{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…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #523
{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: 5/21/09
No Online Commentary & Diversions tomorrow if I can help it: I'm taking the day off! • Awards: Congratulations to Mome contributor Eleanor Davis for being nominated for this year's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer award (given out at the Eisner Awards ceremony at Comic Con International) for her excellent Toon Books release Stinky! • Review: "The biggest surprise might be how good these stories are, even if they failed to take off in the way that, say, Superman did… [T]he Notes section at the end, written by editor Greg Sadowski, …is truly fantastic… His studious efforts are worth the…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #522
{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: 5/20/09
Today's hot batch of Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…[T]he furtive griminess that Jason wrings from his stock character designs is impressive to behold… [Y]ou'll enjoy any number of his typical moments of storytelling grace…" – otherwise Tom Spurgeon is unfortunately somewhat sparing in praise for Jason's Low Moon at The Comics Reporter • Review: "Miss [Lasko-Gross]' previous book, Escape from 'Special,' launched her fearless plan to produce an autobiographical trilogy. [A] Mess [of Everything] tackles the high-school years, which involve mean girls, mean boys and plenty of awkward social situations. Each anecdote is super-short with cringeworthy dialogue that…
Paul Hornschemeier, screenprint, Desert Island
Because paraphrasing takes time, here's the scoop ripped straight from Paul's blog, where you should go to see the print in higher-res: Raising awareness one high five at a time: featuring the mouthless, deity-esque Huge Suit with Mister Hidden (who will join Huge Suit in the pages of the upcoming All and Sundry collection [which just went to the printer – Ed.]). I'll be signing this print (and books) when I'm at Brooklyn's own Desert Island on June 5th, prior to joining the throngs of cartoon and comics enthusiasts at MoCCA. Desert Island has the print available for pre-order and…
Humbug art on the block
Boing Boing reports that a fairly substantial collection of original art from Humbug is now up for auction. It's well worth checking out just for the images, even if you're not Uncle or Aunt Moneybags. Of course, you can see more original Humbug art in our Flickr sets here and here. (Thanks to Paul Hornschemeier for the tip.)
Video of Lasko-Gross & Bell at the Strand last night
The ever-tech-savvy Strand Bookstore has posted video of last night's event with Miss Lasko-Gross and Gabrielle Bell. Just click the link in the embedded player below; if some time has passed and the link isn’t on the main screen, click the “Highlights” tab and scroll for it there — or just head over to the Strand website to watch. [Embedded player removed because it was auto-playing a later live event. Please view the video at the link above.] Update: The Strand also has signed editions of Miss’s A Mess of Everything and Gabrielle’s Cecil and Jordan in New York (D&Q)…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #520
{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: 5/19/09
Online Commentary & Diversions of the day: • News: Publishers Weekly has the scoop on RIP, MD, a new series of youth-oriented graphic novels we plan to start publishing next year in collaboration with animation studio Lincoln Butterfield • Review: "[Miss] Lasko-Gross… us[es] a dark and biting humor that both self-deprecates and pokes fun at alterna-teens along the way… The art pulls everything together wonderfully, …and each section receives a beautiful splash page or panel with an embedded title to welcome you into the vignette… Though Fantagraphics has billed A Mess of Everything as the second part of a trilogy,…
