Fantagraphics Blog

  Evan Dorkin has posted some 20-year-old con sketches he's collected from Los Bros Hernandez and Daniel Clowes. 

The New Yorker has a flickr pool with entries in their aforementioned Eustace Tilley redesign contest. I was partial to this one, courtesy robotalphabet:   And here's a fine contribution from our own Wilfred Santiago:

At the Thought Balloonists blog, Craig Fischer offers an in-depth analysis of Thierry Groensteen's theories of comics semiotics and structure, using this page from Jason's (out of print) graphic novel Hey, Wait… as an example:

"Congratulations to Fantagraphics for being the best-represented North American comics publisher I encountered in Japan: two stores." Thanks, Chris.

Timed propitiously for the imminent arrival of the new printing of Small Favors Vol. 1, OregonLive.com has a great profile of Colleen Coover.

Our Eric Reynolds made the scene at the Frye Museum for the gala opening of "R. Crumb's Underground" and has the photos to prove it — click here for the whole set on Flickr. I also uploaded a few of Eric's photos from Ellen Forney's talk at Comixtravaganza — see those here.

  "He devoured everything from history to biography, and was also fond of reading Dennis the Menace comic books imported for him from the US. People asking for autographs were greeted with stern silence."

  Happy 20th birthday to our fellow purveyors of counterculture, SubPop Recordings. 

It's always interesting to see how an artist's style evolves but I was as surprised by this cartoonist's early work as I was when I saw Ware's Floyd Farland. You might recognize the lettering in this sequence since we had to translate it using his modern hand-lettered font. There's a zombie up there and here we have this pop culture reworking starring Scully and Mulder in a quirky short. Anthropomorphic animals and Hemingway as a character? He draws them a lot differently these days but you've probably guessed who it is by now. "Pocket Full of Rain" goes to press…

Tom Spurgeon over at the Comics Reporter beat me to the punch a bit on this, but yes, our new website features artist interviews in various formats for your reading, listening, and watching enjoyment. Our brand-newest addition is Gary Groth's interview with Paul Hornschemeier from Mome Vol. 1, reprinted here on the website in its entirety! And yes, we will be adding EVERY Mome interview to the website over the next few weeks — stay tuned right here for announcements as each one goes live. In the meantime, you can catch up on what's already there, including some classic vintage…