Time for your weekly dose of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks!" In this week's strip: confusing advice and, um, health issues. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)
Ellen Forney at Bailey/Coy Books next week
Join Ellen for a multimedia reading and performance next Thursday! Plus! Dazzling dancer Fuschia FoXXX! (Voted one of The Stranger's "Sexiest Citizens"!) Scantily-clad sirens, including Holly Chernobyl! (Also voted one of The Stranger's "Sexiest Citizens"!) Chocolate kisses! More!! Thursday, February 28, 7pm Bailey/Coy Books 414 Broadway Ave. E. (across from QFC)Seattle, WA206-323-8842
Members Preview: Daddy’s Girl
This week's free preview is a downloadable 10-page excerpt of the new hardcover edition of Daddy's Girl, the long out-of-print Fantagraphics classic from 1995 by Debbie Drechsler. The excerpt includes the Table of Contents and the entire first story, "Visitors in the Night" (warning: explicit content). These previews are exclusive to registered Fantagraphics.com users, so sign up and/or sign in to view. (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…)
Daddy’s Girl – Exclusive Preview
A New Edition of a Long Out-of-Print Fantagraphics Classic {product_snapshot:id=1442,true,false,true,left}Fantagraphics Books is proud to re-release one of the most powerful and moving books in its distinguished publishing history: Debbie Drechsler’s first collection of short comic stories, Daddy’s Girl. Originally published in 1995 and distributed only to comic book specialty stores, Daddy’s Girl was ahead of its time: Two years before The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison’s critically acclaimed story of her incestuous relationship with her father, Drechsler’s account of her abuse at the hands of her father, told from the point of view of an adolescent, is one of the most searingly…
MOME Interview 4: Jonathan Bennett
Gary Groth put the questions to Jonathan Bennett in February 2006 for the interview we printed in Mome Vol. 4; now it's the latest installment of our ongoing series of Mome interview web reprints and you can read it right here. Previously: Paul Hornschemeier, Gabrielle Bell and Kurt Wolfgang. Next up: Andrice Arp.
Cats love comics
Found on Flickr, from user Jessie Johnson. Taken at Comic Relief in Berkeley.
Free download: Laura Warholic, Chapter 1
Attention lovers of prose literature: we've put the entire first chapter (along with the indicia and Table of Contents) of Alexander Theroux's novel Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual online as a FREE download (PDF format, 260KB).
Scavenger hunt answers
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered our Scavenger Hunt contest! We only had one incorrect answer (and one that our judges are still looking into) out of 18 entries. Our randomly-selected Grand Prize 50%-off coupon winner is Michael Pang of Phoenix, Arizona. We've notified all the winners, so if you entered, check your inbox! For the record, here are the questions and the answers we were looking for: What is the name of the mermaid character in Dame Darcy's Meat Cake?Effluvia Buddy Bradley's pal Stinky was the lead singer of what band?Leonard and the Love Gods What artists make…
Chocolate Cheeks for 2/15/08
Friday means a new installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks!" This week's strip emphasizes the importance of grooming… and say, I haven't seen those cyclops twins before! (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)
New feature: Dan Clowes’s “Modern Cartoonist”
Daniel Clowes's "Modern Cartoonist" essay caused quite a stir when it originally appeared as a bound-in booklet accompanying Eightball #18 in 1997; now we have archived it for your reading pleasure here on the Fantagraphics.com website.
