Oops, your Friday webcomics update slipped into early Saturday… Your second of three bar gags in a row in this week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson… …Blecky lays down the law in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan…. …and is it just me or does Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman just keep getting better and better?
Daily OCD: 1/22/10
A quick Online Commentary & Diversions update to close out the week: • List: Popmatters names Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box one of The Best of Books 2009: Non-Fiction: "This awesome picture book… [is] filled with a delightfully odd array of vintage video covers… VHS cassettes may be treated like toxic waste in the age of the Blu-ray, but Portable Grindhouse offers that micro minority who still remain faithful to their trusty VCR a long overdue reprieve." – Ronald Hart • Review: "Half the fun of [The Troublemakers] is trying to figure out just who is getting…
The House of No by Derek Van Gieson – Jan. 22, 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}
Jon Vermilyea print show in Brooklyn
Мишка presents: GOBLIN – A print series by Jon Vermilyea! 350 BroadwayBrooklyn, NY Opening party Thursday, Janurary 28th, 7-10 pm. Limited edition Goblin prints and T-shirts will be for sale!
Brooklyn Women in Comics panel discussion
Join Jessica Abel, Gabrielle Bell, and Jillian Tamaki for a panel discussion with Publishers Weekly's Calvin Reid on Jan. 28 at the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, at 10 Grand Army Plaza, in the Dweck Center, at 7:00 pm.
Daily OCD: 1/21/10
Past, present and future in today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Library Journal picks "Trina Robbins’s glam grab bag of Nell Brinkley serials," The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913–1940, as the best reprint on their Best Graphic Novels 2009 list •List: Thanks to Zack Soto for naming West Coast Blues by Tardi & Manchette, Prison Pit: Book 1 by Johnny Ryan, and Pim & Francie by Al Columbia amongst his Favorite Books of 2009 (via) • Review: "Imagine then what yesterday — or today's — right wingers would say about The Great Anti-War Cartoons……
NEWAVE! Exhibit and Party at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition and publication party for NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s on Saturday, January 30 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. This event promises to be both entertaining and enlightening. The public is invited to join us for this festive reunion of influential independent cartoonists. Self published mini comics in the 1970s and 1980s were the direct descendants of the Underground Comix movement of the 1960s hippie era. Early practitioners photocopied, stapled and distributed their miniature zines at comic book conventions and emerging comic book specialty shops. The immediacy and…
NEWAVE! Mini Comics Anthology Party at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition and publication party for NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s on Saturday, January 30 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. This event promises to be both entertaining and enlightening. The public is invited to join us for this festive reunion of influential independent cartoonists. Self published mini comics in the 1970s and 1980s were the direct descendants of the Underground Comix movement of the 1960s hippie era. Early practitioners photocopied, stapled and distributed their miniature zines at comic book conventions and emerging comic book specialty shops. The immediacy and…
Pedro Almodó-Marvel
I spotted a comics-related cameo while watching Pedro Almodóvar's hilarious Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown last night. Look! It's Bucky's friend! Captain America! Please also note the Almodóvar-esque photograph. Snort!
Now in stock: Hotwire Comics Vol. 3
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Hotwire Comics Vol. 3 By various artists; edited by Glenn Head The Harvey and Eisner nominated anthology of action, thrills, chills and trangression is back with a third volume! Anything goes in Hotwire, eschewing literary high-mindedness for a pure, gut-wrenching viscerality that you can tune in and rest your brain on after a long day. Hotwire the third leaps off the page from the get-go with David Sandlin’s “Infernal Combustion,” about boozing it up in a broke-down caddy, and Tim Lane’s bit of freight-hopping grit, “Spike.” Underground comics legend Mary Fleener…
