Tony Millionaire graciously agreed to answer a few questions about his new book Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird, due for release next month. This interview was conducted over email by our recently-departed Comics Journal editorial intern Jenna Allen and proofread by TCJ's Kristy Valenti. Thanks to all! –Ed. Jenna Allen: It's been four years since the first Billy Hazelnuts book. What other projects have you been working on? Tony Millionaire: The reason it took so long between Billy books was not that I didn't have an idea. I actually have the first three books generally laid out as a…
Things to see: 5/20/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • It's Paul Hornschemeier's new weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop • This week's Maakies by Tony Millionaire — come to think of it, I think I forgot to post last week's • Steve Brodner's portrait of BP CEO Tony Hayward • T. Edward Bak gives you a nice big juicy (and sexy!) 12-page preview of the Fall installment of his "Wild Man" Mome serial
Daily OCD: 5/20/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: At The Hooded Utilitarian, Noah Berlatsky presents an unedited version of his review of Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1 by Michael Kupperman, which originally ran in the Chicago Reader • Plugs: Library Journal's "Graphic Novels Prepub Alert" for September 2010 releases features A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio ("When Fantagraphics jumps into magna, they splash big: with the 'founding mother' of modern shojo manga and a pioneer of the BL (boys love) genre. These four decades of short stories feature gorgeous art—some in color — and intellectually subtle plotting"); Pogo:…
Now in stock: Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman 32-page full-color 6.75" x 9.5" comic book • $4.95ISBN: 978-1-60699-422-1 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Now in FULL COLOR! This issue includes Jungle Princess battling rhino traders, a story of Broadway theatrics in “All About Drainage,” more of America’s favorite physicist/writer duo, Twain & Einstein, plus slightly cursed merchandise, Cockney grave robbers, and Cowboy Oscar Wilde. Download an EXCLUSIVE 4-page PDF excerpt (4.7 MB) starring Jungle Princess! Also available now: Order the Thoroughly Thrizzled Pack containing Tales Designed to Thrizzle…
Now in stock: Dungeon Quest, Book 1 by Joe Daly
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Dungeon Quest, Book 1 by Joe Daly 136-page black & white 6" x 8.25" softcover • $12.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-347-7 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews One day Millennium Boy decided to grab his hobo stick, his bandanna, and his Swiss Army knife, bid his mom goodbye, and head off on a quest for adventure. Joined by his best friend Steve (weapon: baseball bat; clothing: wife beater, cargo pants and sandals), they soon find themselves in a violent altercation with two other adventure seekers. It ends badly for their antagonists (“Whoa,…
Things to see: 5/19/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Dash Shaw made this zine to distribute at the Sundance-organized table-read of the script for his in-development animated feature The Ruined Cast (interior pages at the link) • I like this Frank Santoro image, whatever it is • Jim Woodring redefines "treehugger" — yikes! • This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Daily OCD: 5/19/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Part theater of cruelty, part joyous liberating revolution, Jim Woodring's freakishly beautiful Weathercraft is at once the most direct and most elliptical of his Frank comics that I can remember reading." – Sean T. Collins, Attentiondeficitdisorderly • Plug: Newsarama's J. Caleb Mozzocco calls Dame Darcy's Meat Cake "something to get excited about" • Links: Love & Maggie rounds up links to recent Love and Rockets-related reviews
New Comics Day 5/19/10
It couldn't be a finer time to be a Fantagraphics fan as we have three major book releases scheduled to land in comic shops this week (with scuttlebutt that some shops may have received them last week). Read on for blogospheric descriptions and reaction: Weathercraft by Jim Woodring 104-page black & white 7" x 9.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-340-8 "Anecdotal as this is, I’ve heard absolutely nothing but good things about this new Jim Woodring project, a 104-page return to his signature Frank character, although the story itself focuses on damned, slovenly humanoid swine thingy Manhog as he taps into…
Gilbert Hernandez covers Kristin Hersh’s memoir Rat Girl
I was excited to see this photo posted on Twitter by Kristin Hersh yesterday, with Gilbert Hernandez's cover art for her upcoming memoir Rat Girl, to be released by Penguin in the U.S. on August 31. Besides being a phenomenal songwriter and performer with Throwing Muses, 50FOOTWAVE and solo, Kristin is one of the best storytellers and writers in the performing arts biz, no lie, and she has some amazing tales to tell. This book is a must-get. UPDATE: I just found out it was colored by our own Jacob Covey! It just keeps getting better.
Comics Critics Unite at Skylight Books!
BEN SCHWARTZ, SAMMY HARKHAM, and ROBERT FIORE discuss BEST AMERICAN COMICS CRITICISM at SKYLIGHT BOOKS! WHEN: Thursday, 05/27/2010 | 7:30pm – 9:30pm Ben Schwartz, editor of the new anthology Best American Comics Criticism, will discuss comics and comics criticism with Kramers Ergot editor Sammy Harkham and comics critic Robert Fiore at L.A.'s SKYLIGHT BOOKS! Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont AvenueLos Angeles, California 90027 UPDATE! Just added: JOE MATT and BRIAN DOHERTY!
