Fantagraphics Blog

Gary Groth put the questions to Jonathan Bennett in February 2006 for the interview we printed in Mome Vol. 4; now it's the latest installment of our ongoing series of Mome interview web reprints and you can read it right here. Previously: Paul Hornschemeier, Gabrielle Bell and Kurt Wolfgang. Next up: Andrice Arp.

Attention all Shemp fans! Here's a low budget Oscars-related cartoon produced for Vanity Fair and written by Dana Gould, voiced by Dana and Tom Kenny, and drawn by Peter Bagge.

Portlanders (Oregon, not Maine), take note:

  LEON BEYOND.

Fantagraphics Books & Rocketship are proud to present: A HOTWIRE COMIX RELEASE PARTY & SIGNING! WHO: Jonathon Rosen, Glenn Head, Sam Henderson, Danny Hellman, Mark Newgarden, David Sandlin, Chadwick Whitehead, Craig Yoe, R. Sikyorak, Doug Allen, Marc Dean Veca and other guests t.b.a.! WHAT: HOTWIRE COMICS Vol. 2 Release Party & SigningWHERE: Rocketship, 208 Smith St., Brooklyn, NY 11201WHEN: Friday, Feb. 22, at 8PM Insanity, dementia, stray bullets, hangovers, hillbillies, sci-fi, candy-rods, carnies, Wilhelm Riech, PCP, decayed portraits, Tijuana bibles, gags, mobsters, Mick Jones, zombies, paranoia, orgones, and psychedelia… it's all here! HOTWIRE COMICS Vol. 2 weighs in at 136 pages, 64 in full color,…

…is reality!

Found on Flickr, from user Jessie Johnson. Taken at Comic Relief in Berkeley.

Attention lovers of prose literature: we've put the entire first chapter (along with the indicia and Table of Contents) of Alexander Theroux's novel Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual online as a FREE download (PDF format, 260KB).

  Our pals at PanelToPanel.net are offering an exclusive signed bookplate edition of Jaime Hernandez's forthcoming THE EDUCATION OF HOPEY GLASS. Better yet, everyone who purchases a copy gets entered into a free drawing to win the bookplate's original art by Jaime, while a runner-up will receive a set of L&R trade paperbacks! Meanwhile, here's a new PTP interview with Jaime!

Ellen Forney: Better than Guy Deslisle, on par with George Perez! From last week's Entertainment Weekly.