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)
Daily OCD: 5/26/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "In reviewing Jaime Hernandez's Penny Century, I could point to the frenetic pace of many of the stories; the cute, odd, and endearing sort of strangeness spawned in this lightly magical universe; or even the beautiful art, which is truly the mark of this master cartoonist. But, no, I am going to hype the very first story, 'Whoa Nellie,' beyond anything else in this fantastic volume. … Such a wonderful, and grounded, story is a nice start-off point for the still compelling, yet far stranger and sexier, tales that follow. Soup to nuts, this…
Now in stock: The Search for Smilin’ Ed! by Kim Deitch
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Search for Smilin' Ed! by Kim Deitch 162-page black & white 6" x 8.75" softcover (with full-color foldout) • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-324-8 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Originally created in 1997 and 1998 for the underground anthology Zero Zero, The Search for Smilin’ Ed is the latest of Kim Deitch’s graphic novels to showcase his obsessive burrowing into the nooks and crannies of vintage American popular culture. Where Boulevard of Broken Dreams focused on the earliest days of the animation industry, Alias the Cat delved into the history…
Now in stock: The Best American Comics Criticism
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Best American Comics Criticism Edited by Ben Schwartz; cover illustrations by Drew Friedman 360-page 6" x 9" illustrated (b&w) softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-148-0 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Whether you choose to call them “comics lit,” “graphic novels,” or just “thick comic books,” book-length narratives told in words and pictures confidently elbowed their way into the cultural spotlight in the first decade of this new millennium — beginning with the simultaneous 2001 release of Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Daniel Clowes’ David…
