The Pony Club welcomes Zak Sally and Nate Denver tonight for an evening of books, music and destruction. Tuesday July 29th, 6PM Doors, 7PM Music, 8PM Books
Comic-Con 2008 wrap-up
We're still getting back on our feet after the onslaught of intensity that was Comic-Con 2008. As always, we had a blast meeting fans, hosting a load of artist signings, and movin' units. Take a quick video cruise through our booth on Wednesday just before the "preview night" crowd descended: The unqualified hit of the Con for us was the brand-new Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 — we blew through a gross of them, our whole supply, by Saturday afternoon. Other hits of the show were the debuts of Jim Woodring's The Portable Frank and Deitch's Pictorama from the…
Sketchbook #70
Courtesy Gilbert Hernandez:
Dash Shaw & Co. at Rocketship FRIDAY!
B.D. avec D.B.
Here's the official flyer announcing "La Semaine de la Bande Dessinée – A Week Celebrating the French Graphic Novel," supported by Fantagraphics Books, the 4Culture King County Lodging Tax, the Alliance Française of Seattle and the Cultural Development Fund of the Federation of Alliances Françaises USA. Click here for our previous announcement.
Johnny Ryan Fans UNITE!
Good news for my fellow Angry Youth Comix fans (for full details go HERE): New Character Parade features 24 one page comics starring all new soon-to-be icons like Half Man Half Shit, Fuckball, Ralph Waldo Schmegma, Baby Stud, Kenny Kloggins, Rasputin On A Dirtbike, Sherlock Homeless, Butt Douglas and many more. I am so there.
Hidden Gems Sale spotlight: Andrew Zaben
Every day in July we've been spotlighting books from our month-long Hidden Gems Sale, wherein we're featuring some of our under-the-radar backlist titles and encouraging you to try them by offering them at a nice discount of 25% off! The sale is ending, so now is your last chance to take advantage of these great savings! Today we present our final spotlight, featuring two realistic, character-driven books by Andrew Zaben. Dream Big Dreams A promising 100-page debut novel, Dream Big Dreams is a complex narrative about a local bar owner grappling with the decision of whether to sell out to…
Sketchbook #69
Courtesy Jaime Hernandez:
My favorite con pic so far.
From Publishers Weekly's "PW Comics Week." The Hernandez Dynasty: Gilbert, Natalia, and Unca Jaime. As Tom Spurgeon put it this morning, "My friends and I make jokes that everything always comes back to the Hernandez Brothers, but it does." Except now it comes back to the Hernandez Brothers… and Daughters! Update: Photo by Jody Culkin. Thank you!
BWS’ Eisner speech
Blogger Alan David Doane has run the entire transcript of Barry Windsor-Smith's acceptance speech for the Hall of Fame Award he received last Friday night at the Eisners. The speech turned some heads with lines like "[Work-for-hire is] a legal but unethical instrument designed to rape and plunder young talents," and was read by our own Gary Groth (BWS could not attend the con). Congratulations to BWS' award, and kudos for his candor.
