Joe Sacco is rightly considered to be one of our greatest living cartoonists, but he is most underrated as a humorist. From yesterday's New York Times.
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio: Previews, Pre-Order, Signed Plate
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio 288-page black & white/color 7.25" x 9.75" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-377-4 Ships in: September 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now This book is available with a signed bookplate as a FREE premium! The bookplate has been uniquely designed for this book, and each bookplate is printed on acid-free cardstock and hand-signed by the author. (Click here for more books available with signed bookplates.) Please select your preference when adding the item to your shopping cart. Signature plates are VERY limited in quantity and available only WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. Forty years…
Happiness is a Something Or Other
From the new Complete Peanuts 1977-1978.
Things to see: 8/13/10
Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Bleeding Cool presents this R. Crumb sketch which was printed on the front page of Brazilian newspaper O Globo • Bob Fingerman depicts "Another Day in Hell" • Two unpublished Jason pages: a gag strip starring "D.V." and an aborted Poe adaptation • This week's "I, Anonymous" spot by Steven Weissman • This week's Maakies by Tony Millionaire (still on Facebook while his new website is being built — if that last link doesn't work try this) • New Mome contributor D.J. Bryant has a strip in…
Daily OCD: 8/13/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…[Rand Holmes] could tell a story, and he hit his stride with lengthy action-comedy epics like 'Wings Over Tijuana' and 'Hitler’s Cocaine,' which explored the shadier sides of drug culture in a style that veered from the shockingly real to the morbidly slapstick. Imagine a Jack Davis MAD magazine piece with heavier overtones; that was Holmes at his best, and that best is well-represented in The Artist Himself. [Grade] B+" – The A.V. Club • Review: "Drew Weing’s breezy, lyrical graphic novel Set to Sea… tells a simple story about art and experience, delivered…
Preview The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective at Graphic Novel Reporter
Get a 9-page sneak peek of Rand Holmes art and comics from The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective by Patrick Rosenkranz at Graphic Novel Reporter!
Weekend Webcomics: 8/13/10
Steven Weissman tosses us a curveball this week, giving Barack Hussein Obama a rest and bringing us Truman Capote, "drawn on the beach!" as Steven boasts. We still need to bring our roster of online strips back up from one… stay tuned.
Daily OCD: 8/12/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…I had more fun reading this book than just about any other comic I’ve read so far this year. … There’s a sort of Hergé-like mechanical perfection to his artwork; not only is it super-clean and super-crisp, but the panel-to-panel consistency is so strong that his characters sometimes don’t look drawn so much as stamped out by some sort of automatic drawing machine. … Steve and Millennium Boy are funny — sometimes on purpose, sometimes not — and it’s a pleasure to walk around with them. … I haven’t played an RPG since I…
COVER STORY: Bizarre album cover action at Fantagraphics Bookstore Saturday, 8/14
Everyone has seen the strange graphics that grace the covers of obscure albums while flipping through used record bins at garage sales, flea markets and records stores. Some of the weirdest are collected in COVER STORY Vol. 2: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art published by Wax Poetics/powerHouse Books. Fantagraphics Bookstore, in association with Georgetown Records, celebrates the publication of this delightfully odd volume with a publication party this Saturday, August 14 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. The party will feature a display of many of the most outrageous album covers from the book, as well as DJ sets of…
The Greatest Comic Book Movie of All-Time?
Okay, you've already heard about our contest for this, and been informed about the Onion's recent interview with its director, but I just wanna testify and tell anyone who might be curious that they should go buy the new Criterion release of Terry Zwigoff's Crumb film already. I bought the Blu-Ray edition yesterday even though I think it's now the third iteration of the film that I've purchased; well worth it, though, because Criterion is the first to get it right. It's a handsome and thoughtful package, which includes a fascimile reproduction of Charles Crumb's (In)Famous Artists Test booklet, as well another booklet of…
