Ken Meyer Jr. at ComicAttack.net, as part of his "Ink Stains" series looking back at fanzines from the '60s-'80s (previously: Gary Groth's Fantastic Fanzine), takes a look at the vintage sci fi/fantasy fanzine No Sex. Among the contributors he talks to is Jaime Hernandez, and he offers a free download of issue 14 from 1980, which contains a 4-page story by Gilbert Hernandez back when he used to sign his work "'Bert."
Daily OCD: 11/4/09
Your Online Commentary & Diversions-style goodies for today: • Review: "…[F]or fans of off-beat crime…, I give you Jacques Tardi’s no-shit brilliant adaptation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s West Coast Blues. … [W]hat starts out as something straight out of a Hitchcock classic like North by Northwest soon escalates into something more savage, more profound, and utterly wonderful… It succeeds brilliantly in good old-fashioned crime thrills, for sure. The violence is brutal, the story exciting and surprising, and the characters are brilliantly rendered. But then there’s that extra little layer, those subtle themes, those strange details, the lyrical narration passages — let’s…
The Fletcher Hanks Experience in Evanston TOMORROW
Paul Karasik brings The Fletcher Hanks Experience to Comix Revolution tomorrow at 6 PM!
Blammo
If you like Noah Van Sciver's work in Mome and his hilarious cartoon interviews in The Comics Journal you should know that the 5th issue of his self-published comics series Blammo is out now!
First Look: Fantagraphics Releases for February 2010
Once again we're bringing you an advance sneak peek at our listings for the next issue of Previews, this time with our releases scheduled for February 2010. It's going to be a big month for us with 8 new books, including two new Love and Rockets collections (one from Gilbert & one from Jaime), a great Kim Deitch yarn, horror noir from Ho Che Anderson, Captain Easy Vol. 1 (resolicited from August), a new softcover edition of the almost-out-of-print Blazing Combat, The Best American Comics Criticism of the 21st Century, and, pictured above, the breathtaking new graphic novel from Eisner…
Charles Burns on The Sound of Young America
Charles Burns, interviewed live on stage in Philadelphia for The Sound of Young America radio show/podcast. Audio embedded below; link to download here. The Sound of Young America
Jim Woodring: on a roll
What? Jim Woodring just completed Weathercraft (due Spring '10) and he's already started work on a new Frank story? Truly our cups runneth over.
New Comics Day 11/4/09
Scheduled to arrive in comics shops across the country this week: Like a Dog by Zak Sally. This hardcover one-man anthology (not entirely accurate: there are two collaborative pieces in there) collects the first two issues of Sally's Eisner-nominated self-published series Recidivist along with short stories from Mome and elsewhere. Our usual battery of previews & reviews can be found here; check with your local shop to confirm availability because your time is valuable and gas is still pretty expensive.
RIP Carl Ballantine
Carl (with cigar) at Skylight Books in LA in 2008 with Drew Friedman. Photo by Pam Noles. Mark Evanier has a remembrance.
Previews: Fantagraphics Releases for February 2010
As seen in the pages of Previews, these are the books and comics slated for release by Fantagraphics Books in February, 2010. Please note that all details, including cover art, prices, specs, contents, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change. TEMPERANCE by Cathy Malkasian 240 pgs, 2 Color, 8 x 10, Hardcover, $22.99 ISBN 978-1-60699-323-1 Do ideas of war and enemies hold people together? Is a culture of conflict too seductive not to be irresistible? These are the questions 2008 Eisner Award Winner Cathy Malkasian explores in her second graphic novel Temperance, a fully realized, multi-layered world, inhabited…
