Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • A spot illo of W.C. Fields by Michael Kupperman in this week's New Yorker • Another Post-It preview from Steven Weissman • Cartoon Josh Simmons & Wendy Chin's doctor is a real Quack(er) • Back to hairy subject matter for Renee French • Stephen DeStefano posts this teaser of a short animation he's working on to promote his forthcoming Fantagraphics graphic novel Lucky in Love • This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Daily OCD: 6/2/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Rather than a narrative arc, with ascensions and declines, Artichoke [Tales] feels like a series of expansions. The characters and their world grow to envelop the reader in a singular, charming way." – Paul Constant, The Stranger • Review: "Without a single word, Woodring tells an enormous tale of redemption and heartbreak. Weathercraft crackles with the power of myth, and it extends far beyond its pages with a life of its own; one could imagine a postapocalyptic culture forming an entire religion based on this one thin book. You've never read anything quite like…
Weekend events with Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge fans in the Northwest can get a double dose this weekend. First, Peter's band Can You Imagine? plays at the Sunset Tavern in scenic downtown Ballard, in Seattle, on Friday night. Also on the bill: The Tom Price Desert Classic, which is studded with Fantagraphics staff past and present, and more special guests. Get more info and RSVP on Facebook. Then on Saturday Peter appears as a special guest of the Olympia Comics Festival (where our own Jason T. Miles will also be tabling with his Profanity Hill concern). Good times!
Things to see: 6/1/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy" from John Kerschbaum • Drew Friedman presents a history of his work about, with and for Howard Stern, including never-before-seen sketches • Jim Woodring gets dark, literally and figuratively • Another Post-It preview from Steven Weissman • Meanwhile… it's this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane • The Jim Flora Art Blog commemorates Benny Goodman's 101st birthday • Gabrielle Bell commences a new travelogue diary comic • "Wanda in Blue" by Mark Kalesniko • Another mysterious 4 panels from…
Daily OCD: 6/1/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Whether you love the swords and sorcery genre, high adventure, romance, or any or all of the above, Hal Foster’s early work on Prince Valiant is well worth reading. … Fantagraphics has done a remarkable job remastering these strips, which, thanks to the use of original proof sheets and advances in printing technology, are even brighter and crisper than when they were first published 70 years ago. This second volume from Fantagaphics is due to ship in June 2010." – James Henry, Mid-Ohio-Con • Review: "In form, content and effect, [Muzzlers, Guzzlers and Good…
Congrats to NCS Award winner Steve Brodner
Various news outlets have reported the winners of the annual National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards; congratulations are due Steve Brodner, division winner for Advertising Illustration.
Kim Deitch and Megan Kelso at the Strand on June 24th!
KIM DEITCH AND MEGAN KELSO CELEBRATE THEIR NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AT THE STRAND ON JUNE 24 Fantagraphics Books and New York's The Strand Bookstore are proud to present an evening with acclaimed graphic novelists Kim Deitch and Megan Kelso on June 24, talking about and signing their new graphic novels THE SEARCH FOR SMILIN' ED (by Deitch) and ARTICHOKE TALES (by Kelso). Kelso will be making a rare return to New York since moving back to her hometown of Seattle, WA a few years ago. She will give a multimedia talk called "Big and Small": How do you…
Kim Deitch and Megan Kelso at the Strand on June 24, 2010
KIM DEITCH AND MEGAN KELSO CELEBRATE THEIR NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AT THE STRAND ON JUNE 24 Fantagraphics Books and New York's The Strand Bookstore are proud to present an evening with acclaimed graphic novelists Kim Deitch and Megan Kelso on June 24, talking about and signing their new graphic novels THE SEARCH FOR SMILIN' ED (by Deitch) and ARTICHOKE TALES (by Kelso). Kelso will be making a rare return to New York since moving back to her hometown of Seattle, WA a few years ago. She will give a multimedia talk called "Big and Small": How do you…
Tim Hensley signing photos
Graham Kolbeins of Future Shipwreck has a bunch of swell photos from Tim Hensley's Wally Gropius book signing at GR2 in L.A. this past weekend.
Jim Woodring Doc. Screens Friday!
Seattleites, you won't want to miss this: "The Lobster and the Liver," a feature-length documentary about the great Jim Woodring, will play at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival this Friday, June 4th at 7pm at the Central Cinema ( 21st and Union ). I've seen it, and although it will likely embarrass Jim to say so, I thought it was fantastic and one of the best docs about a cartoonist I've ever seen. Watch the trailer here or embedded below.
