Rory Root called me on Friday afternoon and left me a voice mail and told me we could just catch up on Monday. On Saturday, Rory slipped into a coma after emergency surgery and never woke up. He passed away this afternoon. I don't want to write this now but know I should because I will miss Rory and he needs to be remembered as the kind soul and legend in his field that he was. Like many other people I know (including Ed Brubaker, Sophie Crumb, Adrian Tomine, Charles Brownstein and others) Rory encouraged me in this business at a…
Mark Todd show
Sac(f)re(ya) Blue!
On behalf of everyone at Fantagraphics, I'd like to welcome the newest member to our extended family: Freya Blue Covey, born Friday, May 16. She and Mommy Liz are healthy and happy and beautiful, as Freya is, as you can see, beautiful and has considerably more hair than her pop, Mr. Jacob Covey.
Dennis the Menace – Introduction by Brian Walker
This introduction is reprinted in its entirety from Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1952, the first volume in our comprehensive collection of Dennis the Menace daily strips. This volume is available in a handsome, brick-like hardcover and, now, an affordable softcover edition. {product_snapshot:id=1483,true,false,true,left} One afternoon, in October 1950, Hank Ketcham was working on a cartoon for The Saturday Evening Post when he heard a commotion coming from the bedroom area of his new home in Carmel, California. His wife Alice suddenly burst into the studio and exclaimed, “Your son is a MENACE!” Four-year-old Dennis Lloyd Ketcham, who was supposed…
Sketchbook #43
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.
