Courtesy Rich Tommaso:
From our Fridge:
Hate & skate
; More photos from Saturday's launch party for the Peter Bagge-designed Manik Skateboards at our storefront can be seen here on Flickr.
Bagge & Co. in PDX June 5
Sketchbook #42
Courtesy Roger Langridge:
Jeremy Eaton’s “Black Weather”
Read it here.
Read James Sturm’s intro to Jason’s Pocket Full of Rain
Here's one more thing to whet your appetite for the arrival of Jason's Pocket Full of Rain: today we've posted the introduction by James Sturm here on our website for your reading enjoyment.
Chocolate Cheeks for 5/16/08
It's time for your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip: checkers with Chubby Cheeks. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)
Blog review roundup for 5/16/08
Here's what's come up on our ego-surfing adventures this week: • Jog on Funeral of the Heart by Leah Hayes and Insomnia #3 by Matt Broersma (plus a couple of non-Fanta titles) • Jeff Trexler compares 1950s Dennis the Menace to Blue Velvet • Notes from the Junkyard on Bob Powell's "The Wall of Flesh," which appears in The Comics Journal #290 • Scrubbles.net on The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960 (Vol. 5) (plus a handful of movies) • Comics And…Other Imaginary Tales on Castle Waiting by Linda Medley • Ruben Bolling on our forthcoming Humbug collection • The Daily Cross Hatch…
Pocket Full of Rain by Jason – Introduction by James Sturm
{product_snapshot:id=1484,true,false,true,left} MY FIRST INTRODUCTION to the work of the Norwegian cartoonist known only as Jason was a four-page story he drew for Comix 2000, an international collection of pantomime comics. Out of all of the works in this massive anthology (the title was also its page count and year of publication) it was Jason’s four pages that proved most memorable. The story begins with a bird/human hobo coming upon a bed in the woods. Though a bit surprised, the hobo nevertheless stops to sleep. As he slumbers, two death-faced humanoid birds construct a proper bedroom around the slumbering hobo then…
