Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…[T]he fifth [Popeye] collection, "Wha's a Jeep?", is just as vital and zippy as any of [the] earlier books, particularly in the daily strips…. This is great stuff — as I've said before, Segar's Popeye is not just one of the great American comics, it's one of the great comedy/adventure works of all time, full of brawling, joking, inexhaustible life." – Andrew Wheeler, The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. • Review: The Comics Journal's R. Fiore on David B.'s The Littlest Pirate King, in its entirety: "Speaking of comics that would make…
Comic-Con 2011 Thursday panels
Comic-Con has announced their programming for Thursday July 21, the first full day of the convention, and here are the panels to circle in your program or plug into your smartphone app or scribble on the back of your hand (we will, of course, give a complete run-down along with our signing schedule and more info in the near future): 12:30-1:30 Spotlight on Bill Schelly— Comic-Con special guest Bill Schelly (The Golden Age of Comic Fandom, The DC Archives) is a leading fandom and comics historian. Moderator Gary Brown interviews Bill about his work, with special emphasis on his latest…
Coming in December: Flannery O’Connor: The Cartoons
(not final cover) News has broken over the last few days via The Guardian and now The A.V. Club about our impending publication of Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons, collecting the author's seldom-seen visual work from her student days. The Guardian's Peter Wild writes: "Cut from linoleum with oil-based ink applied to the ridges, the drawings are rudimentary but charming, a stripped down version of what Marjane Satrapi did in Persepolis. What's clear, though, is the perspective of the outsider, which O'Connor refined in her debut novel Wise Blood and stories such as 'A Good Man is Hard to Find.' ……
Video: Jim Woodring at Elliott Bay Book Co.
Jim Woodring's Congress of the Animals by gavlees For those who couldn't make it to Jim Woodring's slideshow talk about his new graphic novel Congress of the Animals at Elliott Bay Book Company last week, here's video of the whole presentation, shot by our own Ian Burns and hosted by our good pal Gavin Lees. (Pardon the brief commercial message.) Gavin provides some thoughtful comments on the talk over at his Graphic Eye blog. The insight Jim provides into his work is fascinating, there are some previously-unseen preparatory sketches included in the slideshow, and Jim left us all wanting more…
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Follow-up to Newave seeking submissions
For those wondering whether there would be a follow-up to our well-received 2010 anthology Newave! The Underground Mini-Comix of the 1980s, good news! Editor Michael Dowers is now seeking submissions for two more volumes with a wider chronological reach. Here's the announcement, as posted at the mini-comics community site Poopsheet Foundation: This series will cover mini comics from the dawn of time (early 70's) to the present. Since Newave has already been covered, the main focus will be on the 1990's to the present although earlier minis will be covered too. The books will be the same size (only more…
Things to See: fun with Nate Neal’s Sanctuary
Nate Neal presents two stories related to his graphic novel The Sanctuary in the "Comix-O-Matic" video format: the one-pager "Lor Mok Kuri," and "Cha-Ul Nu Mon-Mon," the prequel story which appears in Mome Vol. 21. Lor Mok Kuri from Nate Neal on Vimeo. Cha-Ul Nu Mon Mon from Nate Neal on Vimeo. And here's a pretty fantastic piece of fan art drawn for Nate by fellow Mome contributor Eleanor Davis!
Daily OCD: 7/6/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…Wilfred Santiago… has done something very extraordinary and that's create a graphic novel that will eventually stand the test of time. If there was ever a novel that every Latino/Latina (baseball fan or not), comic book fan, family or anyone who volunteers/works in nonprofit must own in their library, it's 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente. Am I exaggerating? No, being the comic book nerd that I am, I haven't been this moved from a novel since I read Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns…. While Roberto Clemente was a fantastic baseball…
New Comics Day 7/6/11: Queen of the Black Black, Wandering Son
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. Queen of the Black Black by Megan Kelso 168-page black & white 7" x 9.25" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-459-7 "A new edition of the long-out-of-print collection of Megan Kelso's early work, mostly from her self-published Girlhero series. I love Kelso's stuff — her book Artichoke Tales from last year is…
Comic-Con debut scoop at Robot 6
Oh lord, here comes Comic-Con! Robot 6's J.K. Parkin runs down the 20+ titles we'll be debuting (or at least selling pre-release copies of) at the big show in San Diego. Bring your wheelbarrow! (Note that there's still a question-mark on one or two of those titles pending confirmation from the printers. We'll be posting a definitive list of debuts, our signing schedule, and more information as the date approaches.)
