Happy to bring you some great comics reading for your long weekend, Fantagraphics and comiXology present Paul Hornschemeier's The Three Paradoxes to download. The story begins with a story inside the story: the cartoon character Paul Hornschemeier is trying to finish a story called "Paul and the Magic Pencil." An intricate, complex autobiographical comic blending multiple threads of reality and fantasy, each drawn in a different style, coming together as one story questioning change, progress, and worth in the author's life. For $12.99 this carefully woven tale can be yours to unravel again and again and again at comiXology. …
Sub Pop and Seattle’s Seminal Comix Culture
My first encounter with Sub Pop founder Bruce Pavitt came when he participated in an art show I co-curated at Rosco Louie gallery called "Famous Artists of the 80s," which opened on New Year's Eve at the dawn of that decade. Bruce contributed a delightfully playful painting rendered on the headboard of a baby crib. Though still a student at Evergreen State College, he came closest to fulfilling the ironic premise of the exhibition. Pavitt soon began producing his hand crafted Subterranean Pop fanzine, enlisting recent Evergreen alumni Lynda Barry to create the cover of issue 2 and Charles Burns to illustrate…
Wake Up with Percy Gloom & Cathy Malkasian This Saturday!
Don't sleep in this Saturday, July 6th! The great Cathy Malkasian will follow up her Friday night appearance at the California College of the Arts with a special "brunch" event at Mission: Comics & Art! Cathy will be serving up smiles and signings of Wake Up, Percy Gloom!, starting at 12:30 PM. It's sure to be your new favorite bedtime story, except you'll be too enchanted by Percy's adventures to fall asleep! Mission: Comics & Art is located at 3520 20th Street, Suite B in the Mission District of San Francisco, natch!
Independence Day means it’s sale time!
Instead of spending your hard-earned money on ephemeral spark-shooting gewgaws, why not celebrate our nation's liberation from overseas oppression by investing in quality collections of classic entertainment that stands the test of time? Now through July 8, 2013 we're offering a swell assortment of titles at up to 40% off list price! Get great vintage work from some of The World's Greatest Cartoonists like Roy Crane, Jack Davis, Dan DeCarlo, Steve Ditko, Bill Everett, Hal Foster, Floyd Gottfredson, Fletcher Hanks, George Herriman, Crockett Johnson, Walt Kelly, Bill Mauldin, E.C. Segar, Gahan Wilson, Basil Wolverton and many more, all at a spiffy…
This Week in Fantagraphics Events: 7/1-7/8
San Franciscans, get ready for a busy weekend… Friday, July 5th • San Francisco, CA: The California College of the Arts kicks off their summer series with special guest Cathy Malkasian! Cathy will be discussing her work in the animation industry, as well as her most recent book, Wake Up, Percy Gloom! (more info) Saturday, July 6th • San Francisco, CA: And join Cathy Malkasian for a "brunch" signing of Wake Up, Percy Gloom at Mission: Comics & Art at 12:30 PM! (more info) Sunday, July 7th • San Francisco, CA: It's your last chance to stop by the Cartoon…
Guantanamo Trials Bans Art Supply
(photo by Carol Roseberg) Janet Hamlin, the only court artist from 2006 until earlier this year at the Guantanmo Bay trials, reported last week that the stadium glasses she's been using to draw the courtroom trials have been…banned. As Hamlin explains in her upcoming book Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013, she has to go through intensive daily checks (including having art supplies like pastels and conte crayons searched) before being allowed to sit in her glass chamber, with a TV showing her closer shots of the defendents' faces but with a time delay. Speaking of trials, Hamlin's drawings…
Love and Rockets LOCAS Digital Bundle
Fantagraphics and comiXology are now offering a five book digital bundle to save you money. The entire collected "Locas" saga (to date) by Jaime Hernandez stars Maggie, Hopey, their friends, families, rivals and lovers in 5 digital volumes, offered here at a special package price! Maggie the Mechanic includes the earliest, punkiest stories with a heavy science-fiction bend. Meanwhile The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. centers on one of Jaime's peaks, "The Death of Speedy," and various love triangles. In third volume, Perla La Loca Jaime drops a narrative bomb on Hopey, a murderous hooker AND an amorous lady wrestler appear; and…
SODA POP: Super Sugar Big Buzz exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore for the Sub Pop Silver Jubilee
SODA POP: Super Sugar Big Buzz exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore examines formative years of Sub Pop coinciding with Sub Pop Silver Jubilee Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery celebrates the Sub Pop Silver Jubilee celebration in Georgetown with an exhibition, panel discussion and reading on Saturday, July 13. The show examines the influence of alternative comix, illustration, and graphic design on the legendary music label, which gave rise to the last significant youth movement of the millennium. This event coincides with the Sub Pop Silver Jubilee, a free music festival commemorating 25 years of Sub Pop featuring 15 bands on 3 stages…
Kim Deitch Signing & Slideshow at Booksmith San Francisco!
Don't miss a very special evening of comics and cinema with the legendary Kim Deitch on Wednesday, July 17th at Booksmith! Kim will present his latest masterpiece, The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley, with a slideshow presentation and talk, starting at 7:30 PM. And then Kim will present a very special screening of the 1915 silent film by Lois Webber, The Hypocrites! (And if you enjoy that, be sure to join Kim the following evening, Thursday, July 18th, for the kick-off of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival!) Don't miss this amazing, enlightening event with a…
The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley by Kim Deitch – Photos
“Kim Deitch has created a private world as fully realized in its own way as Faulkner’s. He’s an American original, a spinner of yarns whose beautifully structured pages and intricate plots conjure up a haunting and haunted American past.” – Art Spiegelman "Maybe even more than fellow first-wave underground comics creator Crumb, Deitch has maintained his quality." – Ray Olson, Booklist "Deitch… retains an astonishing ability to tap into the deepest desires of pop-culture junkies, and to show how the satisfaction we seek from nostalgia can lead us to some dark corners of our collective showbiz past." – The A.V. Club…
