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…
Sketchbook #41
Courtesy Jason Little:
Next week is a good week…
… to be in Oslo.
The Greatest
I came across this incredible Will Elder photo this morning, looking for some nice Elder photos in our MAD PLAYBOY OF ART files, to give the Los Angeles Times for its obituary, which I'm told will run tomorrow. Was there ever a man who embodied the vivaciousness of his work more perfectly?
Feiffer at the Strand – video
Here is the Strand bookstore’s video widget, from which you can watch last night’s Jules Feiffer presentation. (As a bonus, you can also watch Gary Panter with Jonathan Lethem.) If you come across this blog entry in the future and don’t see the Feiffer link (or there’s a live video feed going on), click the “highlights” tab; if you still don’t see the link, click here to access the video on the Strand website. (And if you keep navigating the “highlights” tab, you’ll find Alexander Theroux‘s reading from last February as well.)
EW on Willie & Joe
Ken Tucker talks Willie & Joe over at EW.com.
Feiffer Explains
Here's some pics from last night's Jules Feiffer event at the Strand, and we'll have video up soon as well:
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