Jeremy Eaton and I have collaborated on the artwork for the debut release by North Dakota psychedelic duo, The Lousy Tycoons. Read more about this and other Eaton collaborations (with Al Columbia and bestselling novelist Chelsea Cain).
Tardi Part I: I Love Tardi!
One of my all-time favorite cartoonists, and certainly one my favorite European cartoonist of the last 30 years or so, is Jacques Tardi. It's been a source of constant annoyance and sadness to me that so far, every attempt to bring Tardi's work to an English speaking audience has been, at best, a mitigated success, and certainly never a big enough of one to warrant continuation. And it's been years since anyone even tried. So we've seen Dark Horse (in Cheval Noir) and NBM try to launch the Adele Blanc-Sec series, both Fantagraphics (in Graphic Story Monthly back in the…
The Truth Bear
Ladies and gentlemen, torn from the pages of MOME: The Truth Bear, by Ray Fenwick. Read it.
Live Wolverton Podcast This Fri.
Basil Wolverton's son, Monte, will share stories of his father's art and religious beliefs with Mr. Media live this Friday, and Monte will talk calls from listeners, so this is your chance, Wolvertooners. Go here for details.
Tom K’s MOME exhibit pics
I'll have a post later this week about this weekend's fantastic MOME show at MCAD in Minneapolis, but in the meantime, here's Tom K's pics from the totally awesome opening.
Citta of Glass
Each year the Dedica Festival in northern Italy celebrates a single writer. Last year they invited Nadine Gordimer and this year they will raise a glass or two of Chianti to Paul Auster. The graphic novel version of Auster's "City of Glass" has sold out of three separate editions in Italy so the organizers of the event have also invited Paul Karasik to Dedica at the end of March. For the first time Karasik's original panel-by-panel breakdowns of City of Glass will be exhibited and a limited edition of facsimile copies will be sold. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear Auster…
Kerschbaum interviewed
John Kerschbaum is the latest to appear on our favorite comics radio show/podcast, Inkstuds.
Run D(ash)M(iles)C(ho)
An unlikely Dash Shaw-Jason Miles-Frank Cho mash-up. And even more weirdly, an effective one. See more at Miles Manor online.
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