More sweet Love and Rockets ink — Tedward Phillips Hill shares this rendition of the classic issue 5 cover over at the L&R Facebook page.
Comic-Con: Preview Night is for previews
Check out the views of our booth (#1718) and book debuts, taken in the moments before the doors were opened. Lots more photos after the jump. Our slate of signings starts Thursday morning — hope to see you there!
Daily OCD: 7/21/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "What elevates Werewolves of Montpellier into the top rank of Jason’s work is the way he manages to dovetail the story’s genre elements with the emotional narrative. … Overall, this is a pitch-perfect, expertly-crafted story by an artist who is clearly working in his comfort zone. It’s remarkable to see a creator go to the same well so many times and yet continue to produce nuanced and powerful variations on the same themes." – Rob Clough, The Comics Journal • Review: "…Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird is as good as the first book….
Ellen Forney on the teevee
Ellen Forney was featured on KING-5's Evening Magazine tonight, as they paid a visit to her comic art class. See above or the link for embedded video.
Crumb Crumbs
This shouldn't come as news to too many folks, but I don't recall seeing it flogged before, so what the hell: the latest issue of THE PARIS REVIEW includes a very long interview with R. Crumb. It's kind of a layman's interview, covering a lot of well trodden ground, but it's lengthy and satisfying. You need to buy the print version for the full read. Meanwhile, over on the official R. Crumb website, Alex Wood catches up with Crumb as well, at least until Crumb has to go care for his baby grandson. Lastly, the photo in this post is a detail I…
Tim Hensley black light poster
Tim Hensley channels his inner Kirby for this incredible silkscreen poster in full-on 1970s black-light mode, complete with flocking! It's available from those wizards at PictureBox. Will he have some with him during his signing at our Comic-Con table at noon on Saturday? He's not saying.
Daily OCD: 7/20/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "A book that sticks with you like a virus, Woodring's newest collection of tales of vague morality and definite oddity [Weathercraft] keeps intact his status as one of comics most eccentric auteurs. … Woodring's wordless story is a looping and circumstantial affair, concerned more with fantastically rendered backgrounds — his starkly layered landscapes play like minimalist woodcuts of the deepest unconscious — than matters of plot and story. There is a creeping message of sorts, about the wages of greed and what happens to curious cats, but it's mired in a universe of deeply…
New Drew Friedman fine art print: Jackie Wilson
The latest limited edition release from the Drew Friedman Fine Art concern is Drew's portrait of soul great Jackie Wilson. Click here for all the info and to order. The portrait is also included in Drew's new collection of portraits, Too Soon?, debuting at Comic-Con and available widely soon thereafter.
Dan Clowes draws Bill Murray for GQ
Can you think of a better combination? Pure awesomeness! Start your Wilson movie casting fantasies/rumors. Via a bunch of people on Twitter.
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This Saturday at 12:00PM I'm honored to be interviewing one of my favorite cartoonists, Seattle's Peter Bagge, for the 2010 Comic-Con International (Room 3). If you happen to be a recipient of a golden ticket and are braving this year's premier comic book convention then I urge you to attend as we'll be wholesaling a satori experience in the guise of humor and loathing for all humankind! The following topics will be discussed: Delusion, Consequence, Death, Study of History, Crosshatching, Super Wackiness, Grim Mundane Reality, and more!
