Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Dash Shaw made this zine to distribute at the Sundance-organized table-read of the script for his in-development animated feature The Ruined Cast (interior pages at the link) • I like this Frank Santoro image, whatever it is • Jim Woodring redefines "treehugger" — yikes! • This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Daily OCD: 5/19/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Part theater of cruelty, part joyous liberating revolution, Jim Woodring's freakishly beautiful Weathercraft is at once the most direct and most elliptical of his Frank comics that I can remember reading." – Sean T. Collins, Attentiondeficitdisorderly • Plug: Newsarama's J. Caleb Mozzocco calls Dame Darcy's Meat Cake "something to get excited about" • Links: Love & Maggie rounds up links to recent Love and Rockets-related reviews
New Comics Day 5/19/10
It couldn't be a finer time to be a Fantagraphics fan as we have three major book releases scheduled to land in comic shops this week (with scuttlebutt that some shops may have received them last week). Read on for blogospheric descriptions and reaction: Weathercraft by Jim Woodring 104-page black & white 7" x 9.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-340-8 "Anecdotal as this is, I’ve heard absolutely nothing but good things about this new Jim Woodring project, a 104-page return to his signature Frank character, although the story itself focuses on damned, slovenly humanoid swine thingy Manhog as he taps into…
Gilbert Hernandez covers Kristin Hersh’s memoir Rat Girl
I was excited to see this photo posted on Twitter by Kristin Hersh yesterday, with Gilbert Hernandez's cover art for her upcoming memoir Rat Girl, to be released by Penguin in the U.S. on August 31. Besides being a phenomenal songwriter and performer with Throwing Muses, 50FOOTWAVE and solo, Kristin is one of the best storytellers and writers in the performing arts biz, no lie, and she has some amazing tales to tell. This book is a must-get. UPDATE: I just found out it was colored by our own Jacob Covey! It just keeps getting better.
Comics Critics Unite at Skylight Books on May 27
BEN SCHWARTZ, SAMMY HARKHAM, and ROBERT FIORE discuss THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS CRITICISM at SKYLIGHT BOOKS! WHEN: Thursday, 05/27/2010 | 7:30pm – 9:30pm Ben Schwartz, editor of the new anthology The Best American Comics Criticism, will discuss comics and comics criticism with Kramers Ergot editor Sammy Harkham and comics critic Robert Fiore at L.A.'s SKYLIGHT BOOKS! Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont AvenueLos Angeles, California 90027 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…
Comics Critics Unite at Skylight Books!
BEN SCHWARTZ, SAMMY HARKHAM, and ROBERT FIORE discuss BEST AMERICAN COMICS CRITICISM at SKYLIGHT BOOKS! WHEN: Thursday, 05/27/2010 | 7:30pm – 9:30pm Ben Schwartz, editor of the new anthology Best American Comics Criticism, will discuss comics and comics criticism with Kramers Ergot editor Sammy Harkham and comics critic Robert Fiore at L.A.'s SKYLIGHT BOOKS! Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont AvenueLos Angeles, California 90027 UPDATE! Just added: JOE MATT and BRIAN DOHERTY!
Things to see: 5/18/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • From Scott Eder Gallery, a selection of Jim Woodring's penciled roughs for Weathercraft, plus two paintings • It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy" from John Kerschbaum • A new portrait of Johnny Cash and other news from Dame Darcy • Anders Nilsen reveals where it all went wrong
Daily OCD: 5/18/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Operating in the territory of Rube Goldberg, Wolverton's convoluted plans for achieving his ludicrous goals [in The Culture Corner] rely less on mousetrap-like technical gewgaws than the artist's signature grotesques, which are laugh-out-loud joy. While a must-have for Wolverton completists, even newcomers will find the humor readily accessible." – Publishers Weekly • Review: "Just what is Dash Shaw on? And may I please have some? …The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. [is] an anything-goes anthology quite attractively packaged by Fantagraphics Books, right down to the transparent, animation-cel-esque jacket. … Yeah, [the title…
Comix at the Silver Lake Jubilee
This coming weekend, May 22-23, 2010, the Silver Lake Jubilee in Los Angeles is hosting "Jubilee Comix," a comics showcase featuring live readings at El Cid both mornings beginning at 10am featuring Tom Neely, Robert Goodin, Jesse Moynihan, Ted Stearn, David King and Malachi Ward. Afterward, all of them, plus Tim Hensley and Olga Volozova, will be signing in the Literary Village. And Esther Pearl Watson is just one of many comics and small-press artists exhibiting in the "We Come in Peace" collaborative "zine fort" installation. Sounds like a can't-miss!
Things to see: 5/17/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Vice presents personal training, Johnny Ryan style • Hotwire contributor Onsmith contributes ths wraparound cover and interior illustrations to the second issue of the literary zone The Folio Club • On Covered, Aviv Itzcovitz takes on The Complete Peanuts Vol. 1 • A 1946 Jim Flora rendition of Woody Herman in celebration of Herman's birthday yesterday • Cut-paper art by Lilli Carré • A new Lucky strip from Gabrielle Bell • "Jonah in Green," a 1997 portrait by Mark Kalesniko • Wasp No. 04 by Renee French…
