Click on through to see it on the Invisibleman blog to which Sara contributes.
Blogosphere roundup for 8/15/08
Apologies for the late update — technical difficulties and all that. This week's reviews: • Joe McCulloch, AKA Jog, takes a good look at Tim Lane's Abandoned Cars • Joe/Jog also looks at Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes • Sequart examines Explainers by Jules Feiffer • Retailer Mike Sterling says Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman is "all you need to know about the new comics coming in this week," and then promptly sells out of them! Sequart looks at the issue too • This week's coverage of Strange and Stranger: The World of…
TONIGHT! Fantagraphics & Merge Records Present…
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS & MERGE RECORDS PRESENT: TOWN OF MIRRORS: A Robert Pollard Book Release Party and Art Exhibition at the MERGE RECORDS HQ Friday, August 15, 6PM DURHAM, N.C. — The Merge Records HQ will be hosting Dayton, Ohio’s Robert Pollard on Aug. 15th for Town of Mirrors, an art exhibition and book release party celebrating the release of Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard, to be published in August by Seattle’s Fantagraphics Books. Town of Mirrors will be the inaugural art show in Merge’s downtown Durham office as part of Durham’s Third Friday, a monthly downtown…
Sexual harrassment at Comic-Con
I may have witnessed one of the incidents of sexual harrassment at this year's Comic-Con described by our good friend and colleague John DiBello in his commentary posted on Kevin Church's blog [CORRECTION] on his hooved friend Bully's blog (oops, my RSS reader picked up the cross-post before the original post) — either that, or I witnessed an incident in addition to the ones he describes. John's comments are right on — I strongly encourage you to go check them out.
Sneak peek video & photos: Where Demented Wented
Is it still a "sneak peek" if the book is already available? If you haven't seen it yet, sure! Today we're bringing you a belated video and photo teaser of Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes, the first-ever collection of work from the controversial underground/outsider cartoonist. Watch as I try to flip past the most blatantly NSFW material! View the video above (or click here if it doesn't show up), and take a closer look in our photo gallery.
Kim Thompson’s "Vingt sur 20" lecture
"La Semaine de la Bande Dessinée – A Week Celebrating the French Graphic Novel" got off to a great start last night at the Alliance Française of Seattle, as a standing-room-only crowd gathered to see our own Kim Thompson present his slide lecture "Vingt sur 20: French Comics from Goscinny to Satrapi," an informative and entertaining overview of 20 artists who transformed la bande desinée from a children's medium into "the ninth art." We are working on presenting this slideshow in interactive format, with audio, here on the Fantagrahpics website in the near future, so stay tuned! And don't forget that this…
Daniel Clowes Does Seattle Aug. 29!
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery proudly presents the return of Daniel Clowes on August 29. His appearance marks the premiere of Ghost World: The Special Edition. The reception will feature an exhibition of Clowes’ meticulously rendered original graphics related to the book, as well as a brief discussion of the artist's cinematic approach to cartooning moderated by Fantagraphics Books co-publisher Gary Groth. Admission is free, as always. Please join us on August 29, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM to welcome this extraordinary artist. Click here for more details and the full media release! (NOTE: The exclusive limited-edition silkscreen print shown above will…
Sketchbook #79
Courtesy Peter Bagge*: * Drawn during his YEAH! days.
SUBLIFE unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con 2008
L to R: Gary Groth & Mike Baehr cltuch the first copies as Zuniga looks on. Zuniga, Kim Thompson, John Pham & Raina Further inspection by Gary & Mike Kim & John examine the print quality Tim Hensley (in hat), Kim & John John & Raina discuss John, Raina and Tim jawin' about the binding
FantaTube
A quick note to those of you who are on The YouTube: we've just uploaded over a dozen of our recent video previews that have heretofore been hosted only on Flickr. We like the video quality on Flickr better, but we know there's lots of you on YouTube, too, so please, watch and enjoy. By the way, we'd like to encourage those of you with your own blogs and websites to use our Flickr preview images and embed our videos, if you so desire. It's all kosher, so don't be shy.
