On Saturday, Jaime Hernandez was honored with the Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist during Baltimore Comic Con. The Harvey Awards are voted on by Jaime's fellow cartoonists and creative professionals in the comics industry. A great nod to a great cartoonist the same month as Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 is out. Pick up a copy at SPX in Bethesda, Maryland this week!
Literary Mayhem & Music at Manitobas, NYC
This September 26th enjoy an "Evening of Literary Mayhem & Music" in New York starring Danny Bland, celebrating his new novel In Case We Die and Mike Edison, author of "I Have Fun Everywhere I Go" and "Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!" The night couldn't be complete without featuring the World's Greatest Piano Player, Mickey Finn. And special guest DJ Eric Davidson will be spinning punk rock favorites and more! "Where is this?" screams everyone at once—creating such a deafening noise we wonder if you can possibly still attend because your ear drums erupted and, ew, it's kinda bleeding all over–It's at…
Dash Shaw at IFP Filmmaker Conference
IFP Filmmaker Conference – Inspiration, Action, Community!Sept. 15-19, 2013, Lincoln Center, New York City Guess what? Your favorite cartoonist-cum-animator Dash Shaw will be appearing at the Filmmaker Conference the week after SPX. Here are the details, friends! Whatever form your story takes, IFP's Filmmaker Conference showcases how great projects can connect with audiences and stand out in a crowded marketplace. Presenting filmmakers and cross-platform innovators including Oscar-nominated producer Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games), filmmakerLucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan) and multimedia musician DJ Spooky, case studies of Fruitvale Station, Our Nixon, Comedy Central's Drunk History, Sound City, and interactive documentary Hollow,…
Atomic Books’ SPX-Plosion 2013
Our good friends at Atomic Books have released the deets on their 6th annual burnin-down-the-house party the night before SPX at their store in Baltimore, MD. This party features Peter Bagge signing his calvacade of new books from 6-7pm and then readings from 7-1opm. Iconic cartoonist, Hate-creator, Peter Bagge will be signing copies of his books, Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story (Drawn & Quarterly) and Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations from us! The readings will feature these superb cartoonists and their new books:MICHAEL KUPPERMAN (Tales Designed To Thrizzle)SAM HENDERSON (Magic Whistle)T. EDWARD BAK (Island…
Fantagraphics at the Brooklyn Book Festival 2013
The Brooklyn Book Festival is coming up for all you readers, writers and fans! A few of our cartoonists are coming up for panels AND we have one hell of a rager party planned at Bergen Street Comics! SIX, count 'em, SIX cartoonists will be at Bergen Street signing their newest graphic novels and minis. Saturday at 8pm at 470 Bergen Street—the place to be! Chuck Forsman, Leslie Stein, Ulli Lust, Ed Piskor, Dash Shaw and Tom Kaczynski will all be there. And so should you! And then on Sunday, let the Brooklyn Book Festival commence! Below…
Scrublands on comiXology
Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce the debut collection of Joe Daly, SCRUBLANDS, the first book the company has published by a South African cartoonist. Daly's cartoons, offbeat, hallucinatory, and often hilarious, seems descendant from the substance-induced work of Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, and S. Clay Wilson, filtered through the artist's own unique vision and sense of the absurd. Stories alternate between full-color and black-and-white, and range from representational Jim Jarmusch-like scenarios to wild visual excursions, albeit linear ones. Grab this 127 page book for only $8.99 via comiXology and get whisked away into some fine comics reading.
Live-Action series in production: TEOTFW
Charles Forsman's most recent graphic novel, The End of the Fucking World, is currently being filmed in England by Buchanan Productions in association with Film 4.0. Director Jonathan Entwhistle keeps putting up photos on Instagram and Twitter and we can't help it, we're freaking out! (check out how faithful the shot of young James' animal body count is to the page in TEOTFW) Craig Roberts (from Submarine) is playing James, the psychotic teen, and we're excited from what we can see so far! Forsman told us there will be some changes since the pilot was cast with British actors (guess they're not…
New Comics Day 8.28.13
This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. The End of the Fucking World (TEOTFW) by Charles Forsman 176-page black & white 5" x 6.5" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-667-6 "[It] pulls you in like no other comic this year. Stunning in its simplicity and brave in its subject matter. Charles Forsman is a future force. . . [it]…
National Book Festival: Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez
The National Book Festival takes place September 21st and 22nd on the National Mall in Washington D.C. and your two favorite cartoonists will be there! Gilbert Hernandez's will be at the Graphic Novels & Science Fiction Pavilion: Sunday, September 22Presentation 12:55 pm – 1:40 pmSigning: 3-4pm And Jaime Hernandez will also be at the Graphic Novels & Science Fiction Pavilion:Sunday, September 22Presentation: 1:50 pm – 2:35 pmSigning: 3-4pm that same day
Lost Cat: NYT Best Seller
Congratulations to Jason for landing on the New York Times Best Seller's List for his most recent graphic novel, Lost Cat. Translated by Kim Thompson, this 160 page beauty is crime noir at its finest, a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection to – and what do you do if you lose that person? "Jason is one of the few artists (or writers) who can make existential aches seem droll, but it makes the smiles being provoked feel as honest as the ones we get when standing across from someone who…
