This weekend (April 10-11), Mike Baehr, Janice Headley, Gary Groth and myself head out to the Big Apple for the annual MoCCA Arts Festival. I haven't been to MoCCA in a few years, so I'm especially looking forward to the trip. We have a slew of signings all weekend long as well as a remarkably potent lineup of new books debuting at the show, including: Artichoke Tales by Megan KelsoBest American Comics Criticism, edited by Ben SchwartzBilly Hazenuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony MillionaireCaptain Easy Vol. 1 by Roy CraneDungeon Quest by Joe DalyCulture Corner by Basil WolvertonBlazing Combat s/c…
Webcomics update for 4/2/10 (late again)
Sorry you had to wait all weekend for our weekly online strips! That's one grumpy-looking cat in this week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson… …but that horse doesn't look as grumpy as you might expect in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan…. …and now Steven Weissman says he wants to give B.C. a run for its money with this week's one-day-too-late Barack Hussein Obama strip.
Things to see: 4/5/10
Daily clips & strips — click through for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Via the Family blog, Gary Panter draws a chalk mural (YouTube link) A bunch of g-g-g-ghosts in development by Steven Weissman • Sketchbook page by John Hankiewicz • Some kind of stuff in progress by Frank Santoro • An old Fantagraphics issue of Usagi Yojimbo gets the Covered treatment by Carla Rodgrigues • Steve Lafler's 1980s Fantagraphics series Dog Boy is being serialized at CO2 Comics • Google translates the title of this Marco Corona story excerpt as "Merits of Satan" (very NSFW) • Johnny Ryan…
Daily OCD: 4/5/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Look out, it's Tom Spurgeon's Best of 2009 list at The Comics Reporter. Fantagraphics category rankings are listed below, with complete lists and Tom's commentary to be found at the link above: Best Archival/Reprints: 14: Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me by Peter Bagge 13: The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book by Joe Daly12: The Complete Peanuts 1971-1974 by Charles M. Schulz10: The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons 1913-1940 8: You Are There by Jacques Tardi & Jean-Claude Forest7: Luba by Gilbert Hernandez4: Locas II: Maggie, Hopey & Ray by Jaime…
Things to see: 4/2/10
Daily clips & strips — click through for improved/additional viewing: • Wally Gropius gets animated by Tim Hensley — I had't previously noticed the floppy ascot action • The fourth and fifth installments of Tim Lane's Belligerent Piano • I love it when Renee French takes these lo-fi snapshots of her sketches • Steve Brodner's latest — it seems I've been missing a lot of his stuff because I've been following the wrong feed, so there's lots to catch up on • Johnny Ryan presents The Lighter Side of Being an Unstoppable Killing Machine
Daily OCD: 4/2/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: We published 3 of "The 6 Most Underrated Comics of 2009" according to Robot 6's Chris Mautner, including Giraffes in My Hair: A Rock 'n' Roll Life by Bruce Paley & Carol Swain ("Swain's low-key, nonchalant art fits perfectly with Paley's tales of hippie wanderings and punk-era decadence, stripping the stories of any rock glamor and tinging them with a genuine sadness. Really, this book just underscores how talented and sharp an artist Swain really is") From Wonderland with Love: Danish Comics in the Third Millennium ("…Nikoline Wedelin's haunting, chilling Because I Love You…
He Likes to Draw Funny Things
Pull the kids up on your lap, turn up the volume on your computer, and enjoy this performance from cartoonist/musician Archer Prewitt, live on "Chic-A-Go-Go," the cutest all-ages dance show on cable access in Chicago. A COUNTING ERROR by John and Mark from Barry Phipps on Vimeo. And while you're at it, and if the kids haven't squirmed away yet, check out this silly video from John & Mark, featuring artwork by Mr. Prewitt. In fact, it's the same artwork that adorns the album John & Mark's Children's Record on Tight Ship Records. You can even download 16 pages of…
Rob Liefeld to draw next issue of Ganges
What do you mean we should've broken this story yesterday?
The House of No by Derek Van Gieson – Apr. 2, 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}
John Pham solo show at GR2
This looks like it's going to be a dazzling art show of John Pham's paintings (and a few sculptures) at GR2 in LA April 10 – May 5. The opening reception is on Saturday April 10, 6:30-10 PM. More info here.
