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}
Daily OCD: 12/10/09
Starting with today's Online Commentary & Diversions, some minor formatting changes to hopefully make it easier to scan all that text: • Review: "Published in the oversize Sunday page format ala the Fantagraphics’ Popeye collection (also, brilliant), Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938 collects the earliest of Foster’s tales of the exiled Prince of Thule. … The colors are warm and vibrant, and the line art pristine. The stories themselves are a delight. … The art is consistently stunning… each page is spectacular to behold. … The strips in Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938 are merely the first installment of a…
Video/slideshow catch-up: Love and Rockets edition
Two more overdue video & photo slideshows to share with you today: the first for Locas II: Maggie, Hopey & Ray, the new hardcover Love and Rockets omnibus from Jaime Hernandez; and the second for Love and Rockets: New Stories #2, with the newest work from Jaime & Gilbert. Hit those links to view the slideshows at higher res than they’re embedded here.
The Fun Never Stops!
We hope that in all the excitement over the 3rd Anniversary Party this Saturday at Fantagraphics Bookstore — for which we have assembled the most amazing group of cartoonists ever — you don't overlook the equally auspicious Portable Grindhouse panel discussion on Sunday, December 13 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. It promises to be both entertaining and enlightening. Participants include artist Lisa Petrucci of Something Weird, the world's premier purveyor of psychotronic film (and the subject of a new art book KICKASS KUTIES from Dark Horse); cartoonist Marc Palm of the exalted Scarecrow Video; Seattle Times pop culture correspondent Mark…
Holiday shipping deadline
Don't forget, if you want your order shipped by our Standard shipping option within the U.S. to arrive before Christmas, tomorrow (Friday, December 11) is the deadline to get your order in! (If you're shipping to a P.O. box, you'll want to select First Class or Priority Mail shipping rather than Standard.) After that, you'll have until Monday for USPS Priority Mail delivery and until next Friday for 2nd Day UPS. We'll post reminders for those deadlines as well. If you need some gift suggestions, check out our handy Holiday Gift Guide with lots of ideas for every interest and…
Daily OCD: 12/9/09
Chock full o' Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: The Village Voice 's R.C. Baker names 2009's Best Comics and Graphic Novels. Among the choices: "A lucid nightmare, Al Columbia's dazzlingly well-drawn Pim & Francie features vignettes of its young protagonists menaced by creepy relatives or starring in exceedingly grim fairy tales. These inky visions seem unearthed from the deepest vaults of Uncle Walt's id. … Anything but Victorian, Nell Brinkley (1886–1944) celebrated the Roaring '20s with sinuous lines and colors as lurid as William Randolph Hearst's presses could muster. Author Trina Robbins notes, in the lavishly oversize The Brinkley…
Al Columbia Appearance and Signing at Ada Books in Providence R.I.
Al Columbia will be at Ada Books for two hours on December 11th from 6pm to 8pm to sign his new book, Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days. Ada Books Al Columbia717 Westminster Street December 11, 2009Providence RI, 02903 6pm to 8pm401.432.6222 "A lucid nightmare, Al Columbia's dazzlingly well-drawn Pim & Francie features vignettes of its young protagonists menaced by creepy relatives or starring in exceedingly grim fairy tales. These inky visions seem unearthed from the deepest vaults of Uncle Walt's id." – R.C. Baker, Village Voice "[Pim and Francie] showcases…Columbia's self-frustrating mastery: his absolute command of the idiom of lush, old-fashioned cartooning, and the…
Stüssy x Basil Wolverton
The latest cartoon artist to get the t-shirt treatment from streetwear giant Stüssy (following the likes of Jaime Hernandez & Peter Bagge): Basil Wolverton! There's a big feature with an interview with Basil's son Monte right on the Stüssy website right now (no permanent link, though, since it's all Flash-based). Found via Tee Shirt Blog (en Français). Totally tubular!
Video/slideshow catch-up: Peanuts & more
They're long past due in terms of the books' release dates, but please enjoy these Flickr video & photo slideshows of The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 (link to Flickr) and the 1971-1974 Box Set (link to Flickr) nonetheless. And there are more recent photo/video uploads of summer books — I'll just link to them so as not to clog the page with embedded players: Abstract Comics: The Anthology (slideshow – order/more info)From Wonderland with Love: Danish Comics in the Third Millennium (slideshow – order/more info)Rock Candy: The Artwork of Femke Hiemstra (slideshow – order/more info) There's about 8 more to come,…
Mr. Natural papercraft toy
Over at the Toy-a-Day blog you can download a PDF to print out and assemble this adorable papercraft toy of R. Crumb's Mr. Natural. Well-timed with our announcement today of the first-ever hardcover edition of The Book of Mr. Natural! Thanks to Joseph Chiang for the tip on Facebook.
