Your late Friday Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Jaime [Hernandez]'s entry [in Love and Rockets: New Stories #1]… is like a huge riff on what might have happened if superhero comics started their evolutionary path by focusing on more female-centered concerns instead of testosterone-fueled fisticuffs… Gilbert's contributions are hard to describe, mainly because they are so surreal. They really have to be experienced and interpreted on your own." – John Jakala, Sporadic Sequential • Plug: GrassrootsModern works in a nice mention of Beasts! Book 1 and Book 2 in their spotlight on Tiny Showcase • Preview: Wow Cool gives…
Pollard art for sale
Robert Pollard is having a spring cleaning sale of original collage art, including many pieces featured in our book Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard (the piece above was used for the back cover, for instance). There are unframed pieces and framed pieces starting here.
Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1 by Michael Kupperman – Previews, Pre-Order, Plus
Now available for preview and pre-order: Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1 by Michael Kupperman. The first 4 issues of the smash-hit humor comic series are now collected into this spiffy hardcover volume, with the art upgraded from the original duotone into glorious full color! See why Kupperman is revered by fellow comedy geniuses like Graham Linehan (The IT Crowd), Andy Richter (The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien), and Robert Smigel (Saturday Night Live, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), who provides the book's introduction. This book is scheduled to debut at the MoCCA Art Festival in NYC in June; it…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #512
{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: 5/7/09
Your Daily Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Library Journal recommends Paul Hornschemeier's Mother, Come Home as one of "14 Graphic Novels Honoring Mothers" (in the "Loss" subcategory), calling it "An exquisitely written and beautifully drawn exploration of grief." • Review: "The latest in this anthology series… is what you need to give your really smart adult friends who are starting to enjoy sequential art but don't want to begrime themselves with the whole superheroics rigmarole: Because this is an excellent collection of work (comprising the serious, the funny, the weird, the contemplative, the goofy, and other flavors sublime or…
Low Moon – further previewage
Observe as a tense domestic scene takes an unexpected and decidedly Jason-esque turn in this exclusive 6-page excerpt from Low Moon posted at ICv2.com.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #511
{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…
Pre-order now: Luba – Collectors Edition
Luba: Collectors Edition By Gilbert Hernandez This exclusive, ultra-limited edition (just 30 copies are available) of the new 600-page hardcover Luba omnibus graphic novel features a special, deluxe cloth binding, and each copy will be signed and numbered with an original hand-drawn sketch by Gilbert Hernandez. See photos below — more images will become available when we receive the books back from Gilbert (if the edition does not sell out beforehand). The ultimate collectible for the elite Beto fan, available ONLY direct from Fantagraphics. Note: Despite previous indications that this edition would be a future convention exclusive, we have instead…
Now in stock: Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938 – the imported black & white version
Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938 (Libri Impressi edition) By Hal Foster In February 2008 a Portuguese Prince Valiant fan published a special, English-language black and white edition of the first two years of Prince Valiant, shot from the very best proof sheets and carefully restored. Due to contractual limitations on territory this edition was NEVER made available in the U.S. — until now! By special arrangement with King Features Syndicate and the publisher, Fantagraphics has a little under 300 copies available for mail and website orders. They just arrived in our warehouse. Fantagraphics is the EXCLUSIVE distributors in North America….
Daily OCD: 5/6/09
Your Online Commentary & Diversions for today: • Review: "[Jason] has proven over the years that no character, no genre, no classic plot is safe when he is in the room… Once again, [in Low Moon,] Jason squeezes an abundance of tension from scenes stripped of background noise and faces drained of emotion… [C]ount me among those who feels lucky to return time and again to Jason's cartoons, wondering when and if his winning streak will ever end." – Steve Duin, The Oregonian • Review: "The King of Persia [by Walt Holcombe, collected in Things Just Get Away from You]…
