{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 links: 2/4/09
• Excerpt: Publishers Weekly has an 8-page preview of Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson • Interview: The Daily Cross Hatch polishes off their 3-parter with Lilli Carré • Things to see: The Daily Cartoonist has links to two vintage Jules Feiffer animations • Things to see: From Jim Woodring, sketchbook pages and Manhog's back half under assault • Things to see: On the Covered blog, Jon Adams's version of Woodring's Frank #1
Carpooling with Mr. Schulz
YouTube link. Found via The Daily Cartoonist.
Connective Tissue outtake
Head over to Bob Fingerman's Art Blog Thinger to see the full-size version. Connective Tissue is at the printer and due this Spring.
Preview video/slideshow: Humbug
Here it is: the first public look at our long-awaited Humbug collection! This two-volume slipcased hardcover set assembles the never-before-collected, complete, original 11-issue run (1957-58) of the satirical magazine conceived and edited by Harvey Kurtzman and created by Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee (Kurtzman's MAD magazine cohorts one and all) and Arnold Roth. Click here if the embedded slideshow doesn't appear above, or to open a larger version in a new window. And if you haven't already, you'll also want to check out our exclusive feature "The Production Evolution of a Humbug Page."
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #425
{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…
New Peter Kuper comic
Thanks to Peter Kuper for providing us with his recent award-winning 2-page strip "Ceci n'est pas une comic" (originally published in the Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere around the world) to post in our Online Comics section. The last 8 years certainly did seem surreal, didn't they? Click here to read.
“Ceci n’est pas une comic” by Peter Kuper
This comic originally ran in the Virginia Quarterly Review and various magazines and newspapers throughout Europe and Latin America, was awarded a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators in the sequential arts category, and was selected to appear in Best American Comics 2010. Our thanks to Peter Kuper (www.peterkuper.com) for providing it to us to post here. {mosimage} {mosimage} You may also be interested in: {product_snapshot:id=1330,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=560,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=179,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=700,true,false,true,left} All books featuring Peter Kuper
Daily links: 2/3/09
• List: Another day, another Top 10 list with Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button on it, this time Laura Hudson's "Best Graphic Novels of 2008" • Blurb: Trendhunter™ fingers The Wolverton Bible as the next hot thing • Blurb: ComicNews spotlights our collection of Sam's Strip by Mort Walker & Jerry Dumas
Preview video/slideshow: The Comics Journal #296
The upcoming February 2009 issue of The Comics Journal is our annual Best of the Year issue, featuring interviews with the year's most acclaimed cartoonists: Lynda Barry, Frank Quitely, Dash Shaw and Mike Luckovich. Plus best-of lists from dozens of comics pros, a preview of C. Tyler's new book, a gallery of new Finnish comics, and lots more. Click here if the embedded slideshow doesn't appear above, or to open a larger version in a new window.
