Here is a picture of Daniel Clowes, who took his son to the Alameda County Fair a couple weekends back, only to discover an unlikely act on one of the stages. Dan reports, "Unfortunately, we missed their set." You can't make this shit up, folks.
Weekend Webcomics: 7/30/10 – double strips and the LAST Blecky Yuckerella
The good news: you get two of each strip this week (they're doubled up on the page) since we missed last week's update due to Comic-Con! The bad news: see below… This week's is the FINAL Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan EVER! Not a joke! Not an imaginary story! (Actually it's literally both, but we're not kidding about it being the last one.) …and the first of this week's Barack Hussein Obama strips by Steven Weissman could've taken place at San Diego last week, while the second is a diplomatic disaster.
Things to see: 7/30/10
Buckle in for two weeks worth of clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Jaime Hernandez, 1977 (from friend/fan Bernie Ramirez on the Love and Rockets Facebook page) • Anders Nilsen's Dennis Hopper for Cinefamily is magnificent • How about a little Dennis the Menace/Lost mash-up at Big Shiny Robot? • Moscow-born San Francisco-residing cartoonist Roman Muradov sends us some pages done in homage/tribute to Jason — they're good, and got a thumbs-up from Jason • Again with the Comics presents a Scooby-Doo story drawn by… Ivan Brunetti?? (via Steven Thompson) • Jason's sketch of…
Daily OCD: 7/30/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Intentionally or not, Mome #19 is almost a theme issue, with the usual mix of abstraction and autobiography giving way to multiple narrative-driven stories with their roots in genre fiction. … All-in-all, a solid outing for one of the best (and last) alt-comics anthologies on the market. [Grade] B+" – The A.V. Club • Review: "Rhymes, lyrics, words used by your grandma (and only if they had emigrated to the U.S.) and situations that have been extinct for many years are the main features of Culture Corner. But when is this so bad? ……
Moto Hagio meets Ray Bradbury at Comic-Con
Photo by Matt Thorn, who describes the historic meeting between these two greats in his blog report from Comic-Con. Bradbury is holding a copy of A Drunken Dream and Other Stories.
Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Autobiographical Comics at Cartoon Art Museum
This looks like an excellent and well-due survey of a robust but underacknowledged area of comics: "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women" opens at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum on October 1, featuring work by Vanessa Davis, Bernice Eisenstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Katin, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Miss Lasko-Gross, Miriam Libicki, Corinne Pearlman, Sarah Lightman, Sarah Lazarovic, Diane Noomin, Trina Robbins (above), Racheli Rottner, Sharon Rudahl, Laurie Sandell, Ariel Schrag, Lauren Weinstein, and Ilana Zeffren. From the announcement: "The Forward, the leading independent Jewish weekly newspaper and web site, is media sponsor, and will publish the show’s catalog as an eight-page…
Congratulations to Inkpot Award winners Peter Bagge, Moto Hagio & C. Tyler!
This is somewhat belated news, but we didn't get the photo uploaded until just now: Peter Bagge, Moto Hagio and C. Tyler were all awarded with Inkpot Awards at Comic-Con this year! Above, Peter and Carol pose with their trophies; Moto didn't bring her trophy to her signings, so if anyone has photos of her receiving or holding the award, we'd love to see them! Update: found at Comicsgirl!
Comic-Con Day 3 Part 3: Hernandez Bros., Moto Hagio, Stephen DeStefano
Xaime! Beto! Mario! My favorite photo of the Con: a next-generation fan enjoying a comic by a next-generation artist (Natalia's The Cat Eyes #1)! It became a daily thrill seeing what Moto Hagio would draw on our whiteboard for each of her signings: Stephen DeStefano was very generous with fans: Final done-in-one Day 4 update coming soon…
Daily OCD: 7/29/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Tunes: At Largehearted Boy, Cathy Malkasian provides a musical playlist for her new graphic novel Temperance • Interview: Snap Judgment's Stephanie Foo talks to Mome contributors Jon Adams & Robert Goodin, among others, about their superhero juvenilia in a slideshow with audio • History: At Comics Comics, Tim Hodler posts a 1954 letter from Charles M. Schulz to Walt Kelly provided by Jeet Heer • Plug: Eat, Sleep & Read! spotlights Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso • Comic-Con: For MTV IGGY, Deb Aoki covers Moto Hagio's appearance at Comic-Con: "Besides signing copies of her new…
What Comic-Con Means To Me
My name is Eric, and I'm a recovering Comicon attendee. Okay, that's a loaded opener and implies that I had an unhappy experience this year. I didn't; I just couldn't resist. But my way of navigating the show and finding ways to make it more enjoyable have definitely evolved over the years. I've been to every Comic-Con but one since sometime in the early-to-mid-1980s (and I'm only 39 — you do the math), long before the current convention center was built. I've gone as a child, an adult, a fan, a retailer representative, a journalist, a publicist, and a publisher….
