Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Beautifully bound, this is graphic journalism on a human and environmental disaster with long-term consequences far beyond here-and-gone traditional news coverage. Honestly told, well written, beautifully illustrated and accessible to a wide audience: Oil and Water should reach readers of all ages and satisfy the most discerning critics. BRAVO!" – Craig Seasholes, JacketFlap • Review: "More a graphic book than straight comic book or straight novel, it plays to the strengths of both mediums. Kupperman’s prose recalls the casual absurdity of early Woody Allen or Douglas Adams, and as there is no real…
Editors Notes: Kim Thompson on The Cabbie Vol. 1
[In this installment of our series of Editors Notes, Kim Thompson interviews himself (in a format he's dubbed "AutoChat") about The Cabbie Vol. 1 by Martí, now available to order from us and at a comics shop near you. – Ed.] Okay, then… so, a couple of weeks after an ultraviolent crime thriller by a French cartoonist (Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot), you're releasing an ultraviolent crime thriller by a Spanish cartoonist. Is this a trend? More like a coincidence. Of all the foreign books we're releasing this year, they're really the only two who fall into this…
Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Comics in NYC
After acclaimed runs in San Francisco and Toronto, the touring exhibit Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women is now showing in New York City! The exhibit runs through April 15th at the Yeshiva University Museum in the Center for Jewish History [ 15 West 16th Street ] and features Fantagraphics artists Miss Lasko-Gross, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Trina Robbins, and Diane Noomin, alongside a ton of other amazing female artists, like Vanessa Davis, Bernice Eisenstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Katin, Miriam Libicki, Corinne Pearlman, Sarah Lightman, Sarah Lazarovic, Racheli Rottner, Sharon Rudahl, Laurie Sandell, Ariel Schrag, Lauren Weinstein and Ilana Zeffren. And…
Doodleganza with Paul Hornschemeier Tomorrow!
Paul at the Emerald City Comic-Con, 2009 [ credit: Fantagraphics Flickr ] Hey Chicago! Guess who's hosting this month's Doodleganza: The Drawing Extravaganza at the Museum of Contemporary Art? GIVE UP? Yes, it's Paul Hornschemeier! Join him tomorrow Tuesday, October 4th from 6:00-8:00 PM as he runs "through the paces of drawing experiments." Will it involve Smurfs? I'm gonna guess, no. Doodleganza is free with museum admission, and is sure to be a blast! The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 220 East Chicago Avenue. Will Tony Danza be at Doodleganza? I'm gonna guess… no.
Twain in the Membrane: Comedy Party Tomorrow Night!
Your brain won't be the same after the Twain in the Membrane Comedy Party! Join Michael Kupperman and friends tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 4th at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY for the Twain-iest party that ever will be, celebrating the release of the smash-hit Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010! There will be live comedy from (five-time Emmy nominee!) Jon Glaser, Kate Beaton, David Rees, Max Silvestri, Emily Flake, Dyna Moe, and more. There will be live cartoons. There will be a Mark Twain costume contest, so start grooming those mustaches! And, yes, ladies and gentlemen… there will be a frog-humping contest. Littlefield…
Things to See: Dash Shaw’s Blind Date 4
If you were a fan of Dash Shaw's comics adaptations of Blind Date TV episodes in Mome (and who wasn't?) you'll be happy to know that the series lives on beyond the anthology's demise, with the latest installment in video format. Dash explains, "this time I took an episode and paused it every 5 seconds and drew the frame. Then I put the drawings into a timed slideshow with the original audio over it." Watcb above or at Dash's The Ruined Cast website.
More Linda Medley Starstruck pages for sale!
Three more great Linda Medley pages from the never-published "Galactic Girl Guides" series have gone up for sale on eBay. Page five is a lovely title page, and page six is action-packed, but every one of them is a thing of beauty. Click through each image to go straight to the auction.
Daily OCD: 9/30/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Profile: CT.com's Alan Bisbort talks to Michael Kupperman in advance of his appearance at Hartford's Mark Twain House tomorrow: "Kupperman, to be clear and fair, is quite fond of Twain, so his own caricatures are done with the affection one has for an eccentric uncle. His portrayals of Twain are interchangeable with his equally affectionate depictions of Albert Einstein — Twain and Einstein have, in fact, regularly appeared together in Kupperman's comic strips over the years — so he was pleasantly surprised by a recent serendipitous Internet purchase. 'I ordered a Twain wig and…
Things to See (and Buy): 21 page 7 by Wilfred Santiago
You can be the proud owner of the original art for page 7 of 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente by Wilfred Santiago. Looks like he's added some special touches like hand-coloring and shading and an extra sound effect. Bid it up on eBay!
Weekend Webcomics for 9/30/11: Kupperman, Weissman & more
Our weekly strips from Kupperman & Weissman, plus links to other strips from around the web: — Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (view at original size): And elsewhere: Cochlea & Eustachia by Hans Rickheit: Ectiopiary by Hans Rickheit: Forming by Jesse Moynihan: Humblug by Arnold Roth: Maakies by Tony Millionaire: Truth Serum by Jon Adams: What's in the Backpack by Victor Kerlow:
