If, like me, you enjoy baseball almost as much as comics, this is one of the coolest posts I've seen in awhile. Wezen-ball uses The Complete Peanuts to calculate the Peanuts gang's baseball record from 1950-1970. I love the idea of Kim Thompson's awesome Complete Peanuts indexes being useful to sabermetricians.
Mome 17 launch party photos
Check out these photos by Daniel Seth Pagel of Sunday night's classy-looking launch party for Mome Vol. 17 at Bergen Street Comics which I ganked from Nate Neal's Facebook page. Sara Edward-Corbett and Nate Neal Gabrielle Bell and Sara Edward-Corbett Nate Neal, Gabrielle Bell, Derek Van Gieson Derek Van Gieson and Nate Neal
Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s – Introduction & Table of Contents
{product_snapshot:id=1651,true,false,false,right} Introduction by Michael Dowers Before we get started it must be said that this book is not about all mini comix. This book is about a small group of comix creators who were inspired by an alternative comix art form known as underground comix. With no other way of getting published they became their own publishers and went on to produce handmade mini comix themselves. This book is certainly not the last word about mini comix. Mini comix themselves would cover every comic book genre imaginable… This is the story of the underground mini comix of the 1980s… October,…
Daily OCD: 1/11/10
Looky here, Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: On Random House's Suvudu blog, Dallas Middaugh selects 2008's Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw as #3 on the Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2009: "This book came from out of nowhere to great critical acclaim, and it pushed young Mr. Shaw in the spotlight as one of the most exciting new cartoonists in the field. … This haunting story of a dysfunctional family twists and turns and stuck with me long after I read it." • List: At Comic Book Galaxy, Marc Sobel counts down "The 15 Best Back Issues I…
Art Clokey, 1921-2010
Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and a significant torch-bearer for stop-animation, passed away on Friday at the age of 88. In July of 2006, I was excited to have the opportunity to meet him and his son, Joe Clokey (above). Below are some photos I took of Gumby artifacts in the exhibit that was touring at the time, in celebration of Gumby's 50th Anniversary. Art Clokey was very sweet and the family was clearly excited to have their father getting this public recognition for his iconic creation. Gumby has a long life outside of the great film shorts, including a…
HLK SMSH
Steven Weissman's new "HLK" print, only 10 bucks!
Webcomics update for 1/8/10
Friday webcomics are back in action! The joys of parenting in this week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson… …creative housekeeping, Blecky style, in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan…. …and "Barack Hussein Obama is [finally] back from vacation [thank you very much] and ready to PARTY!!" sez Steven Weissman!
20 Years of Warts
Holy smokes, has it really been 20 years since Warts and All first came out? Movie Morlocks, the official blog of cable network TCM, posted a lengthy and loving tribute to the book. While it was originally published by Penguin, we've had the honor of keeping it in print in recent years. I was influenced by this book at an impressionable age and, like the author of the TCM post, I can still recall some of the gags to this day ("We'll have sex in a minute, honey. First I got to go to the toilet — you know I…
Daily OCD: 1/8/10
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: On the Forbidden Planet International Blog Log, guest critic Chris Marshall's top 10 graphic novels of 2009 places Blazing Combat in a tie for 4th place: "There was a time when War Comics told War Fact. They showed us the blood, death, camaraderie and horror. [This] series did just that and didn’t hold back." • Review: "Fantagraphics has truly pulled out all the stops on the production of [Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons], giving it such marvelous style and pizzazz. … But it’s the content, of course, that is truly king….
Ian Curtis by Jim Blanchard
This recent commissioned portrait of Joy Division's Ian Curtis by Jim Blanchard blows me away. Hit Jim's blog for the larger version.
