{mosimage} Fritz the Cat meets Jane Austen!?! This mostly autobiographical daily strip details the rudely hilarious travails of a young cartoonist and his layabout pals and neurotic girlfriends. Basically, it’s the pottymouthed animal-headed Seinfeld-esque comic strip we’ve all come to love. A smash hit in its native Sweden, presented in English for the first time. Join us Monday through Friday for a new daily strip, with a rolling archive of a week’s worth of strips. “It’s being acclaimed as the funniest Swedish comic of our time, but it’s more than that. Rocky is the long awaited generation novel that no…
Bookmark: Debbie Drechsler website, blog
From Debbie Drechsler comes word of her newly updated website, which now includes an online shop where you can purchase lovely notecards like the one pictured above, and her new nature sketch blog Just Around the Corner, home to drawings such as the study of a horse chestnut seed pictured below. Wonderful news!
Music Inspired by Fletcher Hanks, or Our Former Intern is Better than Your Former Intern
Though the office is in a state of mourning at losing our Scottish Connection (code name LAN Formatique), we can console ourselves with his music, which was inspired by the comics of Fletcher Hanks:
Daily OCD: 9/11/09
• Lists: Graphic Novel Reporter's "Graphic Novel Picks for Fall 2009" has Al Columbia's Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days as a pick for Tweens, while The Squirrel Machine, West Coast Blues, and The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD are on the Adult Fiction list • Review: "…[T]hese extraordinary visions from a different, four-colour era [in You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!] are as bold and striking as they are violent and strange…. Classic comics from a different age." – Grovel • Review: "This new book from Fantagraphics of Femke Hiemstra’s work [Rock Candy] is…
Petey & Pussy’s playlist
I'm pulling this out of today's Daily OCD and giving it its own post because this is one of my favorite links in a while: as part of Largehearted Boy's "Book Notes" series of author-created music playlists, the characters from Petey & Pussy — with help from their creator, John Kerschbaum — give a rundown of their favorite tracks with illustrated annotations as seen above. Hilarious!
Popeye Vol. 4: Plunder Island – Preview, Pre-Order
The new volume of the complete E.C. Segar Popeye, Vol. 4 of 6, includes one of the strip's highest peaks, the “Plunder Island” adventure, presented here for the first time in its complete, full-color, uncut glory! This oversized hardcover is now available for pre-order in our online shop, and we've have an exclusive 15-page PDF excerpt (6.4 MB) with 5 pages of Sundays and 10 pages of dailies available for free download. This book is scheduled be in stock and shipping in mid-October, and in stores approximately 4 weeks later (subject to change).
First Look: Fantagraphics Releases for December 2009
We just turned in our listings for the October issue of Previews, for our releases scheduled for December. The issue won't be out for a few more weeks, but you can get a first look at what's on tap right here! Spoiler alert: it includes King: The Special Edition by Ho Che Anderson, the Newave! anthology of 1980s underground minicomix, the new volume of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace, a new edition of the out-of-print 12th volume of The Complete Crumb Comics, Uptight #4 by Jordan Crane, and Chocolate Cheeks by Steven Weissman! Another great month full of great…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – “Sunday” strip #10
{mosimage} Fritz the Cat meets Jane Austen!?! This mostly autobiographical daily strip details the rudely hilarious travails of a young cartoonist and his layabout pals and neurotic girlfriends. Basically, it’s the pottymouthed animal-headed Seinfeld-esque comic strip we’ve all come to love. A smash hit in its native Sweden, presented in English for the first time. Join us Monday through Friday for a new daily strip, with a rolling archive of a week’s worth of strips. “It’s being acclaimed as the funniest Swedish comic of our time, but it’s more than that. Rocky is the long awaited generation novel that no…
Daily OCD: 9/10/09
Your Online Commentary & Diversions for today: • Review: "…[T]he velvety ease of the narrative and the facile blend of sexual, familial and natural intimacies on display suggest one of those steps forward with which the comics medium has been blessed over and over again this past decade. One falls through The Squirrel Machine as much as reads it, and the collection of feelings it imparts is as much due to the clarity of its narrative as it is the horror show that occasionally surges toward the reader from some deep place in Rickheit's mind, righteous and angry and wet."…
Jaime Hernandez at 826LA
On Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30 PM the 826LA Adult Writing Seminar Series presents "Writing Comics," a panel discussion featuring Jaime Hernandez and fellow cartoonists Lalo Alcaraz, Sammy Harkham and Keith Knight along with moderator Salvador Plascencia discussing "ink and pixels, pigments and politics, and how the love of comics mixes with the sticky waters of the business. Panelists will also answer your thought and question bubbles." More info here; tickets here.
