Peter Bagge sends along the following message: "Attention all Twin-Cities freaks & geeks: I'll be attending this up-coming FallCon, held at the Minnesota Fairgrounds between Mpls and St. Paul this upcoming weekend. So please feel free to show up and spend all your hard-earned money on my useless crap! Hope to see you there!" http://midwestcomicbook.com/
Hans Rickheit Tour Continues This Week
TODAY! October 5th (4-6pm)That's Entertainment244 Park AveWorcester, MA(508) 755 4207 TUESDAY! October 6th (7-8pm)Rabbit Hole805 Main StreetFitchburg MA(978) 345 0040 WEDNESDAY! October 7th (4-7pm)Casablanca Comics151 Middle Street #2Portland ME(207) 780 1676 SATURDAY! October 10th (7pm)Quimby's1854 W North AveChicago, IL(773) 342-0910 SUNDAY! October 11th (2pm)Vault of Midnight219 S Main StAnn Arbor, MI(734) 998-1413
Monte Schulz in L.A. Saturday night!
Saturday, Oct. 3, 5PM Skylight Books1818 N. Vermont Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90027Tel: 323.660.1175
Webcomics update for 10/2/09
It's crazy Friday nite webcomics synchronicity — two of this week's strips feature diet tips! Blecky's been picking hers up from Southeast Asian folktales in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan…. …while Chubby takes a traditional American approach in this week's strip from Steven Weissman's Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures… …and we break with the theme with a trip to Norway and more deep thinking in our Monday-Friday Rocky strips by Martin Kellerman. Enjoy!
Daily OCD: 10/2/09
Friday Online Commentary & Diversions fun: • Quote of the week: "Right at the outset of the show, the con's lasting image was burned in my brain: Kim Thompson and Gary Groth carrying a wooden palette piled high with empty boxes to the exit door by our table. They weren't fucking around. No interns, no 'assistants.' Now that's what I call, 'Keeping it Real'." – from Frank Santoro's SPX report at Comics Comics • Review: "I've gone on record several times here saying how much I love [Jaime Hernandez's] Ti-Girls saga [in Love and Rockets: New Stories] and how it…
Second Saturday Art Attack Haunts Georgetown on October 10
The Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack returns on Saturday, October 10. Join us from 6:00 to 9:00 PM for this festive cultural and social outing in the heart of Seattle's historic industrial arts quarter. Among the highlights on Saturday, October 10: Industrial sculpted paintings by Alex Rue and an original Butoh performance by Danse Perdue at Georgetown Arts Center; an exhibition and book signing by Los Angeles cartoonist Johnny Ryan with a provocative "Prison Pit" performance piece by Ardent Vein at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery; Tina Witherspoon of Glamspoon unveils her new "Frida" collection with an exhibition of Dia de…
What you’re missing
Carol Hernandez is at it again, posting some amazing historical photos on the Love and Rockets/Hernandez Bros. Facebook page, including the above snapshot of J.R. Williams, Robert Crumb, Gilbert Hernandez, and Michael Dougan leaving their marks on the then-new (1989) Fantagraphics delivery van. Also making guest appearances: Hank Ketcham, Dave Stevens, Paul Westerberg, Glenn Danzig, Vampira and many more. If you're not a Facebook fan of L&R, you are MISSING OUT.
Bill Mauldin presentation/book signing with Todd DePastino at Cartoon Art Museum tomorrow
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco welcomes author Todd DePastino on Friday, October 2, 2009 from 7:00 to 9:00pm for a special presentation on the life and art of multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin. This presentation is based on DePastino's excellent and critically acclaimed biography Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front (W.W. Norton, 2008). DePastino is also editor of our complete collection of Mauldin's World War II cartoons, Willie & Joe: The WWII Years. More info here.
Daily OCD: 10/1/09
October, when kingdoms rise, and kingdoms fall, but Online Commentary & Diversions goes on and on: • Review: "If the world of alt-comics feels appealing but intimidatingly vast (what doesn’t these days), MOME is the perfect place to start. … The volume is thick, slick and printed in what looks like Technicolor. An anthology is only as good as the sensibilities of those who compile it, of course, so it’s worth noting that a subscription of MOME equals four issues per year of work culled from the depths by an outfit that not only has keen vision in such matters,…
Monte Schulz in Orange County TONIGHT!
Thursday, Oct. 1, 6PM Laguna Beach Books1200 South Coast Highway, Suite 105Laguna Beach, CA 92651Tel: 949.494.4779
