{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 9/4/09
Start your Labor Day weekend off with some webcomics! The next panel is an explosion of sound effects in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan… This week it's the penultimate installment of Steven Weissman's "Blue Jay," an epic 51-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures…. And Rocky tries fishing and goes to see Ghost World in our Monday-Friday Rocky strips by Martin Kellerman. Enjoy!
Daily OCD: 9/4/09
Have a great holiday weekend in the USA; Online Commentary & Diversions updates will resume on Tuesday. • Review: "If there is a 'true truth' in relation to Jason it is that the Nordic author can resist no genre. From Western noir to science fiction of manners, everything passes through his own personal, non-transferable filter to offer these stories, parsimonious in words but full of 'depth charge.' Low Moon… is no exception to this maxim." – Alita Cómics (translated from Spanish) • Review: Chris Mautner of Robot 6 says Nikoline Werdelin's story "Because I Love You So Much" in From…
Smoke Signal 2 out now
The second issue of this oversized broadsheet newspaper comics anthology (take that, Wednesday Comics) published by Desert Island is out now. Cover by Dash Shaw, with strips by Gabrielle Bell, Michael Kupperman, Frank Santoro, our own Jason T. Miles, and over 30 more contributors. Available for free in person at Desert Island in Brooklyn or $3 postpaid.
Abstract Comics panel discussion at MoCCA Sept. 12
Saturday, Sept. 12, 4 p.m. 2009 Abstract Comics Panel Discussion Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members Featuring Derik Badman Richard Hahn Patrick McDonnell Andrei Molotiu Anders Pearson Henrik Rehr Alexey Sokolin Join MoCCA for a discussion about Abstract Comics: what they are, who is making them and why. Abstract Comics explores what is essential to the medium of comics – panel rhythm, page layout, the sequential arrangement of formal elements – and tells us what comics are and where they can go. This talk is held in conjunction with the exhibition Silent Pictures at James Gallery, CUNY and the…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #573
click to enlarge 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…
Daily OCD: 9/3/09
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Monte Schulz proves that his father was not the only talented storyteller in the family…. Monte has carved out his own stake with This Side of Jordan, the first novel of a planned trilogy…. Even though there are moments of brutal violence in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, Jordan is more about the young man facing his future with uncertain terms…. You’ll find yourself enraptured by his style, fittingly written in honor of his father." – Bruce Grossman, Bookgasm • Review: "Overall, I liked West Coast Blues quite a bit, enough so that it…
Ivan Brunetti covers The New Yorker
Well looky here, the new New Yorker has a cover illustration by Ivan Brunetti!
99-Cent Comics + More Clearance Items!
We're cleaning house! We've just marked down 239 comic book back issues to a low, low $0.99 — up to 80% off the cover price! Load up on Hate and other Peter Bagge classics, Love and Rockets and related titles by the Hernandez Brothers, Jim Woodring's Frank and Jim, our great '90s anthology Zero Zero, some great old obscurities and much, much more! Browse 'em all in their own category right here. And it doesn't stop there! We've also marked down over 75 additional books 1/3 to 1/2 off and added them to our Clearance Sale and Closeout Deals categories…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #572
{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…
