Presenting the great Tim Hensley:
April 18 in Brooklyn: Karasik / Newgarden
If you're in New York, or will be in New York for the big New York Comicon, you won't want to miss this: If you've never heard Mark or Paul speak, you'll be hard-pressed to find two guys who can talk comics any better. And if you haven't checked out Desert Island yet, by all accounts you should. Book Signing and "Show and Tell" with Garbage Pail Kids creator Mark Newgarden and cartoonist/archivist Paul Karasik at Williamsburg's newest comic and book store, Desert Island Desert Island is pleased to announce its inaugural event, a book signing and "show and tell" featuring Garbage Pail Kids…
Griffyvision
This has been floating around the inter-tubes recently: a TV interview with Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith that ran on WFSB (channel 3, Hartford, CT) Eyewitness News on November 7, 2003. Dig that close-up camera work!
The Shtick Never Stops!
The audio isn't great, but it's there. Here's the legendary Milton Berle cock joke courtesy Freddie Roman at Drew Friedman's Friar's Club event:
Sketchbook #6
A Cathy Malkasian sketch from Comicon 2007.
Millionaire art show in PDX
Anyone heading to Portland for Stumptown later this month might wanna get to town a couple of nights early for this one:
Tony Millionaire’s Portrait of My Unborn Baby Girl.
I am so grateful that my little girl will be born into a world where she'll think it's perfectly normal for her to have a portrait of herself done by one of the greatest men-of-ink alive. Thank you Tony Millionaire! (T minus 27 days til fatherhood… and I'm praying she'll have lost that stubble by the time kindergarten starts up.)
Fantagraphics attends New York Comic Con!
FANTAGRAPHICS ATTENDS NEW YORK COMIC CON APRIL 18-20 NEW BOOKS, AUTHORS HIGHLIGHT FIRST-EVER NY COMIC CON APPEARANCE New York Comic Con, taking place April 18-20 at the Javits Center in New York City, is the East Coast’s biggest popular culture convention, and in 2008 Fantagraphics Books — the west coast’s biggest alternative comics publisher — will join the ranks of exhibitors for the first time. Publishers Gary Groth and Kim Thompson will be on hand all weekend, hosting round-the-clock signings for several authors and debuting several new titles at the show. Authors signing at the Fantagraphics tables at NY Comic…
Read the Rebel Visions introduction
Now reprinted here on the Fantagraphics website for your reading enjoyment: the full Introduction to the forthcoming, revised softcover edition of Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 by Patrick Rosenkranz. It actually comprises 3 sections: the Foreword, "The Setting" and "Distant Early Warnings." Read it here.
More Flickr Fun, Friedman style
Flickr user lilylord has some fantastic photos of Drew Friedman taken during his visit to L.A., including the above, with Drew approving of Johnny Ryan's homage (while Glenn Bray gives a dissenting opinion).
