Thanks to all the Northwest Tony Millionaire fans who kicked off the new year with us last week by getting your copies of 500 Portraits signed! Here's what's going on this week: Wednesday, January 11th • Brooklyn, NY: Join the mighty Mr. Michael Kupperman for a visual presentation on the jacket art he designed for NY-based publisher Solid Objects! He'll be joined by the respective authors of those attractive tomes, Jake Bohstedt Morrill and Jim Shepard, starting at 7:30 PM at Greenlight Books. Not only will those guys be reading from their books, but Michael will be doing a reading…
Is That All There Is? by Joost Swarte – Previews, Pre-Order
Is That All There Is? by Joost Swarte 144-page full-color 7" x 9.5" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-510-5 Ships in: February 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 character, Anton…
Daily OCD: 1/9/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby’s Romance Comics isn’t just a book of some minor historical interest; it’s a genuinely entertaining and artful set of comics, and in some ways more readable than Simon and Kirby’s adventure stories…. Simon’s plots deal with jealousy, class conflict, mistaken identity, selfishness, and selflessness — the romance staples — while Kirby’s art makes these tales of passion and deceit especially dynamic, with deep shadows and a mix of the glamorous and the lumpen. …Simon and Kirby… depict[ed] a world of darkness and heavy emotion, inhabited…
Weekend Webcomics for 1/6/12: Kupperman, Mahler, Weissman & more
Our weekly strips from Kupperman, Mahler & Weissman (with something new!), plus links to other strips from around the web: — Black Classroom by Steven Weissman (view at original size): Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Angelman by Nicolas Mahler (view at original size): And elsewhere: The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour by John Kerschbaum at ACT-I-VATE: Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga: Humblug by Arnold Roth (6 updates this week, continuing serialization of his unpublished 1979 strip Downtown, including the Sunday strip excerpted here): Lucky by Gabrielle Bell : Maakies by…
Daily OCD: 1/6/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Robot 6's Chris Mautner lists "The Six Most Criminally Ignored Books of 2011," including King of the Flies Vol. 2: The Origin of the World by Mezzo & Pirus… "…[T]his dark, disjointed story about an assortment of misfit suburban characters plagued by bad luck and their own poor choices is a compelling, bitterly funny read… Despite its obvious influences King never feels like a pale imitation, especially in the second volume, where the ante is upped considerably, both on an aesthetic and narrative level." …and The Man Who Grew His Beard by Olivier Schrauwen: "Color Engineering author…
The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb – Previews, Pre-Order
The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb 96-page black & white 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-480-1 Ships in: January 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now “I can express something [with animals] that is different from what I put into my work about humans… I can put more nonsense, more satire and fantasy into the animals…” — R. Crumb Created by an adolescent R. Crumb in the late 1950s, Fritz the Cat rose to fame — along with his creator — during the underground comix revolution of the 1960s, and remains Crumb’s most well-known…
Daily OCD: 1/5/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: John Mueller of ComicImpact names The Hidden by Richard Sala one of the Best Comics & Art Books of 2011: "Imagine your unease if all the ghouls and ghosts of the Halloweens of your forgotten youth were suddenly made real, so real that they are about to come crashing through your front door at any moment. Oh, and don’t bother running to the neighbor’s because the monsters have stopped there first. That’s what reading The Hidden is like and that’s also what makes it not only one of the best books of the…
Back cover for Jaime Hernandez’s God & Science: Return of the Ti-Girls
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Stinck It Up With Stinckers on Etsy!
Flog readers surely know all about Stinckers, the super-fun line of vinyl stickers produced by Steven Weissman & Mats?!. Well, we're happy to announce that they've just launched an Etsy store as a one-stop shop for uncut production sheets of stincky fun, including designs from Daniel Clowes (as seen above, designed for Meltdown Comics in L.A.) to Johnny Ryan to (well, of course) Steven Weissman! They are quite suitable for framing, and shipping is free! This one's Steve's stincker sheet… And heeeerree's Johnny's!
Tony Millionaire Portrait Show at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Our wildly entertaining and talented cartoonist friend Tony Millionaire will appear at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, January 7 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM for a book signing and art show. He'll be exhibiting brilliantly sedate work from his new book 500 Portraits, recently released by Fantagraphics Books. 500 Portraits collects over two decades of work by the beloved creator of Drinky Crow's Maakies, Sock Monkey and Billy Hazelnuts. Tony Millionaire's gorgeous fountain pen illustrations are pretty amazing. Many of these 500 portraits were created for The Believer, the magazine founded by Dave Eggers that Millionaire helped define visually…
