You are invited to two exciting Bay Area events featuring acclaimed Berkeley author Bob Levin, whose new book, Most Outrageous, details the unsettling story of the life of Hustler cartoonist Dwaine Tinsley, creator of “Chester the Molester.” When Larry Flynt’s Superstar was accused of sexually abusing his teenaged daughter for five years, the prosecution brought in hundreds of Tinsley’s cartoons as evidence. Levin details this unprecedented case, and Tinsley’s family life, with unquestionable sophistication, exhaustive journalistic research, and humanity. WHO: Bob Levin WHAT: Most Outrageous Book Release Party, with author reading & signing as well as hors d’ouevres and no…
What is… good taste?
He's not just a human hard drive of information. He has good taste to boot. All-Time Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings raves about our Love & Rockets books over at his blog.
Sketchbook #10
Courtesy Anders Nilsen.
Now in stock: Most Outrageous by Bob Levin
Most Outrageous: The Trials and Trespasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester By Bob Levin In May 1989, Dwaine Tinsley stood at the summit of an unlikely career. The product of a broken, trailer-trash marriage, he was a high school dropout who had decided to become a professional cartoonist while serving a six-year sentence in a Maryland prison for burglary. As cartoon editor for Larry Flynt’s notorious Hustler magazine, he had assembled a staff of pen-and-Wite-Out-wielding Lenny Bruces whose unprecedentedly offensive socio-sexual cartoons had spearheaded that publication's fight against the forces of censorship and repression that sought to overthrow…
Variousness…
Jeet Heer has a short look at the Underappreciated and Essential Francoise Mouly, primarily her influence as an editor from Raw to the New Yorker which is about the most badass resume a person could ever hope for. Just learned that there's an art gallery operating in my neighborhood of Ballard here in Seattle. The Wonderful Union has a show of locals Don and Ryan Clark's work opening on Saturday, the 12th. Or maybe you'd prefer Chicago's Steak Mtn. show. Apparently Threadless now has a gallery… The record breaking Ninja Turtles event. What else were you doing Thursday?
Best web feature of the month
Los Angeles PBS station KCET interviews Jaime Hernandez, Esther Pearl Watson & Mark Todd, Johnny Ryan and Carol Lay about their lives as cartoonists in L.A. in a special series of web shorts. (Pictured above: Johnny "Kittycat" Ryan.)
Sneak peek photos: Mome Vol. 11
We received advance copies of a plethora of upcoming books at the office last week. Time permitting, we'll be bringing you a photographic sneak peek of a different book each day this week! Today we've got Mome Vol. 11: for a Flickr slideshow, click here, or to browse manually, click here.
Jules Feiffer Debuts Explainers at the Strand on May 15
You are invited to the world premiere of Jules Feiffer's long-awaited collection, Explainers, featuring the complete first decade of his legendary and groundbreaking comic strip, Sick, Sick, Sick (and later redubbed Feiffer), from the Village Voice. Feiffer will read from the book and answer questions before signing copies of the deluxe hardcover collection. "Samuel Johnson said he hoped God would think he had made good of his God-given talents. Jules Feiffer need have no dread of such an audit… What has made his services so welcome for so many years now is his possession, in addition to high intelligence, of…
Jules Feiffer Debuts Explainers at the Strand on May 15
You are invited to the world premiere of Jules Feiffer‘s long-awaited collection, Explainers, featuring the complete first decade of his legendary and groundbreaking comic strip, Sick, Sick, Sick (and later redubbed Feiffer), from the Village Voice. Feiffer will read from the book and answer questions before signing copies of the deluxe hardcover collection. “Samuel Johnson said he hoped God would think he had made good of his God-given talents. Jules Feiffer need have no dread of such an audit… What has made his services so welcome for so many years now is his possession, in addition to high intelligence, of…
Humbug behind the scenes
We have a very cool new feature up, suggested by Gary Groth and written by production ace Paul Baresh, tracing the process of restoration of a page from the late-1950s humor magazine Humbug (created and edited, post-MAD, by Harvey Kurtzman) for our forthcoming collection (due in late summer). Check it out!
