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.
The Bleckerellificator
Waste some time here.
Flora’s Incredible Flutist
News from Jim Flora archivist Irwin Chusid: The Incredible Flutist is an uncirculated 1953-54 record cover painting by Flora that was intended for a 7-inch RCA Victor EP. Jim Flora Art LLC is offering a limited edition fine art print. According to a purchase order discovered in the Flora archives, the work was commissioned by RCA in late 1953, but there's no indication it was finished, accepted, or used on a commercially released EP. This painting has not previously been published or offered in any form. An alternate version appeared in the book The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora. Only…
Stumptown 2008 images
Fantagraphics was in full effect at the 2008 Stumptown Comics Fest. Your humble reporter was only there for Saturday of the two-day event, but had a smashing time (and went 200% over budget buying comics, art & t-shirts — yikes). Here's a brief video clip of our table: Pals and table-mates J.R. Williams and Jim Blanchard: Andrice Arp signs issues of Mome at the Fantagraphics table: Georgene and Robert Goodin: Mome contributor Tom Kaczynski: For the full set of photos on Flickr, click here. Stay tuned for new sketchbook scans.
Spanish MOME
Ediciones La Cupula of Barcelona has just published the second issue of their spanish-language edition of MOME. It's pretty unusual for an anthology to get translated into foreign editions, so I just had to Flog these:
Bob Levin talks to Tom Spurgeon
Most Outrageous author Bob Levin talked to Tom Spurgeon over at the Comics Reporter yesterday. This is your must-read interview of the day, from an author you probably haven't read, about a subject you probably thought you had no interest in. Why, then? Because in Most Outrageous, as Spurgeon so aptly put it, "Levin has written what may be the first completely unforgettable book about a modern cartoonist."
Sketchbook #29
Courtesy Johnny Ryan: The funny thing is, Johnny really does kind of have ripped abs.
Devotio Moderno May 1 NYC
A new Joe Coleman show opens this weekend in NYC… Speaking of Joe, if you don't have this comic, you're missing one of the truly great oddities in comic book history:
