We're going deeper underground this week on comiXology with the release of Frank Stack's Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions. "Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the movie American Splendor!), and as the creator of one of the first underground comic books The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects his comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. In this book, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician…
Krazy Backlist Bonanza!
No foolin’ — starting today on comiXology, you can get every volume of the Krazy & Ignatz daily strips by George Herriman ! Krazy & Ignatz is a love story, focusing on the relationship of its three main characters. Krazy Kat adores Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz Mouse just tolerates Krazy Kat, except for recurrent onsets of targeting tumescence, which found expression in the fast delivery of bricks to Krazy’s cranium. Offisa Pup loves Krazy and seeks to protect “her” (Herriman always maintained that Krazy was genderless), mostly by throwing Ignatz in jail. Each of the characters was ignorant of the other’s…
Casey at the Bat on comiXology
Just in time for spring training comes Casey at the Bat and Other Diamond Tales by Willard Mullin, now available digitally through comiXology. In 1953, legendary cartoonist Willard Mullin illustrated one of America's best-loved poems: Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." These images were then put on a series of drinking glasses that were given away as premiums at various major and minor league ballparks across America. The illustrations by Mullin were thought to have been lost, but were found at an auction in 2002. They have been meticulously reproduced to create this stunning edition. The book includes additional Mullin material like the "Fan's…
