson is now available as a limited-edition fine art print from Drew Friedman Fine Art Prints. Who wouldn't want Tor's floating head decorating their home? No one worth knowing, that's who. In a few months you'll also be able to find this image on the back cover of the new edition of Drew's first comics collection (co-written by his brother Josh) Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental, coming this Spring!
Tony Millionaire’s Yuletide Gallery
This portait of Lou Reed by Tony Millionaire, included in 500 Portraits, is also part of Tony’s “Yuletide Gallery” of original artwork for sale. Why not treat that special someone (and/or yourself) to some lovely Tony artwork for the holidays? If you have a spare twelve-hundred bucks laying around, you're welcome to get me that Yoda piece.
Pogo Vol. 1 sneak peek at PREVIEWSworld
Pogo: Vol. 1 of the Complete Syndicated Comic Strips – Through the Wild Blue Wonder by Walt Kelly is officially released in comic shops this Wednesday, Nov. 23! See this and 4 more sneak-peek pages at PREVIEWSworld.
Things to See: new Rick Altergott comic at VICE
One question we are asked occasionally (but not often enough) is "What's Rick Altergott up to these days?" Well he's serializing a new comic, "Miss Juniper's Dating Disasters," at VICE and here's the freshly-posted Part 2. [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]
