Everybody wants the Love and Rockets Northeast Tour flyer! And who can blame them? That iconic Jaime Hernandez artwork and our design wunderkind Tony Ong's coloring and typography are a killer combo. It's not for sale, but here's a free PDF download so you can print your own copy! Let's just say that it's licensed for individual non-commercial use, so no selling your printouts, OK? But if you live in one of the tour cities and want to print out a bunch to give away or even do a little volunteer street-teaming, we and the tour venues would dig that…
How much do Nordic people love Donald Duck?
This much: That's our pal Gavin Lees in Reykjavik at Nexus, the only comic shop in Iceland, with their giant sign for Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes by Carl Barks! Thanks Gavin for sending the pic (and for the post title and lead-in which I stole from his email).
Love and Rockets Northeast Tour
Friday, Sept. 14 • Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 15 & 16 • SPX, Bethesda, MD Tuesday, Sept. 18 • Atomic Books, Baltimore, MD Wednesday, Sept. 19 • Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, PA Friday, Sept. 21 • The Rock Shop, Brooklyn, NY Sunday, Sept. 23rd • Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY September 14th-23, the seminal Love and Rockets creators Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez will tour from Washington D.C. to Brooklyn as part of the 30th Anniversary of Love and Rockets. Signings and readings await the Northeast this fall. First stop on the Love and Rockets train…
Love and Rockets: New Stories #5 by the Hernandez Brothers – Previews, Pre-Order
Love and Rockets: New Stories #5 by Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez 104-page black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-586-0 Ships in: September 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Order this or any other Love and Rockets book and receive this FBI•MINI comic shown at left as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last. How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandez’s stunning two-part masterpiece “The Love Bunglers” from LRNS #3 and #4, which sent Maggie and Ray’s relationship in a startling new direction, as well as…
Daily OCD 8/8/12
The sweetest smelling Online Commentaries & Diversions: •Review: Partially and fully-reviewed on Em & Lo and SUNfiltered respectively is new book Significant Objects by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker. Em and Lo said, "The book also organizes the stories and objects into groups that will be more familiar to thrift-store shoppers, based on the items’ original intended use: novelty items, figurines, kitsch, toys, etc." •Plug: Significant Objects editor Joshua Glenn showed up on Benjamin Walker's WFMU show "Too Much Information" as a correspondant. As if you needed another reason to listen to TMI. •Plug: Bookstore of our dreams, Powells,…
Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez Signing in Washington DC!
The Love & Rockets 30th Anniversary tour is heading to the East Coast, and before their appearance at the 2012 Small Press Expo, you can catch the Brothers Hernandez in Washington DC! Join Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez at the Politics & Prose Bookstore on Friday, September 14th for a signing and celebration of 30 years of incredible storytelling, starting at 7:00 PM. This all-ages event is FREE and open to the public! Politics & Prose Bookstore is located at 5015 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC.
Inventory discovery: Pim & Francie: Collector’s Edition by Al Columbia
We miscounted! It turns out that, almost 3 years after we first offered it to what appeared to be an almost-immediate sellout, we actually have 4 copies left of the Pim & Francie: Collector's Edition by Al Columbia. Each copy of this special limited Collectors Edition comes with an original sketch hand-drawn and signed by Al Columbia. This sketch is on a separate sheet of paper which is tipped in (inserted without adhesive) to the book. See below for a representative example of a typical sketch. This special edition was strictly limited to 50 copies and is available exclusively only…
Noah Van Sciver’s Lincoln Lesson #5
A near duel is what let Denver cartoonist Noah Van Sciver to the trail of a book that eventually became the graphic novel, The Hypo. This week Van Sciver writes about his creative process and findings at Forbidden Planet. Van Sciver writes,"Most books I would find on the bookstore shelves flew through Lincoln’s bachelor years on their way to the Civil War. I gathered as much as I could from the first few chapters of as many books as I could find, but most told the same anecdotes over and over again offering me only slightly different wording. The…
The Last Kupperman Wednesday
The latest two issues of Michael Kupperman's critically-acclaimed series Tales Designed to Thrizzle hit the digital stand today thanks to a handshake and wink between Fantagraphics and comiXology. Enjoy issues #7 and #8 featuring comics with the Haminal and of course, beloved "Train & Bus Coloring Book." Has Mars mania grabbed ahold of you? Originally serialized in the Washington City Paper and online at Fantagraphics.com, the true story of the first lunar mission, "Moon 69," also graces the pages of issue number 8. More Kupperman is coming, keep watching the stars. "No one does giddy surrealism quite like Kupperman…" –…
Is That All There Is? by Joost Swarte (Softcover Ed. & 2nd Hardcover Ed.) – Previews, Pre-Order
Is That All There Is? (Softcover Ed.) by Joost Swarte 144-page full-color 7.5" x 10.25" softcover • $25.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-628-7 Ships in: September 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Order this book and receive this FBI•MINI comic shown at left as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last. By appropriating and subverting Tintin creator Hergé’s classic “clear line” style, Joost Swarte revitalized European alternative comics in the 1970s with a series of satirical, musically elegant, supremely beautifully drawn short stories — often featuring his innocent, magnificently-quiffed Jopo de Pojo, or his orotund scientist…
