Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: John Mueller of ComicImpact names The Hidden by Richard Sala one of the Best Comics & Art Books of 2011: "Imagine your unease if all the ghouls and ghosts of the Halloweens of your forgotten youth were suddenly made real, so real that they are about to come crashing through your front door at any moment. Oh, and don’t bother running to the neighbor’s because the monsters have stopped there first. That’s what reading The Hidden is like and that’s also what makes it not only one of the best books of the…
Back cover for Jaime Hernandez’s God & Science: Return of the Ti-Girls
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Stinck It Up With Stinckers on Etsy!
Flog readers surely know all about Stinckers, the super-fun line of vinyl stickers produced by Steven Weissman & Mats?!. Well, we're happy to announce that they've just launched an Etsy store as a one-stop shop for uncut production sheets of stincky fun, including designs from Daniel Clowes (as seen above, designed for Meltdown Comics in L.A.) to Johnny Ryan to (well, of course) Steven Weissman! They are quite suitable for framing, and shipping is free! This one's Steve's stincker sheet… And heeeerree's Johnny's!
Tony Millionaire Portrait Show at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Our wildly entertaining and talented cartoonist friend Tony Millionaire will appear at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, January 7 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM for a book signing and art show. He'll be exhibiting brilliantly sedate work from his new book 500 Portraits, recently released by Fantagraphics Books. 500 Portraits collects over two decades of work by the beloved creator of Drinky Crow's Maakies, Sock Monkey and Billy Hazelnuts. Tony Millionaire's gorgeous fountain pen illustrations are pretty amazing. Many of these 500 portraits were created for The Believer, the magazine founded by Dave Eggers that Millionaire helped define visually…
Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby’s Romance Comics – Previews, Pre-Order
Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby's Romance Comics by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon; edited by Michel Gagné 208-page full-color 7.75" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-502-0 Ships in: January 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Together, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created such classic two-fisted comic series as Captain America, Boys' Ranch, The Newsboy Legion, and The Boy Commandos. But few people realize that one of their greatest successes — from 1947, when they singlehandedly created the genre, to the end of the 1950s — was… romance comics! In such best-selling titles as Young Love and…
Zippy on iTunes
Need something to listen to while you're perusing your newly-acquired copy of Bill Griffith: Lost and Found – Comics 1969-2003? Download the soundtrack to Zippy the Pinhead: The Musical, which had its debut staging in November 2010 in Baltimore, now available on iTunes. 19 songs, from the Overture to "Don't Goad the Toad" to "Pinhead Love." All songs by Lorraine Whittlesey. YOW!!
Bill Griffith: Lost and Found – Comics 1969-2003 – Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Bill Griffith: Lost and Found – Comics 1969-2003 by Bill Griffith 392-page black & white/color 8" x 10" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-482-5 See Previews / 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. Bill Griffith is best known as the creator of the Zippy daily comic strip, currently running in over 300 newspapers nationwide, but Zippy was conceived as an underground comix character before he became embraced…
Daily OCD: 1/4/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Wandering Son Vol. 2 is a great sophomore collection from Takako; I feel like the slightly choppy nature from the early chapters in Vol. 1 is gone, and Takako’s starting to expand the cast and the plot in a way that provides more of a dramatic bite. Based on the class trip sequence in this volume, Takako’s just getting ready to make Wandering Son a lot more heavy and less idealized for the characters. If it goes anything like we see here, we’ve got a hell of a ride ahead of us. With…
R. Crumb ‘Whiteman Meets Bigfoot’ print
A new limited-edition R. Crumb etching is now available from Wildwood Serigraphs, featuring the final panel from the story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot" in Home Grown Funnies (collected in the currently out-of-print The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 8), completely redrawn for this edition.
Things to See: Lost Cat by Jason, panel 1
As we guessed, Lost Cat will indeed be the title of Jason’s next book after Athos in America. He confirmed the title today on his blog along with this, the first panel of the story. Check out his other posts for more teaser artwork and his thoughts on various films and other subjects. [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]
