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!
Daily OCD: 7/19/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Instead of bringing to mind old black & white stories and advertisements, the color [Tales Designed to] Thrizzle now mines the endless well of cheap, awful color comics. The color scheme is so heavily into the CMYK scheme of old four-color comics, and employed so luridly, that the reader is once again forced to dig into each panel slowly. … Kupperman can jab you with a quick joke like a fake ad or a cover for an old comic called 'Cowboy Oscar Wilde,' or he can wrestle you into submission with a shaggy dog…
Comic-Con addenda: Natalia Hernandez! Peanuts! Tote bags!
We have a few extra tidbits to append to our Comic-Con announcement: once again we'll have the pleasure of welcoming the lovely and talented Natalia Hernandez as she debuts the eagerly-awaited third issue of her hit self-published minicomic The Adventures of Crystal Girl! It's a rollicking read for young and old alike. Natalia will be hanging out with her pop Gilbert & uncle Jaime during at least some of their scheduled signing times: Thursday 2:00 – 4:00 PMFriday 12:00 – 2:00 PMSaturday 3:00 – 5:00 PMSunday 2:00 – 4:00 PM We'll also once again be breaking out the silver Sharpies…
Joe Sacco in The Guardian
Joe Sacco returned to his birth country of Malta to report on immigration & globalization in "The Unwanted," a 12-page story running at The Guardian. (Hat tip to ¡Journalista!)
First Look: Prison Pit Book 3 by Johnny Ryan
Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit: Book 2 hasn't even debuted yet (we'll have it at Comic-Con this week) but Johnny's already sent us the cover art for Book 3, coming in 2011. I'm getting tinnitus just looking at it!
Things to see: 7/19/10
Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Robert Goodin presents an outtake page from his story "The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung" in Mome Vol. 19 • Gary Panter announces a new Jimbo minicomic • Jim Woodring presents two Frank favorites, Frank in Frizland and Manhog's Holiday, now in full painted color • It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy" from John Kerschbaum • From Kevin Huizenga, a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond, new Fight or Run action, and more process at New Construction • From Steven Weissman, this week's…
New Jim Flora print: G3 in Tampico
A previously unpublished 1970 Jim Flora painting, G3 in Tampico, is now available as a limited-edition print from Jim Flora Fine Art. Read the restoration notes here.
Weekend Webcomics: 7/16/10 (posted 7/18)
It's still the weekend, right? Another volley in the battle of the sexes in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan… …and the PotUS bonds with our allies in this week's Barack Hussein Obama strip by Steven Weissman.
