It's my pleasure to share the following announcement from C. Tyler: Hello Friends! Two things this Fall: Saturday, October 17 from 10 – 4 come see me at the Duke Energy Center in downtown Cincinnati. "Books By the Banks" is the name of the event and I will be there signing my newest book You'll Never Know. Miami International Book Fair , November 8 – 15. I'll be signing all weekend as part of the "Comix Galaxy" and on Friday afternoon giving a talk to education professionals: "What's So Funny About Teaching Comics." I will be hauling all those corny…
New Femke Hiemstra print
Pressure Printing has announced a new limited-edition print titled "Haniwa" from Rock Candy artist Femke Hiemstra. Go to their blog for more info and lots and lots of photos, from art in progress to print in progress to finished product.
Bagge in MN, Oct. 10th – 11th
Peter Bagge sends along the following message: "Attention all Twin-Cities freaks & geeks: I'll be attending this up-coming FallCon, held at the Minnesota Fairgrounds between Mpls and St. Paul this upcoming weekend. So please feel free to show up and spend all your hard-earned money on my useless crap! Hope to see you there!" http://midwestcomicbook.com/
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #604
{mosimage} Fritz the Cat meets Jane Austen!?! This mostly autobiographical daily strip details the rudely hilarious travails of a young cartoonist and his layabout pals and neurotic girlfriends. Basically, it’s the pottymouthed animal-headed Seinfeld-esque comic strip we’ve all come to love. A smash hit in its native Sweden, presented in English for the first time. Join us Monday through Friday for a new daily strip, with a rolling archive of a week’s worth of strips. “It’s being acclaimed as the funniest Swedish comic of our time, but it’s more than that. Rocky is the long awaited generation novel that no…
Webcomics update for 10/2/09
It's crazy Friday nite webcomics synchronicity — two of this week's strips feature diet tips! Blecky's been picking hers up from Southeast Asian folktales in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan…. …while Chubby takes a traditional American approach in this week's strip from Steven Weissman's Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures… …and we break with the theme with a trip to Norway and more deep thinking in our Monday-Friday Rocky strips by Martin Kellerman. Enjoy!
Daily OCD: 10/2/09
Friday Online Commentary & Diversions fun: • Quote of the week: "Right at the outset of the show, the con's lasting image was burned in my brain: Kim Thompson and Gary Groth carrying a wooden palette piled high with empty boxes to the exit door by our table. They weren't fucking around. No interns, no 'assistants.' Now that's what I call, 'Keeping it Real'." – from Frank Santoro's SPX report at Comics Comics • Review: "I've gone on record several times here saying how much I love [Jaime Hernandez's] Ti-Girls saga [in Love and Rockets: New Stories] and how it…
What you’re missing
Carol Hernandez is at it again, posting some amazing historical photos on the Love and Rockets/Hernandez Bros. Facebook page, including the above snapshot of J.R. Williams, Robert Crumb, Gilbert Hernandez, and Michael Dougan leaving their marks on the then-new (1989) Fantagraphics delivery van. Also making guest appearances: Hank Ketcham, Dave Stevens, Paul Westerberg, Glenn Danzig, Vampira and many more. If you're not a Facebook fan of L&R, you are MISSING OUT.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #603
{mosimage} Fritz the Cat meets Jane Austen!?! This mostly autobiographical daily strip details the rudely hilarious travails of a young cartoonist and his layabout pals and neurotic girlfriends. Basically, it’s the pottymouthed animal-headed Seinfeld-esque comic strip we’ve all come to love. A smash hit in its native Sweden, presented in English for the first time. Join us Monday through Friday for a new daily strip, with a rolling archive of a week’s worth of strips. “It’s being acclaimed as the funniest Swedish comic of our time, but it’s more than that. Rocky is the long awaited generation novel that no…
Bill Mauldin presentation/book signing with Todd DePastino at Cartoon Art Museum tomorrow
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco welcomes author Todd DePastino on Friday, October 2, 2009 from 7:00 to 9:00pm for a special presentation on the life and art of multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin. This presentation is based on DePastino's excellent and critically acclaimed biography Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front (W.W. Norton, 2008). DePastino is also editor of our complete collection of Mauldin's World War II cartoons, Willie & Joe: The WWII Years. More info here.
Daily OCD: 10/1/09
October, when kingdoms rise, and kingdoms fall, but Online Commentary & Diversions goes on and on: • Review: "If the world of alt-comics feels appealing but intimidatingly vast (what doesn’t these days), MOME is the perfect place to start. … The volume is thick, slick and printed in what looks like Technicolor. An anthology is only as good as the sensibilities of those who compile it, of course, so it’s worth noting that a subscription of MOME equals four issues per year of work culled from the depths by an outfit that not only has keen vision in such matters,…
