Dave Cooper hangs out with our Canadian counterparts at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and signs copies of his new book Bent on Thursday, January 20th at 7:00 PM. On their 211 Bernard blog they write: "Cooper continues to obsess and fixate over his bizarre procession of milky figures as they crawl and wriggle into hidden meadows, jungles and cities." Soyez là ou vous serez carrés.
Next Week on TCJ.com
Coming up on The Comics Journal website: Marc Sobel and his Android read comics; Kristian Williams takes to the sky with Garth Ennis for an in-depth analysis of the writer's aerial war stories; Rob Clough tours Seth's Palookaville; Nathan Wilson looks at Andy Diggle's Rat Catcher and more!
The Unstoppable Lewis Trondheim
French and Belgian publishers have taken to promoting their new books with nifty semi-animated "trailers." Here is the trailer for Lewis Trondheim's new series, RALPH AZHAM, coming this March from Dupuis. I post this to distract you from the fact that I'm a bit behind schedule on finishing the translation for Lewis's APPROXIMATE CONTINUUM COMICS. It's embarrassing that Lewis draws new comics faster than we can translate his old ones.
Things to See: Prison Pit x Eustace Tilley by Michael DeForge
OMfuckingG. It's Michael DeForge's entry for The New Yorker's Eustace Tilley cover contest, starring Cannibal Fuckface and friend from Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit. Eustace Fuckface! Michael DeSlorge! I could go on and on. So awesome I can barely stand it.
Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 by George Herriman – Previews, Pre-Order
Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921: A Kind, Belevolent and Amiable Brick by George Herriman 176-page black & white 9" x 12" softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-364-4 Ships in: February 2011 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now As Fantagraphics’ ambitious plan to reprint every single Sunday Krazy Kat page created by George Herriman for close to three decades (this being the penultimate book) careens toward the finish line, this volume features another three years’ worth of Sunday strips — over 150 little masterpieces by the greatest cartoonist of all time, featuring the greatest comic-strip love triangle of all time: “kat,” “mice” and “pupp.”…
Daily OCD: 1/13/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: iFanboy's Jason ranks Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition at #1 on the Top Collected Editions of 2010: "Fantagraphics has treated us with a 1,160-page, two volume slipcase collection that reprints the first seven trade paperbacks worth of content, as well as 50 covers and lots of never-before-seen backmatter." • List: "I don’t understand how Medley can write and draw so well. The story is entertaining and well-paced. The art is spacious, smooth with expressive lines. I have no idea why Medley hasn’t won every award everywhere. Volume two picks up where the first…
Things to See: STUPID IS LIKE UGLY – A Yikes Cartoon
A brand new Yikes! short from Steven Weissman & co.!
Editors Notes: Kim Thompson on King of the Flies Vol. 2
[In this installment of our series of Editors Notes, Kim Thompson interviews himself (in a format he's dubbed "AutoChat") about King of the Flies Vol. 2: The Origin of the World by Mezzo & Pirus, now available to order from us and coming soon to a comics shop near you. – Ed.] Congratulations on King of the Flies Volume 1 being named one of the 10 best graphic novel releases of the year by Amazon.com. Thanks, that was a nice surprise. Not because I didn't think King of the Flies deserved it, but because I thought it had kind of…
Now in stock: Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti & Claudio Piersanti
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti & Claudio Piersanti 192-page black & white 7.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-409-2 Previews & Ordering Info He lives day to day and hand to mouth, this shambling lug of a man, wrestling with his demons, picking up work where he can, and drinking himself into oblivion. Until one days his palms begin to bleed… These newfound stigmata lose him his job, and he ends up as part of a traveling carnival, where he even finds love. But his past catches up with him — violently…
Now in stock: King of the Flies Vol. 2: The Origin of the World by Mezzo & Pirus
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: King of the Flies Vol. 2: The Origin of the World by Mezzo & Pirus 64-page full-color 9" x 12.5" hardcover • $18.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-390-3 Previews & Ordering Info King of the Flies Vol. 1: Hallorave was named one of Amazon's Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2010. Now, here is the second installment in Mezzo and Pirus’s creepily sexy suburban soap opera — a French Twin Peaks graphic novel as written by Stephen King and drawn by Charles Burns. Eric the fly-head-wearing teenager is back (as well as his hapless mother and…
