You have exactly one-week to go over to the Comics Journal website and waste perfectly valuable work time reading an interview with Paul Karasik about Fletcher Hanks. Hanks is featured on the cover of the Journal's Best of the Year issue and they are offering the contents on-line for free this week only as a promotion. Also, if you in in NYC this coming weekend, Paul will be signing books at Jim Hanley's Universe on Friday, March 14 from 5-7. After the Karasik signing, head on over to Rocketship in Brooklyn for a Hotwire nightcap at 8PM! …and then on Saturday, March 15, Karasik will be giving a workshop on "Comics Deconstruction" at SPLAT:…
Market speculators take note
VARIANT COVER ALERT! This June, we're publishing Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button, a 720-page bombshell of a graphic novel. In a cunning gambit to milk the market for all it's worth, Dash and art director Jacob Covey have come up with a masterstroke of economic manipulation: The Bottomless Belly Button will be published with two different covers! The Bottomless Belly Button tells the story of the Loony family. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. The announcement sparks a week-long Loony family reunion at Maggie and David's creepy (and possibly…
Jim B. opening at Tigertail
Here's a few pics of the walls of Seattle's Tigertail, which currently are hosting a lovely Jim Blanchard exhibition…
Chocolate Cheeks for 3/7/08 (on 3/10/08)
This installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks" comes to you slightly tardy and in glorious black and white! In this week's strip: the perils of fame. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)
BALLS OUT!
Portland's Grass Hut is expanding their space and celebrating with one helluva art show tonight. Souther Salazar 's piece above– More info on their site.
Drew Friedman at Skylight Books 3/29 with Special Guests
DREW FRIEDMAN AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS: MORE OLD JEWISH COMEDIANS • MARCH 29th WITH BEN SCHWARTZ & SPECIAL GUESTS WHO: Drew Friedman WHAT: Discussion, Q&A and book signing WHERE: Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Ave. • Los Angeles, CA 90027 • 323.660.1175 tel. WHEN: Saturday, March 29, 5PM “Drew Friedman isn’t just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say thank you for the pleasure.” — Sarah Silverman Join cartoonist DREW FRIEDMAN along with BEN SCHWARTZ and other special guests (TBA)…
Hey look, the new Peanuts book
Look what arrived at our offices yesterday: advance copies of The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968. It's due in stores in late April; we should have it available to order here on the website a couple of weeks before that. Stay tuned! You sure are, Snoopy, you sure are.
Brooklyn: tonight’s the night…
… it's gonna be alright…
Greatest comics event ever!
I wish I had been there. Daily Crosshatch was. So were a lot of other people. We should have some pics soon, but in the meantime, click the above link NOW!
MOME Interview 5: Andrice Arp
The latest specimen in our ongoing series of Mome interview web reprints is Andrice Arp, in a discussion with Gary Groth conducted in May 2006 and originally printed in Mome Vol. 5; read it in its entirety right here. Previously: Paul Hornschemeier, Gabrielle Bell, Kurt Wolfgang and Jonathan Bennett. Next up: Tim Hensley.
