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Slate on Bill Mauldin
In your second of two links lifted from today's ¡Journalista!, Slate has a slideshow feature on Willie & Joe cartoonist Bill Mauldin.
Debbie Drechsler interview
In your first of two links lifted from today's ¡Journalista!, pop culture blogger Tim O'Shea talks to Debbie Drechsler about Daddy's Girl.
Woodring’s Beast
Here's a detail of a detail that Jim Woodring posted on his blog of his contribution to Jacob Covey's forthcoming second Beasts! book. Whoa:
Now available: Mome Vol. 1-10 Mega-Bundle
Mome Vol. 1-10 Mega-Bundle By various artists; edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds If you're interested in what's "happening" and "now" in comics, there's one place to turn: Mome, our quarterly anthology of the best in contemporary, cutting-edge cartooning. With so many volumes in print, it can be difficult to know where to start… so we've made it easy for you by offering Volumes 1-10 in one convenient package at nearly 1/3 OFF the combined cover prices! Don't miss out on this incredible deal. Collectively, these 10 volumes of Mome present work from over two dozen of comics' finest…
Now available: The Complete Love and Rockets Library Vol. 1
The Complete Love and Rockets Library Vol. 1 By Los Bros. Hernandez Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets was finally released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story, originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. 1 from 1982 to 1996, in perfect chronological order. Now that the series is complete, we are pleased to offer all seven volumes — nearly 2,000 pages of incredible comics — for a special package price. Seven black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcovers, 1,944 pages total • $84.99…
Los Angeles Cartoonist’s Cat Bird Up For Adoption
Nothing directly to do with comics but Steven Weissman writes on his Flickr page: "We rescued this kitten out of a bird's nest in one of our cypress trees this weekend. We're taking care of it for now, but if anyone wants her, please let us know. She's cute, sleeping through the night and maybe 3-4 weeks old." Are you going to pass up the opportunity to adopt a cat who thinks it's a bird??
Now in stock: Amor Y Cohetes
Amor Y Cohetes – A Love and Rockets Book By Los Bros. Hernandez To a very great extent, Love and Rockets is synonymous with Hoppers’ Maggie & Hopey and Palomar’s Luba & Carmen & Heraclio & Tonantzin… but there was always more to L&R than that. Amor Y Cohetes finally collects together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love and Rockets series — a dizzying array of styles and approaches that re-confirms these groundbreaking cartoonists’ place in the history of comics. The book leads off with…
Now in stock: Mome Vol. 11 – Summer 2008
Mome Vol. 11 – Summer 2008 By various artists; edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds Vol. 11 of our acclaimed anthology series welcomes Killoffer, the acclaimed French cartoonist whose work has previously only been seen in the acclaimed collection 176 Apparitions of Killoffer. Killoffer delivers a new 12-page comic as well as front and back covers. MOME also features returning regulars Al Columbia, Kurt Wolfgang, Ray Fenwick, Eleanor Davis, Dash Shaw, John Hankiewicz, Emile Bravo, Andrice Arp, Tom Kaczynski, and Paul Hornschemeier. Plus, newcomers Conor O'Keefe and Nate Neal, as well as an interview with Ray Fenwick by Gary…
Bookslut interviews Josh Simmons
Bookslut has a new interview with Josh Simmons up this morning, talking long-term about Jessica Farm.
