We didn't forget the Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "The Lagoon is a horror story, if a low-key one; like much of the best horror it makes the connection between horror and the absurd… [Lilli] Carré's sinuous, snaking treatment of sound provides a through-line… but it still feels disconnected in ways that few writers today are gutsy enough to attempt. The overall effect is like Clive Barker fed through a twee filter. This'll stick to you." – Sean T. Collins • Review: "Who knew that Prince Valiant, a comic strip I always assumed appeared next to the word 'boredom'…
Booth No. 1732: your second stop at Comic-Con
After you stop at our Comic-Con booth (#1716), head down the aisle to #1732 and check out the many awesome things for sale from Johnny Ryan, Jordan Crane, Steven Weissman, Buenaventura Press, Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson! We've already spotlighted Jordan's and Johnny's new goods… Among the many awesome things Mark and Esther will have for sale will be this limited deluxe edition of Unlovable Vol. 1 with a glow-in-the-dark silkscreened dustjacket and the Pretty in Pink-style Tammy Pierce silkscreen print (also glow-in-the-dark!) shown below. (Not going to Comic-Con? Don't despair, you can order them on Mark and Esther's…
First looks: All and Sundry, This Side of Jordan
Look, it's my desk, with advance copies of two brand new books on it: All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009 by Paul Hornschemeier (you can pre-order it from us and check out a preview here) and This Side of Jordan by Monte Schulz (with cover art by Al Columbia; no pre-order yet, but lots more info about the book here). Both will be debuting at Comic-Con next week with the authors in attendance!
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #549
{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…
Now in stock: Skin Deep (New Softcover Edition) by Charles Burns
Skin Deep (New Softcover Edition) By Charles Burns Now back in print in a new, affordable 2009 softcover edition! Charles Burns is the creator of the landmark horror graphic novel Black Hole (in development as a major motion picture directed by David Fincher as of this writing). Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby) of a series of three volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to Black Hole. Skin Deep includes Burns's popular character Dog Boy (a red-blooded all-American boy with the transplanted heart of a dog) and the classic strip "Dog Days," in which a…
Now in stock: The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 9 (New Printing)
The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 9 (New Printing) By Robert Crumb Now back in print in a new softcover edition! Robert Crumb's long day's journey into the '70s continues with this volume of classic material from 1972 and 1973. The sunny psychedelic era is a fading memory for the counterculture, and Crumb's work of that period reflects a darker, more introspective artist at work. This volume includes Crumb's first collaboration with Harvey Pekar — a long partnership that would help turn Pekar into an alternative comics star. This politically incorrect volume spotlights some of Crumb's most outrageous strips, including the…
Daily OCD: 7/16/09
Today the floodgates of Online Commentary & Diversions have opened: • Review: "The way he turns narratives into advertisements, ends stories with some wacko randomly barging through a window, and abruptly drops gags only to pick them up and drop them again suggests that [Michael] Kupperman takes his cues from the surreality of the small screen — especially Monty Python's Flying Circus and its animated heirs on the Cartoon Network… Tales Designed to Thrizzle [Vol. 1] is a monument not only to silliness, but to craft… [T]he surreality of Monty Python becomes the surreality of Un Chien Andalou or Kafka….
Rick Altergott Vice Love
Rick Altergott fans rejoice! Rick has a brand new strip for Vice Magazine, and Nick Gazin interviews him too, saying "his work celebrates the kind of people that make your vagina curdle." See what Rick has to say about Frazetta, family, and fascinating creeps. Sample quote: "I seem to get ideas for sleazy content only, although I enjoy and appreciate all types of stories. I'm a pretty conservative person so it is weird that I have a reputation as a purveyor of gutter material."
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #486
{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…
Daily OCD: 7/15/09
A brief yet interesting installment of Online Commentary & Diversions: • Profile: "I loved comic books and, if you read enough of them, they’d give you a sort of caffeine high." – Jules Feiffer, in a lengthy conversation with NYC Graphic's Christopher Irving • Profile: Norway.com puts together the scoop on native son Jason and Low Moon • Things to see: Dylan Horrocks presents his story from Dirty Stories Vol. 2 online for your reading enjoyment (NSFW) • Things to read: A great essay by Tim Kreider for The New York Times "Happy Days" blog • Staff: New vispoems and…
