Anders, as he occasionally does, posts more moleskine pages.
Strangeco Stranger strangeness
From Jim Woodring comes word that our pals at Strangeco have created an online gallery of Jim's panel-cartoon-of-sorts that used to run in The Stranger a few years back. Oh yes.
Art of the Internet.
Knowing of my own Ninja Turtles sketchbook, Mike Baehr pointed me to this sketchbook with several TMNT interpretations from folks at Heroes Con. Turns out it's the sketchbook of SubSub, aka Joseph Lambert, one of the CCS grads. Impressed by the accuracy of the Krang illustration I looked into Matt Bernier's website and discovered he's friends with Jon Vermilyea, one of my favorite cartoonists/illustrators, which pointed me to Jon's portrait of Washington on the Vice website. If you're interested they've got five more portraits from people like Laura Park and Bald Eagles. But not by Kaz Strzepek who did…
Cheesecake photos
Hoppin' times in Georgetown last night with the opening of our "Now Serving Cheesecake" exhibit of classic pin-up cartoon art. Above, Angielena Chamberlain models for artist Augie Pagan's live pin-up drawing demonstration; click here for the rest of the photos!
I love my neighborhood.
Wonder Twin powers, ACTIVATE! And yes, they're naked. Unfortunately, I can't find the flickr account I grabbed this from — if you see this, let me know so I can link to your excellent pool of naked cyclist photos.
Blogosphere roundup for 6/27/08
Our ego-surfing results for the week: • Independent Weekly profiles Robert Pollard, visual artist, as collected in Town of Mirrors (link via Largehearted Boy) • Speaking of Largehearted Boy, Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button is included in LHB's "Summer Reading Suggestions." More BBB coverage includes a profile of Dash in Canada's National Post, a starred review from Publishers Weekly (scroll to the bottom), a review by The Daily Cross Hatch, the previously-linked mention in the Wall Street Journal, another profile (alongside Jason Lutes and Guy Delisle) in the Christian Science Monitor, and Kevin Church calling the book "easily the best…
Chocolate Cheeks for 6/27/08
It's time for your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip: rockin' and rivalry-in'. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)
Gotham Apartments
I got this email from Eric Reynolds: "I love these pics so much, they're beautiful and heart-breaking at the same time. I sent these to Jeremy [Eaton] and he said, 'I could write a novel based on that photo of Captain America and the Hulk sitting in their respective apartments.'" Everyone seems so lonely. So human. I could stare at the image above for days. Even the way Wonder Woman is lying in the middle of this house of men, possibly masturbating, is accidental art on the grandest scale. Thom Zahler was a lucky kid.
Bagge in Portland OR, TONIGHT & this weekend
Peter Bagge writes and sez: It'll be an event-clogged weekend in PDX for me this upcoming weekend, all revolving around a 2 day, all-day teaching seminar I'll be holding at the Portland Northwest College of Art on Sat, June 28th and Sun. June 29th (Jessica Abel, Matt Madden and Daniel Dufford will be teaching courses there all this week as well). I also will be signing copies of the APOCALYPSE NERD book collection at Powell's bookstore on Friday the 27th at 7:30 PM. On Saturday the 28th at 5pm, I'm scheduled to take part in an "Interactive discussion with comic…
Strange Bedfellows Dept.
In case anyone is still debating whether comics are in a heyday: Dash "Mr. Shaw" Shaw featured on the Wall Street Journal website.
