It seems Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared this Paul Hornschemeier week in New York City, beginning tomorrow! First up, we have this in the early evening: ABOVE: Paul Hornschemeier, Dialectic on Preference, 2004 Dave Eggers curatesLots Of Things Like ThisApril 2 – May 10, 2008 Opening reception:Wednesday, April 2, 6-8pm With works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonard Cohen, David Berman, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Georges Braque, Jeffrey Brown, R. Crumb, Henry Darger, Marcel Duchamp, CM Evans, Shephard Fairey, David Godbold, Alasdair Gray, Philip Guston, Paul Hornschemeier, Jay Howell, Chris Johanson, Maira Kalman, Kenneth Koch, David Mamet, Quenton Miller, Tucker Nichols, Alice Notley, Ron…
Sketchbook #4
Courtesy Dame Darcy (sorry, this was a tough one to photograph without getting any glare):
Monthly site special: Fantagraphics’ Economic Stimulus Package
Good ol' G.W. Bush hopes to kick-start the U.S. economy by giving everyone a tax rebate this year. We say, what better way to use your windfall than by affirming your freedom to read great comics! In honor of Tax Day on April 15, save 15% on select books in our Politics & World Affairs category all throughout the month of April 2008! Whether fictional satire skewering our malevolent and/or less-than-competent leaders, journalistic comics reporting from conflict-torn regions, or trenchant commentary on societal issues, these books present the finest in topical cartooning and exemplify our time-honored tradition of freedom of…
Photos from Drew Friedman event in L.A.
Our pal Pam Noles attended Drew Friedman's discussion and book signing for More Old Jewish Comedians at L.A.'s Skylight books (with guests Ben Schwartz and portrait subject Carl Ballantine) on Saturday and sent us a whole bunch of photos which we've loaded up on Flickr. Read Pam's account of the event here!
The greatest Herriman tributes ever (part four)
Here are the last of the Krazy Kat strips drawn by seven-to-eleven-year old Italian kids, courtesy of their teacher Alessandro Santi. (See previous FLOG!s for batches one, two and three; see the entire set in a slideshow on Flickr.) Incidentally, Alessandro asked us if we were going to reprint the Eclipse volumes featuring the first nine years of Krazy Kat Sundays, and the answer to that is yes, starting in 2009. But we're going to gang them together into three big KK volumes, each containing three years' worth.
The great Al Jaffee
The New York Times had a great feature yesterday on one of America's greatest living cartoonists, the inimitable Al Jaffee.
Sketchbook #3
Courtesy Ben Catmull:
Ted Stearn has a website
And it's quite handsome.
Magik Show in PDX
The Magik Show opens this Thursday (April 3) at the Pony Club Gallery in Portland, OR. This show is the first to be curated by Zack Soto and it's a pretty great line-up of mostly comics folks. "Stereotopfer" (his gocco prints above) has conveniently listed and linked all the artists on his Flickr page. I found a few other pieces online: Mike Bertino, Calvin Wong, and Jason Miles.
Sketchbook #2
#2 in a series. This is the most recent entry in my almost decade-old book, by Drew Friedman:
