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.
Weekend Webcomics: 5/28/10
Ah, our weekly strip updates are back on Friday evenings where they belong. We'll still call them "Weekend Webcomics" though. And we have another change to announce: This week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson will be the final installment to appear here — the strip has been picked up to run in our hometown alt-weekly, The Stranger, starting this week (where it's on a rotating schedule with Steven Weissman's Barack Hussein Obama among other new strips)! But don't fear, Derek will be back in this spot in the near future with a brand new feature called Claudette….
Things to see: 5/28/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • A Snoopy sketch accompanied by a great Sparky anecdote from Greg Hoffman (via The Comics Reporter via Bob Levin) • More of Bob Fingerman's kid stuff • Dash Shaw's storyboards for (presumably) a scene from The Ruined Cast • Hey, there's another Post-it Show coming up at GRNY next month, and here's one from Steven Weissman • Also from Steven, more sketchbook • I'm partial to Debbie Drechsler's birds • Noah Van Sciver keeps working on his book • Steve Brodner's take on Sen. James Inhofe (R,…
Daily OCD: 5/28/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Plug: "Wally Gropius, Tim Hensley’s debut 'graphic novel' (still not comfortable enough with that term to remove the quotes) is my favorite book of the year by a wide margin. What looks like a European reprint of a mid-1960s hybrid of Archie and Richie Rich is upon closer inspection a brilliant, hilarious, deeply complex and wholly original work that rewards a fifteenth reading as much as a first. The story—the adventures of a lovesick teenage millionaire (no relation [I think] to the Bauhaus founder)—is told in language both verbal and visual that feels entirely without…
