Neverending Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Only the Cinema's Ed Howard concludes counting down The Best Comics of the Decade: the top 20 includes "The Lute String" (available in Mome Vols. 9 & 10) by Jim Woodring at #16 ("It's moving, funny, and as with all of Woodring's work it demands a close reading"), Alias the Cat (originally The Stuff of Dreams) by Kim Deitch at #14 ("It's funny, goofy, exciting and far-ranging in its imaginative nonsense accumulations, and throughout it all Deitch's fond sense of nostalgia for a world that never quite was lends emotional heft to the…
Now in stock: Almost Silent by Jason
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Almost Silent by Jason 304-page black & white/duotone 6.5" x 8.75" hardcover • $24.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-315-6 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Almost Silent packages four original Jason graphic novels — three of them out of print since mid-2008 — into one compact, hardcover omnibus collection. (As the title indicates, this volume favors Jason’s pantomime works.) “You Can’t Get There from Here,” the longest story of the book (and the only one to be printed in color — well, a color), tells the tale of a love triangle involving…
C. Tyler motion comic
Uncovered Property by Carol Tyler from Doodybrains on Vimeo. Here's a story of Carol's from Late Bloomer turned into a "motion comic" by director Allen Colombo. Cool.
Things to see: 2/23/10
Click to see more better: • A recent commission by Richard Sala • Marco Corona draws a platypus for the launch of a new magazine by that name • More sketches (above) and the resulting finished watercolor (not shown here) by Mark Kalesniko • Steve Brodner's New Yorker ode to the Village Vanguard (with lots of preparatory sketches)
Daily OCD: 2/23/10
Bring on the Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Only the Cinema's Ed Howard begins counting down The Best Comics of the Decade: part 2 includes Black Hole by Charles Burns at #36 ("Few books do a better job of capturing the fear, and the excitement, of nascent desire and adolescent longing, as these diseased teens are driven mad by hormones and embarrassment"), Epileptic and Babel by David B. at #30 ("With his elegant style, dominated by striking blacks and contrasts, he invents numerous metaphors and visualizations for his brother's disease, treating the fight against the disease as a physical,…
Prof. Hornschemeier speaks
On his blog, Paul Hornschemeier discloses that he will be teaching a course in "Writing the Graphic Novel" at the University of Chicago, and as his official howdy-do to academia, he will be giving an open-to-the-public, snack-availing talk tomorrow evening. More info.
Vote Neon Knome!
So Michael Kupperman's Snake 'n' Bacon has been eliminated in that fast-food-sponsored Adult Swim pilot-season vote-off thing. BOOOO. But now you have a chance to vote for Ben Jones's Neon Knome! YAAAY!
Jaime Hernandez at UTEP tonight!
Last minute notice! Jaime Hernandez will be giving a keynote address at University of Texas El Paso's second-annual “El Paso in the Comics” event, at 7 PM tonight! More info here. (Via The Comics Reporter)
Luba by Gilbert Hernandez is LA Times Book Prize Finalist
We are pleased to announce that Luba by Gilbert Hernandez is a finalist for a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in their first-ever Graphic Novels category. See the complete list of finalists here. Winners will be announced on Friday, April 23, 2010. Congratulations Gilbert! A monumental honor for a monumental book.
Joost Swarte & Robert Crumb read Genesis
What we have here is an illustration by Joost Swarte depicting himself and Robert Crumb in Crumb's workroom paging through Crumb's Genesis, with a little help from a certain bearded, white-robed fellow. It was produced by (I think) Griffioen Grafiek as a limited-edition giclee print and can be ordered online from Pinceel out of Belgium. Spotted by our own Jason T. Miles.
