Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: At his High-Low blog Rob Clough posts his belated Top 50 Books of 2010 list, with Megan Kelso's Artichoke Tales at #1, 4 of our books in the top 5, 5 in the top 10, 8 in the top 20, and 14 overall in the top 50 — it's a long but worthwhile read • Review: "Calling Congress of the Animals recommended reading is a bit misleading. It’s definitely recommended, but it doesn’t technically involve reading. The entire book doesn’t feature a single word bubble. The only words are on the book jacket….
Things to See: Jason’s Athos in America back cover illustration
Jason shares his artwork for the back cover of his upcoming story collection Athos in America and it makes a fine counterpoint to the front cover.
Fantagraphics at Bumbershoot 2011
The Bumbershoot Music & Arts festival is upon us again, and if you can navigate through the drum circles and shishkaberry lines, here's where you can find some Fantagraphics: Bumber By Number: local culture vultures Marlow Harris and Jo David are featuring a fully-immersive and interactive paint-by-numbers art exhibit, which will also feature vintage paint-by-numbers kits altered by our own Jim Blanchard and Jim Woodring. [ That's a shot of Blanchard's piece above, which will be for sale! ] If you wanna check out Bumber By Number and the rest of this year's visual art offerings, head to Seattle Center…
Tattoo time: Millionaire & Kupperman ink
When someone at Staten Island comic shop Comic Book Jones tweeted about their tattoo of the NYC cityscape based on a Tony Millionaire drawing, we knew we had to see it and share it with all our Flog readers. And look what else we found in their Twitpic archives: one of their customers with a neck tattoo (!) of Michael Kupperman's Snake 'n' Bacon and a panel from Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 on his arm!
Blazing Combat trailer (from Brazil)
Brazilian publisher Gal Editora put together this spiffy trailer for their translated edition of our Blazing Combat collection (Combate Inglório). It works pretty well as an advertisement for our edition too, even if you don't read Portuguese. Perhaps someday I'll teach myself how to make trailers like this; in the meantime you can check out our video preview too. (Via Bleeding Cool.)
Weekend Webcomics for 8/28/11
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: Forming by Jesse Moynihan: Humblug by Arnold Roth (3 new udpates): Maakies by Tony Millionaire: Truth Serum by Jon Adams:
Daily OCD: 8/26/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "It would take Gottfredson a few years to hit his stride: Many of his best Mickey stories appeared in the later ’30s and ’40s. But the basic characteristics that would make the print version of Mickey popular after the studio curtailed his animated antics can clearly be seen in these first installments…. Race to Death Valley is the latest entry in Fantagraphics’ reprints of classic comic strips, and is sure to delight fans of Mickey Mouse as well as comic strip aficionados. The strips are clearly printed in a readable size, and editors…
First Look: Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture
Another reveal of an amazing art book today! Art Director Tony Ong just turned in this fabulous cover design for Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture – A Career Retrospective, coming out during the holidays. Hope you've got some extra shelf space in your bookcase because you'll want to display this (and the other one we revealed today, Tony Millionaire's 500 Portraits) face-out! Click the image for a larger version so you can bask in all that amazing detail.
If I Were in Brussels I’d Sure as Hell Go To This
Eric Verhoest et Thomas Spitaelsont le plaisir de vous inviterà l’inauguration deTrafic par Joost Swarte Vernissage en présence de l’artiste,le jeudi 8 septembre 2011de 18h00 à 20h30_ Eric Verhoest en Thomas Spitaelshebben het genoegen u uit te nodigenop de opening vanTrafic door Joost Swarte Vernissage in het bijzijn van de kunstenaarop donderdag 8 september 2011van 18u00 tot 20u30 Rue Ernest Allardstraat, 27Bruxelles 1000 BrusselBelgiumTel : +32 2 514 91 52 Fax : +32 2 346 16 09sablon@galeriechampaka.comwww.galeriechampaka.com (Apologies to Tom Spurgeon for swiping his title.) That is one classy invitation, too. I doubt the fact that the show's title is the same as the…
Gilbert Hernandez exhibit opens in Las Vegas TONIGHT!
Aieee! Last minute Beto alert! He's got some artwork on display at a comic shop in his hometown of Las Vegas, with what sounds like a hoot of an opening reception tonight. From the Facebook invitation: Alternate Reality Comics proudly invites you to our FIRST ever Artist Spotlight Reception!! Please join us for this great event as we try to bridge the gap between the comic world and various other art forms!! This months featured local artists will be the very talented Keri Schroeder and comic book legend Gilbert Hernandez (creator of Love and Rockets). We will also have live…
