The Raven by Lou Reed and Lorenzo Mattotti 166-page full-color 9" x 9" hardcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-444-3 Ships in: June 2011 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now In 2000, veteran rock 'n' roller Lou Reed, legendary director Robert Wilson, and a cast of singers and actors premiered Reed's musical POEtry in Hamburg's Thalia Theater. An ambitious combination of Edgar Allen Poe's poems and stories and Reeds reinterpretations of same (with a few classic Reed songs such as "Perfect Day" and "The Bed" integrated for good measure, POEtry bridged the centuries to provide a unique vision of beauty and horror for…
Things to See: 6/6/11 Roundup
It's been a while since I had a chance to do one of these… • Jim Woodring's Frank and associates in a piece inspired by Giorgione's painting The Tempest (via Facebook – full size) • Tony Millionaire did this illustration for the Three Guys and a Twelve-Pack podcast; also, an old strip for Screw (I think) • This hilarious portrait by Cathy Malkasian is available as a print — you gotta go check it out just for the title and description, which are also hilarious • A beautiful movie poster illustration and some musician portraits by Matthias Lehmann • Richard Sala…
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Daily OCD: 6/6/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "The creator [of Wandering Son], Shimura Takako, is a well-established manga artist recognized for her LBGT focus, certainly not your usual manga fare. In the series’ debut-in-English, Shimura treats both protagonists’ journeys of self-discovery with gentle honesty; her characters are wide-eyed and adorable, uncertain and searching." – Terry Hong, BookDragon (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program) • Review: "…I was pretty intrigued to see how Jason’s illustration would work with someone else’s writing. The short answer is that it works amazingly well…. The Isle of 100,000 Graves is an inventive and original tale, filled…
The Comics Journal #301 excerpt at TCJ.com: Joe Sacco interview
With the much-anticipated arrival of The Comics Journal #301 about a month away, TCJ.com gives you your first real taste of the issue beyond our photo & video teasers: an excerpt from Gary Groth's interview with Joe Sacco about Footnotes in Gaza. Go, read!
Tammy’s back!
Joyous news for those of us who feared we had seen the last of Tammy Pierce: Esther Pearl Watson reports on Facebook that she's completed the first 120 pages of Unlovable Vol. 3! Will it cover summer vacation at Meemaw's on Lake Texoma or jump to first semester Junior year? I can't tell from these tantalizing glimpses of the work in progress. Esther's always busy with multiple projects so a completion date is unknown, but in the meantime if you haven't experienced Tammy's sophomore year yet, get to it!
Weekend Webcomics for 6/3/11: Kupperman, Weissman & more
Our weekly strips from Kupperman & Weissman, plus links to other strips from around the web: — Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (view at original size): And elsewhere: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Ectiopiary by Hans Rickheit: Maakies by Tony Millionaire (linking to The Rumpus's presentation this week): Mugwhump the Great by Roger Langridge (at Act-i-vate): Smashing Crayons by Steve Brodner: Truth Serum by Jon Adams:
Daily OCD: 6/3/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind is the latest volume dedicated to the celebration of punk — specifically, in this case, punk music from the Pacific Northwest. But unlike its notable forebears…, it complements its substantive oral history and vivid testimonials with an array of arresting visual artifacts — pivotal punk imagery that includes iconic show posters, electrifying performance photographs and heaps of wild costumes and dilapidated guitars — to tell its rambunctious story…. Paradoxically for a volume dedicated to such a proudly ragged and rough-hewn aesthetic, Taking Punk to…
PREVIEWSworld preview-a-rama: Congress of the Animals, Mickey Mouse, Isle of 100,000 Graves
The Diamond PREVIEWSworld website has posted sneak peeks of 3 of our books officially hitting comic shops next Wednesday, June 8! First, see 10 pages and more from Jim Woodring's Congress of the Animals (note that the sketch pages are not included in the final version of the book and spoil a pretty big reveal in the book)… Then, check out 4 exclusive pages from Isle of 100,000 Graves by Jason & Fabien Vehlmann… And finally, take a look at our info-packed promo brochure for Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley by Floyd Gottfredson (you can…
Up All Night by Michael Kupperman – Diner Food
This weekly strip by Snake ‘n’ Bacon and Tales Designed to Thrizzle creator Michael Kupperman runs weekly in the Washington City Paper and here on the Fantagraphics website.
