A new Friday brings a new installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip: cake and new perspective. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)
MOME Interview 6: Tim Hensley
The latest artist to speak out in our ongoing series of Mome interview web reprints is Tim Hensley, in a discussion with Gary Groth conducted in September 2006 and originally printed in Mome Vol. 6; read it in its entirety right here. Previously: Paul Hornschemeier, Gabrielle Bell, Kurt Wolfgang, Jonathan Bennett and Andrice Arp. Next up: Anders Nilsen.
Ellen Forney, transit artist
Seattle residents can look forward to some public art by Ellen Forney. Sez Ellen: I'll be doing the public art for the Sound Transit tunnel from the west entrance by SCCC under Broadway, to the station. Yay! I'm not sure what art I'm going to do yet (Big Fuckin' Hands or naked ladies might not pass through the committee processes) but I'll come up with something with my signature feel-good flair. (Here is a "sample of my public work," courtesy of Photoshop.) (Via Slog.)
Goodinterview
Mome artist Robert Goodin talks about the cartooning life to Illustration.org.
Bonus Members (and Public) Preview: Most Outrageous
This week we have a bonus preview for our registered users: a downloadable 19-page excerpt containing the entire first two chapters of Most Outrageous: The Trials and Trespasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester by Bob Levin. Sign up and/or sign in to view. As an extra free bonus for everyone, we've put the book's Introduction, written by Levin, on our website for the genral public. Enjoy!
Members Preview: Amor Y Cohetes
This week's free preview is a downloadable 25-page excerpt from Amor Y Cohetes, the concluding volume of the Love and Rockets Library. These previews are exclusive to registered Fantagraphics.com users, so sign up and/or sign in to view. We also have an extra bonus preview to unveil today… stay tuned! (As a reminder, 20/20 Club members receive these previews two weeks before we post them on the website, just one of many great reasons to join up…)
Amor Y Cohetes – Exclusive Preview
The Seventh and Final Volume of the Love and Rockets Library {product_snapshot:id=1458,true,false,true,left}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 Gilbert’s original…
Most Outrageous – Exclusive Preview
{product_snapshot:id=1469,true,false,true,left}THE TRIALS AND TRESPASSES OF DWAINE TINSLEY AND CHESTER THE MOLESTER In May 1989, Dwaine Tinsley stood at the summit of an unlikely career. The product of a broken, trailer-trash marriage, he was a high school dropout who had decided to become a professional cartoonist while serving a six-year sentence in a Maryland prison for burglary. As cartoon editor for Larry Flynt’s notorious Hustler magazine, he had assembled a staff of pen-and-Wite-Out-wielding Lenny Bruces whose unprecedentedly offensive socio-sexual cartoons had spearheaded that publication’s fight against the forces of censorship and repression that sought to overthrow the political and cultural gains…
Most Outrageous – Introduction by Bob Levin
{product_snapshot:id=1469,true,false,true,left} I had no idea what to do next. For fifteen years, while practicing law in Berkeley, I had been writing about cartoonists for The Comics Journal. It had become apparent early on that the more off-beat the cartoonist was in his life or art, the more I would be drawn to him. Once my bias had become clear, someone at the Journal would have another cartoonist for me: a schizophrenic and an alcoholic and a speed freak and a suicide and a misanthrope and one fellow whose career off-tracked when he became a woman. Their work was often grotesquely…
Chocolate Cheeks for 3/14/08
Hooray, the new installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks" is here! In this week's strip: limeade (presumably) and loathing. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)
