Our weekly strips from Kupperman & Weissman, plus links to other strips from around the web (now updated with Maakies!): — Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (view at original size): And elsewhere: The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour by John Kerschbaum at ACT-I-VATE: Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Ectiopiary by Hans Rickheit: Forming by Jesse Moynihan: Humblug by Arnold Roth (3 new strips this week): Maakies by Tony Millionaire: The Pain — When Will It End? by Tim Kreider:…
Last day of our International Comics sale!
Today's your last day to save at least 30% off comics and graphic novels by international creators! From manga to bandes desinées, classic to cutting-edge, we have masterpieces from every permanently-inhabited continent (if you count New Zealand as part of Australia, anyway). Our original announcement lists just a few of the amazing creators whose works are on sale. There's never been a better time to discover some of the best comics the world has to offer, and it's almost over, so don't delay!
Up All Night by Michael Kupperman – Time Bum
This weekly strip by Snake ‘n’ Bacon and Tales Designed to Thrizzle creator Michael Kupperman runs weekly in the Washington City Paper and here on the Fantagraphics website.
Daily OCD: 10/13/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Rendered in a simply stunning panorama of glowing visual passion and precision, Prince Valiant is a non-stop rollercoaster of stirring action, exotic adventure and grand romance; blending human-scaled fantasy with dry wit and broad humour with shatteringly dark violence. Beautiful, captivating and utterly awe-inspiring the strip is a World Classic of fiction and something no fan can afford to miss. If you have never experienced the intoxicating grandeur of Foster’s magnum opus these magnificent, lavishly substantial deluxe editions are the best way possible to do so and will be your gateway to an…
Wilfred Santiago celebrates another Roberto Clemente milestone anniversary
Via the Facebook page for 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente: 40 YEARS AGO… October 13, 1971 Game 4- Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Baltimore Orioles, was the first World Series game held at night ever. Roberto Clemente batted three hits in a Pirates' 4–3 comeback victory! ♥
Daily OCD: 10/12/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Feature: At SF Weekly, Alan Scherstuhl provides you with "10 Reasons Why Prince Valiant Bests All 2011's Adventure Heroes" (starting with "He lances giant crocodiles"), saying "Sure, those glossy lips and that pageboy bob makes him look something like ye olde Ramona Quimby, but don't let that fool you. The star of what is arguably the twentieth century's best-drawn newspaper comic strip, Hal Foster's Prince Valiant is all hero, through and through, for his age and ours. The first four volumes of Fantagraphics' collected Prince Valiant reveal young Foster's creation as both the sum…
When Johnny Ryan met William Stout
Stephanie Escobar tweeted this photo of Johnny Ryan with the great dinosaur illustrator/creature designer William Stout at Babytattooville last week.
Even more translation fun with Swarte!
In one of the stories in Joost Swarte's upcoming Is That All There Is?, translated from the Dutch, a character speaks entirely in rebuses. Accordingly, Joost had to create an entirely new set of drawings for the English-language rebus, which I basically came up with and he tweaked. The whale is Joost's idea, and while the rebus purist in me objects a little to replacing that many letters, it's such an adorable whale I can't really squawk. Can you decode it? Book goes to the printer next week! With Complete Pogo Volume 1 now in print and the Swarte book…
The Cabbie Vol. 1 sneak peek at PREVIEWSworld
Head over to the PREVIEWSworld site for a 5-page preview of The Cabbie Vol. 1 by Martí, which (as we just mentioned) arrives in comic shops today!
New Comics Day 10/12/11: The Cabbie, Nuts
This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. The Cabbie Vol. 1 by Martí 80-page black & white 9" x 11.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-450-4 "I've seen this Marti Riera graphic novel described as Dick Tracy without a moral anchor, which sounds intriguing; the introduction's by Art Spiegelman, and I suspect it's the same as the one that…
