Your Online Commentary & Diversions for the first day of June '09: • Review: "Holy cats!… Wolverton's illustrations [in The Wolverton Bible], done in the same unmistakable, stippled style that characterized his grotesqueries, show off the grim, the violent, and the destructive in the Old Testament, putting the blood and guts in the spotlight. The result is like no illustrated Bible you've ever seen… This is a side of Wolverton I never suspected, but it is perfectly him, humorous, grisly, mad and wonderful." – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing • Review/Profile: "…Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson… was for me like discovering…
Clowes covers The New Yorker
Daniel Clowes envisions the future of print on the cover of the new issue of The New Yorker. You might have heard a tiny bit of buzz about the 11-page excerpt of Crumb's Book of Genesis in the issue, too.
The Fletcher Hanks Experience at MoCCA & on WFMU
Pummelin' Paul Karasik provides details of the Fletcher Hanks-travaganza planned for this coming weekend's MoCCA Festival in NYC: "The Fletcher Hanks Experience" will debut at MoCCA Comics festival on Saturday, June 6 at 5:00. "The Fletcher Hanks Experience" is a safari over the craggy landscape of the psyche of Fletcher Hanks. Combining archival audio of Hanks' son with comic book panels, Paul Karasik takes the audience into the mind of the man whom R. Crumb called, "A Twisted dude". PLUS: "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!" the 2nd of volume of collected Hanks tales will also debut at…
Conan O’Brien says Michael Kupperman’s comics are a Must
Conan O'Brien takes a break from preparing to take over The Tonight Show tonight to sing the praises of Michael Kupperman's comics in the pages of this week's Entertainment Weekly: Congratulate Michael in person this weekend at the MoCCA Festival! The new Thrizzle hardcover will be on hand.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #528
{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…
Mahler & Newgarden talk Funny
At the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, on Weds. June 3 at 6:30 PM (note that this overlaps with Jason's Low Moon signing at The Strand in NYC): 6:30 PM WHAT IS "FUNNY" ANYWAY? A comics conversation with award-winning cartoonists Nicolas Mahler and Mark Newgarden.Moderated by Mark David Nevins. Join us for a lively and visually rich conversation with Nicolas Mahler and Mark Newgarden, in which we will explore how comics work, the marketplaces for graphic humor, where these cartoonists get their ideas, and, yes, the answer to the eternal question, "What is 'Funny'?" ACFNYReservations required. The Ephemerist has more details….
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #527
{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…
All and Sundry – Introduction by Paul Hornschemeier
{product_snapshot:id=1586,true,false,true,right} This book began by looking for something. More precisely, it began by sorting through flat file drawers filled with artwork, in an attempt to determine what pieces I should select for my first proper gallery show. I stacked the work in piles: these are probably good candidates, those are good, but don’t seem to fit the general feel of the show. I was looking for only thirty or so pieces of artwork. I was removing hundreds of pieces of Bristol board from the drawers. It slowly dawned on me that the “good but doesn’t fit” pile was quite massive….
Daily OCD: 5/28/09
Once more, Online Commentary & Diversions goes on vacation tomorrow. • Profile/Review: Cincinnati Magazine talks to C. Tyler about You'll Never Know Book 1: A Good and Decent Man, calling it "a dense, triangulated tale (war and madness; father/daughter coming-of-age; familial reconciliation) made accessible by Tyler’s detailed yet straightforward storytelling and impeccable renderings… Switching artistic styles to connote the passage of time, Tyler’s graphic narrative deftly moves between her childhood and her father’s war experiences, between dream sequences, real time, psychology, and family lore. The book transcends mere documentation; it is a valentine sealed in genealogy, footnoted in history." •…
Luba: Collectors Edition update
If you're one of the first 10 people who ordered the exclusive Luba: Collectors Edition (signed, numbered, and sketched in by Gilbert Hernandez, with a special deluxe cloth binding), your copy is on its way to you this week. Gilbert is sending them back to us in batches of 10, so the next 10 orders will go out as soon as we get the next shipment from him. Only 30 copies exist and they are nearly all spoken for, so if you've been on the fence about ordering it, get off that fence and make your order now! It's the…
