{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…
Things to see (5 of 5): John Hankiewicz
…and to buy: John Hankiewicz is offering three small drawings for sale. Actually there will probably only be two left by the time you read this.
Things to see (4 of 5): Tim Lane
Tim Lane presents a new page from a new story, "Hitchhiker." Read more about it on Tim's blog.
Things to see (3 of 5): Johnny Ryan
Johnny Ryan illustrates the cover of the Cinefamily January/Febuary program. See Johnny's blog for more info.
Things to see (2 of 5): Paul Hornschemeier
Paul Hornschemeier states: Starting [January 5], and for the next seventeen weeks, I'll be contributing a weekly strip in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.The strip is in their "Tragic Strip" slot of their political section, and has been previously occupied by a slew of artists, including one of my major idols and influences, Heinz Edelmann. My contribution will feature Huge Suit (who made an appearance in Fantagraphics' 2006 Free Comic Book Day issue and is inarguably one of my more Heinz Edelmann-influenced characters). The strips aren't apparently going to be available online, but a clip is above. More details…
Things to see (1 of 5): Anders Nilsen
New sketchbook pages from Anders Nilsen. Above: the devil.
2008 Best-of List tally
We've been posting these as we've found them, but here's a (slightly OCD) alphabetical list of Fantagraphics titles and whose year-end lists that they've appeared on, for your handy reference. (Links will continue to be added as we find them.) Rankings appear in parentheses; no number means the list was unranked: Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane• Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes, "Favorite Books of 2008"• Alan David Doane, "Debut of the Year"• Inland Empire Weekly• Publishers Weekly "Comics Week's Third Annual Critic's Poll" (Honorable Mention)• Frank Santoro, "Top 9 of '08" (#2)• Marc Sobel (#2)• St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Best Books of…
Daily links: 1/8/09
• Review: Matthew Brady looks at Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers • Review: ComicMix calls Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw "one of the best and most accomplished graphic novels of 2008"
Daily links: 1/7/09
Good grief, I forgot to post this yesterday! I'll have today's batch later today. • Paul Gravett names Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell and Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes two of the Best Books About Comics of 2008 • The editors at Amazon put Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw at #4 on their list of "Top 10 Books: Comics & Graphic Novels" • The Inkstuds radio programme presents a conversation with Mome contributor Robert Goodin • The Village Voice casts a favorable eye on Beasts! Book 2 •…
Rebel Visions: a cartoon appreciation
Check out Joseph Remnant's cartoon appreciation of Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 by Patrick Rosenkranz, as published in the July 2008 issue of Arthur magazine, now available to read online.
