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}
Look, Joe Kimball
Us and Mome contributor Joe Kimball just found each other on Flickr, where there's a small but gratifying assortment of Joe's art to see.
Daily OCD: 11/12/09 – bonus all-Vice edition
I knew I was getting off too easy! Nick Gazin is trying to kill me. There are also some negative reviews of our books at the links below, but I won't say any more about those: • Review: "Fantagraphics has come to my foreign comic book rescue and published hardcovered English translations of West Coast Blues, which was good, and [You Are There], which is great. … Tardi has nice skinny lines and large fields of black. His architecture and cars and landscapes are amazing. Just the idea of Arthur There running up and down the walls and living in…
Daily OCD: 11/12/09
A light load of Online Commentary & Diversions today: • Plug: "Okay, I see a lot of books and comics passing my desk every week but ye gods this stood out – pre comic code Steve Ditko. Let me just say that again: STEVE DITKO!! …Fantagraphics’ Strange Suspense: the Steve Ditko Archives [Vol. 1] goes on sale today, collecting material from the first couple of years of the now legendary comics god’s career; fabulous sci-fi, fatal femmes, lurid horror… And its a lovely looking hardback edition, the sort you give pride of place on your shelves (which is what we…
New MAAKIES tees…
… available at MAAKIES.COM.
Bookmark: T. Edward Bak art blog
Another hot tip via Zack Soto: T. Edward Bak has a new art blog enigmatically titled °Ø° (or antizerogravity) full of his sketches, illustrations and preview pages from his Mome serial "Wild Man."
Daily OCD: 11/11/09
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Monte Schulz has proven that his father isn’t the only Schulz with considerable storytelling talent. This Side of Jordan is a strong vision of the American Heartland at a time when America was a little less jaded, yet many in the country had already developed a malaise of directionlessness. Schulz manages to capture a moment in history, a piece of humanity in transition. It’s bleak, but funny, and smartly written. It may not have any pictures, but readers of good fiction should appreciate what Schulz has accomplished." – Michael C. Lorah, Newsarama •…
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I love this.
Tony Millionaire Juxtapozed
Juxtapoz magazine sics Nicholas Gurewitch (Perry Bible Fellowship) on Tony Millionaire (Maakies), hilarity ensues in two parts.
Whoa indeed.
Via Zack Soto on Twitter.
