Eleanor Davis at the Society of Illustrators, NYC

Join Mome contributor Eleanor Davis for a lecture and Q&A, along with fellow artists Jillian Tamaki and Lisa Hanawalt! Titled "Work Plus Play," this talented trio will be spotlighted by the Society of Illustrators [ 128 East 63rd Street, New York City ] on Thursday, February 23rd from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.   Tickets are $15 non-members, $10 members, and $7 students, and are available online here.

Woodring Wear Now In Full Color!

WHOA! Jim Woodring wear is now in full-fantastical-color with these terrific tees from our friends at Americaware! Get the Pups in Paradise or a new design, Frank Tours the Planets, which borrows its design from the 2010 Oslo Comics Expo tee you've surely envied seeing our own Marketing Maestro Mike Baehr modeling at conventions! And don't forget: with every Americaware order, you'll get a 20% off coupon to use when ordering from us!

Daily OCD: 2/15/12

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…[C]urrent fans of the [Zippy] strip are in for a surprise, a shock, and, ultimately, a major treat, when they pick up Griffith's new career retrospective, Lost and Found: Comics 1969-2003… The journey from these energy-packed, overstuffed, unpolished early comics to the elegant masterwork of the present is a journey greater than that of Gary Trudeau with Doonesbury or Charles Schultz with Peanuts…. His early reign as an oversexed adolescent-minded wiseacre gives way to a long golden afternoon of wry and wistful philosophizing, with frequent salient eruptions of deserved ire and malice toward…

New Comics Day 2/15/12: Athos in America

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new title. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about it (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the link, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Athos in America by Jason 196-page full-color 6.5" x 8.75" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-478-8 "A new and even-odder-than-usual book of short pieces by the marvelous Norwegian cartoonist Jason; as usual, I find that his stuff seems very lightweight at first and then sneaks up on me. My favorite of the…

Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge – 4th Printing in Stock Now

Buddy Does Seattle: The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from "Hate" Comics Vol. 1 (1990-'94) by Peter Bagge 340-page black & white 6" x 9" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-56097-623-3 Back in stock in a new 4th printing — Order Now! Order this book and receive this FBI•MINI comic shown at left as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last. These legendary stories, from the classic first fifteen issues of Bagge's Hate comic, are a defining icon of Seattle's early 1990s culture (the Seattle Weekly has written, "20 years from now, when people wonder what…

Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 by Pat Thomas – Now in Stock

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 by Pat Thomas 204-page full-color 10" x 10" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-507-5 See Previews / Order Now Noted music producer and scholar Pat Thomas spent five years in Oakland, CA researching Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975. While befriending members of the Black Panther Party, Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews, and music by noted activists Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Elaine Brown, The Lumpen and many others that form the…

Glitz-2-Go by Diane Noomin – Now in Stock

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Glitz-2-Go by Diane Noomin 180-page black & white/color 8" x 10" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-481-8 See Previews / Order Now Glitz-2-Go finally collects nearly 40 years of comics stories by Diane Noomin, best-known for her work as cartoonist and editor of the women comics anthology Twisted Sisters. Noomin’s career in underground comix began in 1972 and included appearances in Wimmen’s Comix, Young Lust, Short Order, Arcade, Real Girl, Lemme Outta Here, El Perfecto, True Glitz, Aftershock, Mind Riot, Titters, and Weirdo. Glitz-2-Go stars Noomin’s signature character, DiDi…

Daily OCD: 2/14/12

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Interview (Audio): On the new episode of the Jordan, Jesse, Go! podcast "Cartoonist Tony Millionaire joins Jordan and Jesse at Thorn Manor to teach us etymology, school dance etiquette, and generational pop culture." • Interview (Video): A brief 2009 video profile of a then-beardy Peter Bagge produced by Stussy to promote their line of Bagge-illustrated t-shirts has been newly uploaded to their Vimeo page (via Forbidden Planet International) • Yeesh: The good news: the current issue of Seattle's free CityArts magazine contains an excerpt from Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power…