The Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack welcomes several exciting new participants to our colorful celebration of challenging contemporary art. The June 12 installment promises to maintain the ingenuity and creative diversity that has characterized the Art Attack since its inception. Newly minted enterprises debuting on June 12 include: The grand opening of the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall – a cluster of vintage Airstream trailers housing galleries eateries, and boutiques – beginning with the Frida Folk Art Trailer exhibiting Tim Fowler’s paintings of childhood obsessions, bugs and cars, together with a “Trunk Show” by Georgetown metal workers of Steel Toe…
Bookmark: Roberta Gregory’s new website
Via our pal Donna Barr comes word that Roberta Gregory, beloved creator of Bitchy Bitch, has a new website where you can check out her strips, read her blog, get updates on her current projects and find out how to get her new book, Follow Your Art: Roberta's Comic Trips.
The House of No by Derek Van Gieson – May 28, 2010
Rejected New Yorker cartoons by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson, added weekly. Visit Derek’s website for more of his work, and look for his accepted strips and illustrations in the pages of the New Yorker. {mosimage}
Things to see: 5/27/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Wired.com presents a new 2-page Usagi Yojimbo story by Stan Sakai (via The Comics Reporter) • Ted Stearn drew Tim Hensley some Wally Gropius fan art • This week's "I, Anonymous" spot by Steven Weissman • Also from Steven, sketchbook pages (including this week's Barack Hussein Obama) • Frank Santoro presents all the process elements of this finished Cold Heat page • Scene shift! It's this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane • It's Paul Hornschemeier's new weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop and…
Daily OCD: 5/27/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Interview: In an audio interview originally broadcast on Resonance FM and now archived at Panel Borders for streaming or download, "Alex Fitch talks to Steffen P. Maarup about the collection of Danish comics he’s edited and translated into English: From Wonderland with Love – Danish Comics in the Third Millennium, an anthology that surveys the current comics scene in Denmark and collects creators from outside the world of comics also, including illustrators and fine artists alongside their sequential art peers. Alex and Steffen also talk about the wider world of Danish comics, including Danes who…
Dash Shaw’s The Ruined Cast teaser video
“The Ruined Cast” / Dash Shaw – demo teaser from Howard Gertler on Vimeo. Via indieWIRE comes this first look at the demo teaser for Dash Shaw's in-development animated feature film The Ruined Cast. Frank Santoro is helping out and I can totally see his drawing in there. indieWIRE has the full scoop on the film (which is still gathering financing and projected to be finished in Fall 2011) from Dash and producer John Cameron Mitchell.
Megan Kelso’s ARTICHOKE TALES at Fantagraphics Bookstore on June 12
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery hosts an art exhibition and book launch party for Seattle-based cartoonist Megan Kelso’s new graphic novel ARTICHOKE TALES on Saturday, June 12 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. A graduate of alternative cartoonist breeding ground The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, Megan Kelso burst onto the comics scene in the early 90s with her provocative self-published zine Girlhero. She has since proved herself a master of the cartoon short story with Queen of the Black Black (1998) and The Squirrel Mother (2006), in addition to the weekly serial “Watergate Sue” published in the New York Times…
Megan Kelso’s ARTICHOKE TALES at Fantagraphics Bookstore on June 12
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery hosts an art exhibition and book launch party for Seattle-based cartoonist Megan Kelso’s new graphic novel ARTICHOKE TALES on Saturday, June 12 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. A graduate of alternative cartoonist breeding ground The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, Megan Kelso burst onto the comics scene in the early 90s with her provocative self-published zine Girlhero. She has since proved herself a master of the cartoon short story with Queen of the Black Black (1998) and The Squirrel Mother (2006), in addition to the weekly serial “Watergate Sue” published in the New York Times…
Comics reading in Berkeley tomorrow
This looks good — a comics reading featuring Ben Catmull & Renee French from the Fantagraphics stable alongside 4 other well-respected indie-comickers: Trevor Alixopulos, Rina Ayuyang, Josh Frankek & Lark Pien. Tomorrow evening, at Pegasus Books in Berkeley. Via Ben's blog.
Things to see: 5/26/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • More juvenilia from Bob Fingerman • Another lithograph by John Hankiewicz • Nice fledgling bird sketches by Debbie Drechsler • Stinckers by Steven Weissman & co. are now available at Big Brain Comics in Minneapolis • This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams • T. Edward Bak's Steller Sea Lion linocut/letterpress print (part of his research expedition fundraising effort)
