Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • KEXP's Chris Estey names 3 of our books among the Most Rocking Comix 2010: "King of the Flies: 2. The Origin of the World… is the second volume in a three-book series on the creepy doings of a Twin Peaks-like small city seriously doped and boozed, thrashed by random violence and impulsive sexuality, the old deforming the desires of the young, and unfulfilled ghosts melt through everyday lives. […] It is a multi-leveled, wide expanse of delicate things falling apart and souls keeping it together somehow, full of… sexy, damaged, freaky people. That you…
Rip M.D. signings in Burbank & Tulsa
The creators of Rip M.D. have two signing events lined up this month: On Friday December 10 the whole creative team (writer/artist Mitch Shauer, inker Mike Vosburg, and color/effects crew Justin Yamaguchi & Michael Lessa) will do a demo, raffle giveaway and signing at the House of Secrets comic shop in Burbank, CA. Starts at 5PM and may go as late as 8PM. RSVP on Facebook. And on Saturday December 18 Mitch Schauer returns to his hometown of Tulsa, OK to sign copies of Rip M.D. at Borders Books & Music on Yale St. If we get any more details…
Ray Fenwick’s Mascots Special Edition from Tiny Showcase & new trailer
Ray Fenwick announceth: "Next Tuesday Tiny Showcase will release a special edition of my new book Mascots. The first 100 will be signed, but every copy ordered through Tiny will come with a print of the above image. That one was made after the book was off to press so it's not duplicated inside." He also debuts the new second trailer for the book, "A dramatization of the scene 'Fat Air'": Grab it!
Donate to the Fantagraphics Warehouse Permanent Gallery Museum
As you may know, we recently relocated our warehouse and shipping operation to a new facility. Our statuesque and erudite Warehouse Manager Nico Vassilakis has asked me to pass along the following message to you — yes, you — the public: Here's a fun thing to do. We're looking to beautify our new warehouse. And YOU can help. PLEASE DONATE your comic/artwork to the FANTAGRAPHICS WAREHOUSE. Any size, any style, anything goes. Everything accepted. It all goes up on our walls. Mail stuff directly to: FANTAGRAPHICS WAREHOUSE Attn: Permanent Gallery Museum 79 South Horton Suite 170 (the gate) Seattle, WA…
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents New Chicago Comics exhibit
Chicago is a city with a rich comics tradition and next month the city's Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates four current innovators in the medium with a can't-miss gallery exhibit titled New Chicago Comics: "For the month of January, the MCA presents an exhibition of the work of four young, Chicago-based cartoonists and animators: Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen. In their own unique styles each of these artists expands and challenges the conventions of a visual art form for which Chicago continues to be renowned: the comic book." The exhibit runs January 8-30, 2011. See more…
From our attic to eBay: Frank Kelly Freas prints
The latest treasures from our attic (literally) to be listed now on eBay: three incredible prints featuring artwork by master illustrator Frank Kelly Freas. Click each image to go straight to each listing or here to see all of them. These auctions end less than 72 hours from the time of this posting!
Daily OCD: 12/7/10
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: The Manga Critic's Katherine Dacey names Moto Hagio's A Drunken Dream and Other Stories the Best Manga of 2010 (after previously nominating it for Best Graphic Novel of 2010 at Flashlight Worthy) • List: Emily Pullen of fave L.A. bookstore Skylight Books names Stephen Dixon's What Is All This? as one of her Favorites from 2010: "I have a crush on this book: the cover, the paper, the heavy ink. Touch it. Read two stories. Try not to bring it home with you. Fail." • Review: "The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978 showcases an era…
New issue of Mineshaft due in January
I just read over at The Comics Reporter that the next issue of the great underground comix zine Mineshaft is coming soon. The issue features new work by R. Crumb and a host of others (see above), and cover art by Pat Moriarity, no stranger to suggestive covers with several of our Tijuana Bibles volumes under his belt. Go, subscribe!
Maximum Rocknroll’s Punk Comics Issue features Jaime Herandez, Gary Panter, more
Dang, the new ish of Maximum Rocknroll looks like an epic must-get, featuring interviews with Jaime Hernandez & Gary Panter and a whole mess more. (Thanks to Isotope Comics for the Twitter tip-off… "twip-off"? Ugh, no, scratch that.)
Things to See: Anders Nilsen & Kim Deitch by Gabrielle Bell
"Meaningless" is a one-panel comic written by Tony Groutsis and drawn by Gabrielle Bell, who describes it as "a brief fictional exchange between Anders Nilsen and Kim Deitch." Click through to see what they're saying.
