The Yoda theme sketchbook I started last year at SDCC (riding Jacob's Ninja Turtle coattails) got 14 great new entries at Stumptown this past weekend. Here's Tom Kaczynski's contribution (completed graciously in the closing minutes on Saturday): And Scott C's: To see all the new ones, hit here.
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Swiss Horror Master Thomas Ott Returns with His First Full-Length Graphic Novel {product_snapshot:id=1418,true,false,true,left}When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the moment, he puts it into his pocket. As the guard lives a solitary, monotonous life, the numbers on the paper awake his curiosity. To find out their hidden meaning could add a new meaning to his life as well, so the guard stumbles into situations in which the number or…
Slate on Bill Mauldin
In your second of two links lifted from today's ¡Journalista!, Slate has a slideshow feature on Willie & Joe cartoonist Bill Mauldin.
Debbie Drechsler interview
In your first of two links lifted from today's ¡Journalista!, pop culture blogger Tim O'Shea talks to Debbie Drechsler about Daddy's Girl.
Now available: Mome Vol. 1-10 Mega-Bundle
Mome Vol. 1-10 Mega-Bundle By various artists; edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds If you're interested in what's "happening" and "now" in comics, there's one place to turn: Mome, our quarterly anthology of the best in contemporary, cutting-edge cartooning. With so many volumes in print, it can be difficult to know where to start… so we've made it easy for you by offering Volumes 1-10 in one convenient package at nearly 1/3 OFF the combined cover prices! Don't miss out on this incredible deal. Collectively, these 10 volumes of Mome present work from over two dozen of comics' finest…
Now available: The Complete Love and Rockets Library Vol. 1
The Complete Love and Rockets Library Vol. 1 By Los Bros. Hernandez Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets was finally released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story, originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. 1 from 1982 to 1996, in perfect chronological order. Now that the series is complete, we are pleased to offer all seven volumes — nearly 2,000 pages of incredible comics — for a special package price. Seven black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcovers, 1,944 pages total • $84.99…
Now in stock: Amor Y Cohetes
Amor Y Cohetes – A Love and Rockets Book By Los Bros. Hernandez To a very great extent, Love and Rockets is synonymous with Hoppers’ Maggie & Hopey and Palomar’s Luba & Carmen & Heraclio & Tonantzin… but there was always more to L&R than that. Amor Y Cohetes finally collects together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love and Rockets series — a dizzying array of styles and approaches that re-confirms these groundbreaking cartoonists’ place in the history of comics. The book leads off with…
Now in stock: Mome Vol. 11 – Summer 2008
Mome Vol. 11 – Summer 2008 By various artists; edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds Vol. 11 of our acclaimed anthology series welcomes Killoffer, the acclaimed French cartoonist whose work has previously only been seen in the acclaimed collection 176 Apparitions of Killoffer. Killoffer delivers a new 12-page comic as well as front and back covers. MOME also features returning regulars Al Columbia, Kurt Wolfgang, Ray Fenwick, Eleanor Davis, Dash Shaw, John Hankiewicz, Emile Bravo, Andrice Arp, Tom Kaczynski, and Paul Hornschemeier. Plus, newcomers Conor O'Keefe and Nate Neal, as well as an interview with Ray Fenwick by Gary…
Flora’s Incredible Flutist
News from Jim Flora archivist Irwin Chusid: The Incredible Flutist is an uncirculated 1953-54 record cover painting by Flora that was intended for a 7-inch RCA Victor EP. Jim Flora Art LLC is offering a limited edition fine art print. According to a purchase order discovered in the Flora archives, the work was commissioned by RCA in late 1953, but there's no indication it was finished, accepted, or used on a commercially released EP. This painting has not previously been published or offered in any form. An alternate version appeared in the book The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora. Only…
Stumptown 2008 images
Fantagraphics was in full effect at the 2008 Stumptown Comics Fest. Your humble reporter was only there for Saturday of the two-day event, but had a smashing time (and went 200% over budget buying comics, art & t-shirts — yikes). Here's a brief video clip of our table: Pals and table-mates J.R. Williams and Jim Blanchard: Andrice Arp signs issues of Mome at the Fantagraphics table: Georgene and Robert Goodin: Mome contributor Tom Kaczynski: For the full set of photos on Flickr, click here. Stay tuned for new sketchbook scans.
