Tom Spurgeon just made my day, and not just because his essential Comics Reporter is back up-and-running. No, I'm talkin' about this photo of Jeff Foxworthy and Wilson Fisk (a.k.a. the fuckin' Kingpin of Crime), from Halloween night circa 1996:
PRINT Magazine talks to Sacco
PRINT Magazine talks Palestine with Joe Sacco.
Matthias Lehmann exhibit
The creator of the acclaimed surreal crime-noir graphic novel Hwy. 115 is half of a joint exhibition opening Saturday January 5 at the Viva Dolor gallery in Lyon, France. Details for Francophones are here.
Lust by Ellen Forney – Exclusive Preview
Riding a wave of accolades for her illustrations in Sherman Alexie’s acclaimed young-adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Ellen Forney returns this winter with a brand new collection of her funny, sexy cartoons. Arriving just in time for Valentine’s Day, it’s… LUST: KINKY ONLINE PERSONAL ADS FROM SEATTLE’S THE STRANGER {product_snapshot:id=735,true,false,true,left}Ellen Forney’s follow-up to her wildly popular I Love Led Zeppelin is a collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet online world of personal classifieds. Forney has for several years been illustrating the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger‘s “Lustlab” classified ads by interpreting…
GOOD on comics
I liked the punk rock earnestness of this GOOD magazine essay about the coming-of-age of contemporary graphic novelists like Clowes, Bagge & Ware. You gotta love anyone who can work Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Charles Peterson, Estrus Records, Hate, Love & Rockets, Oui, Jasper Johns, Ted Nugent, Tron and at least three liberal arts colleges into 750 words.
Another reason to envy Portland…
NIGHT GALLERY & FLOATING WORLD COMICS PRESENT:
"SUPERTRASH"
72 HR FEST OF MOVIES / MERCHANDISE / PERFORMANCE / ART EXHIBITION
Feb 1-3, 2008, a weekend of 9 unforgettable movies, live burlesque
dancers, the return of Famous Mysterious Actor, and a stunning exhibit of
're-imagined movie poster art' sponsored by Seattle publisher
Fantagraphics.
Dash Shaw’s “BodyWorld”
Dash Shaw's new online comic, BodyWorld, begins today. Happy new year.
Heppy New Year!
Happy new year, faithful floggers. I begin the new year with yet another "Best Of" list. You've no doubt had enough of them, these "Top Tens" and "Must Have" lists and checklists from hither and yon. I promise to not inundate you with the vast majority of such digital miscellany, but to our fellow cartoon publishers, I have but one question for you: How many of your books made the list of The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2007? Yeah, that's right, I'm talkin' to you. What's that? I can't hear you. Huh? Yeah, that's what I thought. You can shut…
New year, new books: more 2008 titles for pre-order
Welcome the new year by looking forward to some great 2008 releases, which have just been added to the website and made available for pre-order on our Upcoming Releases page. Pictured above: new editions of Jordan Crane's all-ages hit The Clouds Above and Debbie Drechsler's groundbreaking Daddy's Girl; the newest collection of Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets stories, The Education of Hopey Glass; the unique scratchboard storybook Funeral of the Heart by Leah Hayes; and The Comics Journal #288, with our Best of 2007 coverage and sporting a brand-new design and format! Call 1-800-657-1100 (or 206-524-1967 outside the U.S.)…
Al Columbia.com
Have you looked at Al Columbia's website lately? There's some killer new images up, there, like the faux-poster for the Dario Argento film, SUSPIRA, that the above detail is from.
