Fantagraphics Blog Mike Baehr

Two weeks to catch up on! • Percy Gloom changed his Facebook profile picture to this portrait I hadn't seen before • Andrei Molotiu posted a big batch of sketchbook drawings to his blog • A new image from Ben Catmull's current project • Matthias Lehmann shares a few pieces from his current art show and some photos of the installation • Dig Paul Hornschemeier's new logo for the Comedy Bang! Bang! (formerly Comedy Death Ray) podcast/comedy show • A newly-drawn splash page (along with the original version from 15 years ago) by Tim Lane for the upcoming 3rd issue…

The Online Commentary & Diversions hamster wheel started spinning a little too fast, but I think I've got it back under control now: • Feature: For Largehearted Boy's "Book Notes" feature, Wilfred Santiago creates a musical playlist for 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente: "Golden age animation has been a big influence on my work and the graphic novel itself is very musical. It would be interesting to see the shape that it would take as a feature film. So here is what the 21 soundtrack would sound like." (The following links are via the Largehearted Boy link above:) •…

Shannon Wheeler recently tweeted this photo of his drawing table with pages in progress of our upcoming book Oil & Water. Learn more about the book at the link.

At Comics Alliance, David Brothers throws the spotlight on our ongoing series of Jacques Tardi translations, presenting 7 pages from The Arctic Marauder and writing "Jacques Tardi is a living legend in France, but is somewhat obscure over here. Thanks to Fantagraphics and their aggressive reprint schedule, Jacques Tardi is finally getting a proper American catalog…. The Arctic Marauder isn't what you think it is. I came into it with only the barest idea of what it would feature (high-sea antics, mystery, old-school diving suits), and while it fulfilled all those expectations, it went on to twist what I was…

Tim Kreider doesn't mince words — or images — in his opinion on the British royal family in the latest ruling of Matt Taibbi's Supreme Court of Assholedom at Rolling Stone. (Taibbi also notes: "I would be remiss if I didn’t remind readers who like Tim Kreider’s drawings to check out his new book, the appropriately-named Twilight of the Assholes , a kind of epic review of the later Bush years. My own mother picked up this book when visiting me not long ago and at first I thought I should probably take it away from her before she started…

Listen to internet radio with Mr Media Interviews on Blog Talk Radio Daily OCD Extra: Wilfred Santiago was the guest on Bob Andelman's Mr. Media interview program on BlogTalkRadio yesterday, talking about his new graphic novel 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente. Listen via the embedded player above or download the MP3 here.

Johnny Ryan has a horrorlarious new comic up at Vice — read it!

The new issue of Booklist contains a review of Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer Vol. 1: The War in the Pacific, excerpted below: "Although the wartime setting of the strip makes it inherently more serious than Wash Tubbs — the Japanese troops, even as racially caricatured as they are here, are a deadlier foe than the often-buffoonish antagonists of the earlier strip — Buz Sawyer features the same seamless blend of derring-do and humor, both in its story lines and in Crane’s economical, slightly cartoonish artwork, which had made Wash Tubbs one of the most popular strips of the era and…

Our weekly strips from Kupperman (who notes that "Moon 69" will resume next week) & Weissman, plus two weeks worth of 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: Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Ectiopiary by Hans Rickheit: Lucky by Gabrielle Bell: Maakies by Tony Millionaire: What happens when Tony is too drunk to draw: Mugwhump the Great by Roger Langridge (at Act-i-vate): The Pain — When…

Daily OCD Extra (the "O" in this case standing for "offline"): Pick up the June 2011 issue of Maximum Rocknroll for a feature interview with Zack Carlson & Bryan Connolly about their book Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. Support print zines!