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.
Things to see: 4/1/10
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources: • Kevin Huizenga's new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip reminds me how grateful I am that Seattle is mostly free of the phenomenon in question • This week's "I, Anonymous" spot by Steven Weissman • This week's Maakies by Tony Millionaire (and guest writers including Drinky Crow Show co-creator Eric Kaplan) • A blind-in-one-eye California towhee by Debbie Drechsler • A trio of new silkscreen prints from Lilli Carré • It's the last of the Julia Wertz / Johnny Ryan kids-book spoof strips • Speaking…
Daily OCD: 4/1/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "There are two types of war stories: war as the great human drama, man accomplishing amazing feats in the most horrible of circumstances, or war as the great human tragedy, the ultimate loss of life without any rhyme or reason. Tardi’s book fits very firmly into the latter category. … Ink-soaked and gory, Tardi’s detailed renderings drive home the grotesquery of the war and the ordeal of the young men fighting in it. …It Was the War of the Trenches creates an aura of loss, regret and terror." – Michael C. Lorah, Newsarama •…
