Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Angry Beavers creator Schauer displays a knowledge and fondness for the old-school culture of monster movies, and the art [in Rip M.D.] has a nice balance between the macabre and the absurd." – Publishers Weekly (link is temporary) • Review: "…[I]t’s the combination of form and content, style and substance that makes Poison River – the graphic novel-length 'origin of Luba' story that comprises [Beyond Palomar]’s first two-thirds – one of the most singular, potent, unforgettable comics ever made by anyone, ever. …[I]n a way, [Love and Rockets X] feels like a riff…
Kupperman & Fingerman at King Con
Michael Kupperman & Bob Fingerman are among the guests at King Con this weekend in Brooklyn. Go see 'em!
Photos: Rip M.D. signing at Long Beach Comic Con
It's the Rip M.D. creative team of Mitch Schauer, Mike Vosburg and Michael Lessa (missing: Justin Yamaguchi) at the Golden Apple Comics booth at last weekend's Long Beach Comic Con. Look how excited they are! Check out more photos in this album on Facebook.
Carol Tyler at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati TOMORROW
From Carol Tyler's Screened-in Porch blog (take note: Carol has a blog!) comes news that she'll be a guest at 44: Small Press & Artist Book Fair taking place tomorrow (Saturday, November 6, 2010) at the Contemporary Arts Center in her hometown of Cincinnati, OH. More info at the links above; RSVP on Facebook here.
Photos from last week’s Charles Burns event
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery was as jam-packed as it's ever been for Charles Burns's book signing and exhibit opening last Saturday, October 30. If you were claustrophobic, it was not the place to be! On the other hand, if you give half a toot about comics, it was exactly the place to be! The signing line stretched far into the distance and beyond the edge of this photo. Charles was happy as a clam chatting with fans all night and signing copies of Black Hole and his newest book X'ed Out — until they sold out, that is. Several fans…
Now in stock: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1 by Jacques Tardi
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1: Pterror Over Paris and The Eiffel Tower Demon by Jacques Tardi 96-page full-color 8.5" x 11.5" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-382-8 Ordering Info & Previews Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of same, Adèle Blanc-Sec has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades. With various American attempts to publish Adèle having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh from its triumphs with Tardi’s West Coast Blues, You Are There, and It Was…
Now in stock: Toys in the Basement by Stéphane Blanquet
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Toys in the Basement by Stéphane Blanquet 32-page full-color 8.5" x 11.25" hardcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-402-3 Ordering Info & Previews With appearances in such anthologies as Zero Zero, Blab! and Kramer's Ergot, Stéphane Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American readers with his superslick, ultradetailed creepiness. So it makes perfect sense that his first graphic novel to be published in the U.S. would be… a children's book? Yes indeed. Our hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume (he wanted to be a pirate) stumbles across a secret…
Now in stock: Unlovable: The Complete Collection by Esther Pearl Watson
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Unlovable: The Complete Collection by Esther Pearl Watson two hardcover volumes in custom slipcase, 832 pages, two-color, 5.75" x 5.75" • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-397-2 Ordering Info & Previews Loosely based on a teenager’s diary from the 1980s found in a gas-station bathroom, Unlovable is the remarkable story of Tammy Pierce, as filtered through the pen and brush of Los Angeles artist Esther Pearl Watson. This boxed set collects the complete, acclaimed two-volume saga of Tammy’s sophomore year of high school in 1989. Tammy has built a devoted following over the last several…
Monday’s Strip by Stephen DeStefano – Strip 10
Originally run as an experiment on Stephen’s blog starting in 2008, Monday’s Strip is re-presented here. Lettering on this strip by Siobhan DeStefano. Stephen’s graphic novel Lucky in Love Book 1: A Poor Man’s History (written by George Chieffet) was released by Fantagraphics in September, 2010.
Destroy All Movies!!! interview & contributor’s notes
Two features too big for our "Daily OCD" roundup today: First, Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film gets the cover (seen above) of this week's issue of The Austin Chronicle! Marc Savlov of the Chronicle, who says "Destroy All Movies!!! is more than a reference book for the Mohawk-obsessed: It's a feat akin to taking your shitty punk rock band on a world tour in a crappy '72 Ford Econoline circa 1983. Hard work, but man, when you're done you know you've really been somewhere," talks to the book's editors Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly, the…
