Drew Friedman captures a watershed moment in comics history. Get the whole story on this piece on Drew's Drawger blog. Damn, I need to subscribe to that.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #449
{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: La educación de Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez
La educación de Hopey Glass By Jaime Hernandez Read Love and Rockets en Español! This translated edition of The Education of Hopey Glass comes to us from our colleagues at La Cupula in Spain. We're pleased to offer this treat for L&R collectors and Spanish-reading fans in the U.S. (and around the world)! See the description in Spanish below: Maggie está casi ausente en esta última recopilación de Love and Rockets ya que Jaime Hernandez se centra en Hopey, la amiga de toda la vida de Maggie, y en su ex novio Ray. Y además, un vasto reparto de secundarios:…
Daily links: 3/6/09
• Review: Bookgasm says of Supermen!: "…any self-respecting comics fan is going to eat [these stories] up like a Saturday-morning bowl of sugared cereal … and slurp up any leftover milk. If there’s a better gift of comics history this year… well, I’d no doubt fall in love with that one, too… Fantagraphics has done an amazing job in assembling this unique and colorful curio." • Review: Comics Worth Reading gives "a big tip of the hat to the fine folks at Fantagraphics for getting Sam's Strip back into print after all these decades. As usual, they have spared no…
First look: All and Sundry
Well, second look if you follow Paul Hornschemeier's blog. I'll just steal Paul's text outright: "Arriving in stores in the fall of this year, All and Sundry is a collection of various illustrations, posters, comics, and drawings that have been scattered in publications and galleries all over the world, but never collected in a single volume. This will include the strip currently running in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, as well as the sixteen page comic recently drawn for the album Yonlu. The book will be rounded out by over one hundred scans from sketchbooks, documenting weirdness that has…
Webcomics update for 3/6/09
Friday is new webcomics day! This week: a surprise twist! First up, a theological mystery is solved in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan! It might be time for a new plan in this week's installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 50-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. Wait, what? Yes, the formerly 32-page story has expanded by 18 more pages and will continue through July! WHAMMY! More cutting observation of modern life and relationships, plus some papier-maché, in our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's hilarious…
Look maw, we’re on the teevee
Seattle TV station KING5's "Evening Magazine" program presents a picturesque profile of the Georgetown neighborhood, with clips of Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery and sound bites from manager/curator Larry Reid. I gotta visit that vintage telephone museum someday.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #448
{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…
Signed bookplate update: Esther Pearl Watson
Starting now, when you order Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable Vol. 1 direct from us, you can choose to receive the exclusive signed bookplate pictured above as a free bonus (and why wouldn't you?)! Supplies are limited and the usual conditions and caveats apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!
Daily links: 3/5/09
• Review/profile: The Oregonian says that Most Outrageous by Bob Levin is "The most challenging and thought-provoking book I read last year… unforgettable… among the great essays on human frailty," and discusses how the commercial success of The Complete Peanuts enables us to publish more challenging work • Review: Brick Weekly says of The Lagoon by Lilli Carré, "Carré’s cartooning is purely excellent, evolving nicely from her earlier work and pulling you into a world of vividly drawn characters and lush environments" (scroll past the video game review) • Previews: Whateves looks at The Wolverton Bible • Interviews: Robot 6…
