King of the Flies Vol. 1: Hallorave By Mezzo & Pirus 64-page full-color 9" x 12.5" hardcover • $18.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-320-0 Ships in February 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Set in a suburb that is both nowhere and everywhere, King of the Flies is a glorious bastard, combining the intricacy and subtlety of the best European graphic novels with a hyperdetailed, controlled noir style derived from the finest American cartoonists. Mezzo and Pirus, previously best known in Europe for a series of cynical, brutal gangster stories, have abandoned their guns and gals for this cycle of suburban stories, but…
Webcomics update for 1/22/10
Oops, your Friday webcomics update slipped into early Saturday… Your second of three bar gags in a row in this week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson… …Blecky lays down the law in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan…. …and is it just me or does Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman just keep getting better and better?
Daily OCD: 1/22/10
A quick Online Commentary & Diversions update to close out the week: • List: Popmatters names Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box one of The Best of Books 2009: Non-Fiction: "This awesome picture book… [is] filled with a delightfully odd array of vintage video covers… VHS cassettes may be treated like toxic waste in the age of the Blu-ray, but Portable Grindhouse offers that micro minority who still remain faithful to their trusty VCR a long overdue reprieve." – Ronald Hart • Review: "Half the fun of [The Troublemakers] is trying to figure out just who is getting…
The House of No by Derek Van Gieson – Jan. 22, 2010
Rejected New Yorker cartoons by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson, added weekly. Visit Derek’s website for more of his work, and look for his accepted strips and illustrations in the pages of the New Yorker. {mosimage}
Jon Vermilyea print show in Brooklyn
Мишка presents: GOBLIN – A print series by Jon Vermilyea! 350 BroadwayBrooklyn, NY Opening party Thursday, Janurary 28th, 7-10 pm. Limited edition Goblin prints and T-shirts will be for sale!
Brooklyn Women in Comics panel discussion
Join Jessica Abel, Gabrielle Bell, and Jillian Tamaki for a panel discussion with Publishers Weekly's Calvin Reid on Jan. 28 at the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, at 10 Grand Army Plaza, in the Dweck Center, at 7:00 pm.
Daily OCD: 1/21/10
Past, present and future in today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Library Journal picks "Trina Robbins’s glam grab bag of Nell Brinkley serials," The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913–1940, as the best reprint on their Best Graphic Novels 2009 list •List: Thanks to Zack Soto for naming West Coast Blues by Tardi & Manchette, Prison Pit: Book 1 by Johnny Ryan, and Pim & Francie by Al Columbia amongst his Favorite Books of 2009 (via) • Review: "Imagine then what yesterday — or today's — right wingers would say about The Great Anti-War Cartoons……
Now in stock: Hotwire Comics Vol. 3
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Hotwire Comics Vol. 3 By various artists; edited by Glenn Head The Harvey and Eisner nominated anthology of action, thrills, chills and trangression is back with a third volume! Anything goes in Hotwire, eschewing literary high-mindedness for a pure, gut-wrenching viscerality that you can tune in and rest your brain on after a long day. Hotwire the third leaps off the page from the get-go with David Sandlin’s “Infernal Combustion,” about boozing it up in a broke-down caddy, and Tim Lane’s bit of freight-hopping grit, “Spike.” Underground comics legend Mary Fleener…
Now in stock: Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1961-1962 (Vol. 6)
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1961-1962 (Vol. 6) By Hank Ketcham Dennis vaults into the 1960s with his anarchic spirit still intact. As always, this book is a series of unrelated panel gags (with the exception of one week-long story involving Dennis’s mild-mannered grandpa), but what gags! Hank Ketcham is legendary for being one of the most exquisitely skilled cartoonists of all time, and each and every panel is a small masterpiece of design and draftsmanship. Dennis the Menace 1961-1962 features Dennis’s long-suffering parents, the Wilsons, his dog Ruff, his…
Daily OCD: 1/20/10
Brief Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Publishers Weekly names It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi, Weathercraft by Jim Woodring, and Nancy is Happy: Complete Dailies 1942-1945 by Ernie Bushmiller to be among "The Big Graphic Novels of 2010" • Reviewer: At Comics Comics, our own Jason T. Miles geeks out over Steve Ditko • Things to see: At What Things Do, the second installment of Steven Weissman's "This Already Happened" • Things to see: Hey Richard Sala completists, you've got a hammerhead shark toy to track down… that is so rad I can't even stand…
