Chocolate Cheeks for 2/8/08

Friday means a new installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks!" This week's strip finds the Yikes tykes sportin' and stylin'. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

Show and Tell, Pt. 2

More goodness from my Sanctum Santorum… A gift from Johnny Ryan, patterned after a parody from the back cover of Angry Youth Comix #1:    Two business card drawings I picked up at a con a few years ago for a couple of bucks each. I know nothing about either cartoonist, but I've always wanted to know what a little baby who looks ready to fight has to do with a strip called "Off the Record":  Here's a Dan Clowes drawing of Richie Rich's nemesis that graced a package he sent me many years ago:   And a gorgeous Al Columbia panel that Al gave…

Show and Tell, Pt. 1

Evan Dorkin's recent, generous blog posts sharing convention sketches he's collected from the likes of Los Bros and Clowes have inspired me to share some small stuff I have at home in my studio that will fit on my teensy scanner and otherwise might just sit in here until I die and my wife or daughter sell it all on eBay. First up, here's a card Evan himself gave me on the legendary Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Cruise, which has been on my bulletin board ever since. I will collect one day. Here's a piece I picked up at…

Now in stock: More Old Jewish Comedians by Drew Friedman

More Old Jewish ComediansBy Drew Friedman This comprehensive collection of portraiture of Jewish comedians is a sequel to 2006's wildly popular Old Jewish Comedians, which earned Friedman raves from Jerry Lewis, Howard Stern, The Believer, Entertainment Weekly and many more, and earned Friedman his own roast at New York's legendary Friar's Club. This all-new collection includes the famous (Woody Allen, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Soupy Sales, etc.), the not-so-famous (Jerry Stiller, Zeppo & Gummo Marx, Larry Storch, Zero Mostel, etc.) and the largely unknown (Molly Picon, Herbie Faye, Jan Milton, etc.). The Reuben Award-winning Friedman, one of the great caricaturists…

Now in stock: Shag: A to Z by Shag

Shag: A to ZBy Shag Shag: A to Z presents, quite simply, 26 original paintings corresponding to the letters of the alphabet. Each painting is accompanied by a short verse extolling the pleasures of a hedonistic lifestyle and the virtues of overindulgence. Shag has spent the last decade creating a body of work based on his idiomatic aesthetic preferences, a world of mid 20th century modern architecture and design, populated by hedonists, supplicants, and indifferent women. A BLAB! Storybook. 32-page full-color 10" x 10" hardcover $14.95Order Now!

Now in stock: Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees by Tony Millionaire

Maakies with the Wrinkled KneesBy Tony Millionaire Drinky Crow may be the drunken star of the weekly comic strip Maakies, but more often than not, he plays straight man to the hapless ape, Uncle Gabby. Here is the newest collection of Tony Millionaire's strip, never before published in book form. The suicide jokes may come less frequently than in earlier years, but the comedy and superb drawing style are at their peak, as is the volume of triple-X cartoon booze consumed. Maakies features the comical adventures of a drunken crow on the high seas, blending vaudeville-style humor and a breathtaking…