Via The A.V. Club and other internet sources comes news that MTV has a new website for Liquid Television, and they've posted a whole mess of classic clips from the original run of the beloved and long-departed alternative-animation anthology show (along with some newer stuff, it seems)! Watch Charles Burns and Tony Halton's entire live-action Dog Boy serial (part 1 embedded below)… Get More: MTV Shows …Richard Sala's Invisible Hands serial (part 1 below)… Get More: MTV Shows …Uncle Louie, with art by Drew Friedman (episode 1 below)… Get More: MTV Shows …and many other classics. This is fantastic news,…
The Frank Book by Jim Woodring (New Hardcover Printing & New Softcover Ed.) – Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: The Frank Book (New Softcover Edition) by Jim Woodring 352-page black & white/color 8.5" x 11" softcover • $34.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-500-6 See Previews / Order Now The Frank Book (New Hardcover Printing) by Jim Woodring 352-page black & white/color 8.75" x 11.25" hardcover • $45.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-513-6 See Previews / Order Now eaders who haven't discovered Jim Woodring's Frank stories will find a treat waiting for them in the pages of this book. Since publication in 1991 of the award-winning, epoch-making "Frank in the River," these lusciously hypnotic fables…
Prison Pit tattoo
A fan named Ross Adams went and got himself a tattoo of the Caligulon symbol from Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit Book 3, and then Johnny went and tweeted about it. No word as to whether Adams can now shoot destructive/transfigurative rays from his shin.
Daily OCD: 10/10/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "It should go without saying by now that any new volume of Love and Rockets is a must for any serious comics fan… [and] New Stories 4 is… one of the major events of the comics year … [A]nyone who loves brilliant cartooning technique should appreciate the way Jaime draws the casual sag of a post-coital naked body, or the way he illustrates a pre-schooler tugging at his mother, oblivious to any notion of 'personal space.' And anyone who’s alive in the world should be moved by this story’s depiction of life as…
Things to See: Wilfred Santiago’s 21 sketchbook
Wilfred Santiago takes you "behind the pages," sharing some of his process art from 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente and showing how his sketches and thumbnails developed into the final pages. Cool! Click each image to dig 'em on Flickr. [See our Tumblr blog for more recent Things to See.]
Are you ready to get Thrizzled?
Advance copies of Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7 by Michael Kupperman just arrived at the office and we're all pawing at them eagerly. You can get your very own world-premiere copy at Desert Island in Brooklyn this Thursday on the next stop of the Twain in the Membrane tour! Everyone else, it'll be in stores next month. Stay tuned for more and better previews, of course!
Have a Sweetly Diabolic 2012 with Jim Flora
Plan ahead for the future with a blast from the past — it's the 2012 Jim Flora calendars! There's the Sheffield Island letterpress calendar, as seen above, based on a 1954 Flora woodcut… …And there's the smaller classic design, featuring Flora's illustrations from the 1950s: Swingin' Sax, Boogie-Beat Drummer, and Stardust Moon. These are all hand-printed by Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress of Knoxville, and as the Jim Flora website promises, they are guaranteed to include your birthday, as well as those of your family and friends!
Peek at Gahan Wilson’s Nuts at PREVIEWSworld
PREVIEWSworld presents a 4-page sneak peek at Gahan Wilson's Nuts, in comic shops this week (plus 3 pages from Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons as a bonus)!
Patch It Up with Quimby’s and Chris Ware
Got a hole in your jacket from that Chris Ware story that reached in, tore your heart out, and stomped it into the ground? (His writing, that is, not the man himself — he's pretty laid-back.) Patch it up with one of these rad new patches from our friends at Quimby's in Chicago! Heat adhesive, four-color embroidered, and only five freakin' bucks. Only available at the store for now, but they should be on sale on their website soon.
Harkham and Oldham Go to Town
Two bearded artists with "ham" in their last names have teamed up for this latest release on Drag City Records! Under his Bonnie 'Prince' Billy nom de plume, Will Oldham has a brand-new album out now featuring cover art by the one-and-only Sammy Harkham. Why, I think it might be time for another edition of Under the Covers with Fantagraphics…
