"White Block Quadrupeds" is the latest limited-edition fine art print from Jim Flora Art, based on a Flora painting from the early 1940s. More info here.
Daily links: 3/2/09
• Review: Eric teased it; now read the New York Times Book Review review of Supermen! • Review: Rob Clough examines Jules Feiffer's Explainers • Review: Rob Clough again, this time reveling in Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman • Review: Mania gives The Wolverton Bible an "A" (last item on the page) • Review: At The SF Site, Rick Klaw says The Wolverton Bible is "amazing" (see sidebar) • Review: Graphic Novel Reporter says Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville by Ted Stearn is "a joy to read" (and favorably compares it to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) •…
Artist Bio – C. Tyler
{mosimage}C. Tyler is an award winning comic book artist/writer whose autobiographical stories reflect her struggles as an artist, worker, wife and mother. The legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb describes her work as having “…the extremely rare quality of genuine, authentic heart. Hers are the only comics that ever brought me to the verge of tears.” Cartoonist Chris Ware refers to her as “…one of the true greats of the original Underground Comix generation.” Born on the north side of Chicago in the 1950s, Carol Tyler was the middle child in a working class Catholic family. Taught by nuns from K-12, she…
Booklist Top 10
Booklist has announced their list of "Top 10 Graphic Novels: 2009." We're pleased and honored to have two of our finest, tannest books on it:
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #444
{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…
Drinky Crow’s Maakies Treasury: Previews, Pre-Order
Now available for preview and pre-order: Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury, the latest compilation of Maakies strips by Tony Millionaire. This volume, designed as a sequel to Premillennial Maakies (and to introduce fans of TV's The Drinky Crow Show to the source material), collects the second 5 years of the strip (previously reprinted in the volumes When We Were Very Maakies, The House at Maakies Corner and Der Struwwelmaakies) in a single thick volume splendidly designed by Chip Kidd. This book is scheduled to be in stock in early March and in stores approximately 4 weeks later. View a photo &…
Webcomics update for 2/27/09
Friday is new webcomics day! First up, such language in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan! Chubby's plan turns out to be surprisingly sensible in this week's installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. (Have you been counting how many pages we've posted?) The time-honored rituals of Rocky and his pals pervade our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's hilarious Swedish smash-hit Rocky, updated Monday-Friday!
Daily links: 2/27/09
• Review: French-Canadian site L'Autblog says Ripple by Dave Cooper is "a fascinating little book" according to the Google translation • Blurb: Richard Cowdry is the latest blogger excited about Humbug • Interview: The Pulse talks to future Mome-inista Noah Van Sciver • Interview: The link for this Newsarama interview with C. Tyler isn't working at the moment; hopefully it'll be back up later
Preview downloads: now for everyone!
We hope you've been enjoying our downloadable PDF excerpts of recent releases! Last year we posted a group of these previews that were available only to folks who are registered and logged in to the website. We've decided to make all of these previous excerpts available to the general public as well (just as we did with our webcomics a few weeks ago)! Gorge yourself on juicy chunks from over 20 of our 2008 releases, including some of our most lauded and talked-about titles like Bottomless Belly Button, The Education of Hopey Glass, Explainers, and Strange and Stranger: The World…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #443
{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…
