We're proud to be a sponsor of the WXPFL (World Extreme Pencil Fighting League) Championships tonight at the Rendezvous JewelBox Theater in Seattle. It's extreme! It's fighting! With pencils!
Things to See: Bob Dylan in Retirement by Drew Friedman
Drew Friedman sent along this delightful illustration of Bob Dylan which ran in today's Wall Street Journal.
Where’s Captain Kirk?
Tickets officially go on sale today for the Emerald City Comicon, which takes place March 4 through 6, 2011 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. The popularity of the convention allowed producers to expand to 3 days next year. Advance tickets, ranging from $15 to $35, are available at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. Featured guests this year include Star Trek's William Shatner from the original series and Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes from The Next Generation, as well as a substantial presence by alternative comix publishers and artists. [Image from Destroy All Movies!!! – Ed.]
Signed bookplate bonanza!
As you hopefully know, many of our books are available with exclusive signed bookplates as a free bonus when you order direct from us — there's a whole great big list here, and we're currently adding and replenishing plates for many titles, including (in no particular order): • 8 different titles by Jason • Buddy Does Seattle and Buddy Does Jersey by Peter Bagge• Temperance by Cathy Malkasian• Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso• The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. by Dash Shaw• Zippy: Ding Dong Daddy from Dingburg by Bill Griffith• The Search for Smilin' Ed and Deitch's…
Daily OCD: 12/2/10
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "A snapshot of Jason's career from 1997-2001, the stories in What I Did are also loosely thematically collected, circling around guilt as their central emotion. […] There are many pleasures to be had from Jason's work, among them a wealth of clever cartoon metaphors and a impressively economic storytelling tricks. […] At his best, Jason pieces together representations of complex thoughts and emotions through simple visual building blocks." – David Michelitch, Comics Alliance • Review: "Somebody up there likes us. You need Destroy All Movies!!! in your life. It’s heartening to know that…
Teaser: Final cover design for ’21’
Burns Baby Burns!
This is your last week to view the exquisite exhibition by Charles Burns at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle. Don't miss out on an opportunity to attend his first show in his hometown in over a decade — a career-spanning body of work, with prints starting as low as $30. It's also the last week to bid on Sub Pop founder Bruce Pavitt's private collection of pristine RAW magazines and the original Charles Burns drawing for Sub Pop #5 cassette zine — the direct predecessor to the legendary record label. The silent auction bid for this historic piece currently…
Things to See: Free Omni Non-denominational Holiday Print from Ray Fenwick
Ray Fenwick offers this image, available as a print-quality download, via his Flickr page. Merry oblivion, everyone!
Joyce Farmer in Laguna Beach Saturday!
Pioneering underground cartoonist Joyce Farmer will be making her first west coast appearance in support of her new graphic novel, SPECIAL EXITS, this Saturday in her hometown of Laguna Beach, CA at Latitude 33 Bookstore at 5PM. SPECIAL EXITS is a remarkable book, one that none other than R. Crumb calls "One of the best long-narrative comics I've ever read, right up there with Gen of Hiroshima and Maus. It had a powerful effect on me… towards the end I actually found myself moved to tears." The book has been garnering a slew of praise this week, including this write-up in last Sunday's LA Times, and this heartfelt…
Fantagraphics to Publish Crockett Johnson’s BARNABY
Tom Spurgeon at the Comics Reporter has the scoop: Fantagraphics will begin publishing Crockett Johnson's BARNABY in April 2012, almost 70 years to the day that the strip premiered in the leftist newspaper PM. Yours truly will edit the series, in close coordination with Philip Nel, whose biography of Johnson, The Purple Crayon And A Hole To Dig: The Lives Of Crockett Johnson And Ruth Krauss, will be published by the University Press Of Mississippi the same month. The series will be designed by none other than massive Barnaby fan and master cartoonist Daniel Clowes. Nel will provide essays for each volume, and each volume…
