We received the list of our nominees for this year's Ignatz Awards. It's a good lookin' list, and we're especially proud to have staffer Jason T. Miles nominated for Outstanding Comic! As is traditional, we've put all of our nominated titles on sale — 15% off for a limited time! Click here to browse & buy. Recipients of the brick will be announced at SPX on September 26. For all the nominees, head to the SPX website for the official announcement. Outstanding Artist Tim Hensley, Mome (Fantagraphics), Kramer's Ergot #7 (Buenaventura) Richard Sala, Delphine (Fantagraphics/Coconino) Josh Simmons, Mome (Fantagraphics)…
Daily OCD: 8/24/09
A new week brings an avalanche of new Online Commentary & Diversions: • Profile: For the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tirdad Derakhshani looks at the past, present, and future of Prince Valiant: "The release Tuesday of Prince Valiant, Vol. 1: 1937-1938, the first in a new series of gorgeously printed, hardcover Valiant collections from Fantagraphics Books, served as a bittersweet reminder of the century-long rise and eventual decline of a great American art form, the comic strip." • Review: "…Al [Columbia] decided to dredge up old ghosts, unfinished pieces, trifles he had thrown away then reconsidered and offered them up to us…
The Squirrel Machine advert
Hans Rickheit drew this advertisement for The Squirrel Machine which appears in the new issue of The Comics Journal and posted it on his blog. Now I can re-post it here and plug 2 things at once!
Sticks and stones
Johnny Ryan takes a bath in haterade. See the whole thing here.
Get yer Meat Cakes
If you've been trying to hunt down the early, out-of-print issues of Dame Darcy's Meat Cake, they'll soon be available as self-published individual issues and the 3-issue compilation pictured above. More info and ordering links are on Dame Darcy's blog.
Karasik & Fletcher Hanks Hit the Road!
Presently the only way to get a cool Fletcher Hanks coloring book (with a swell cover by Charles Burns) is to either order "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!" via Fantagraphics OR get a copy by showing up at one of Paul Karasik's signings. At these signing Paul will be presenting "The Fletcher Hanks Experience," an illustrated tour over the brutally surreal Hanks landscape narrated by Fletcher Hanks, Jr. August 26, 7:30: Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, Tisbury, MASeptember 3, 5:00: West Tisbury Library, West Tisbury, MASeptember 16, 7:00 The Strand Bookstore, NYC, NYSeptember 27 SPX, Small Press Expo, Bethesda, MDOctober 18 7:00: Politics and…
Peter Bagge’s Can You Imagine? Opening for Harvey Danger this Sat.
Some exciting news from Peter Bagge: Peter Bagge and Steve Fisk's pop music combo "Can You Imagine?" will be opening for Harvey Danger at Seattle's Crocodile Club this Sat., Aug. 29th for what's being billed as HD's last performance (and they MEAN it this time!). They'll be performing at an earlier 5 pm show, where HD will be doing a "quiet" set — a perfect time for fuddy-duddies who like to go to bed early! Tickets are $20, and can be purchased online here: http://thecrocodile.com/index.html?page=calendar&event=1963880 (The 8pm show is sold out).
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #587
click to enlarge 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…
Webcomics update for 8/21/09
Ring in your weekend with our weekly batch of webcomics! Blecky battles bugs in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan… Things have reached a chilling climax in this week's installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 51-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures…. And Rocky's Cuban vacation wraps up, and it's a fine "welcome home," in our Monday-Friday Rocky strips by Martin Kellerman. Enjoy!
Comics from Brubaker, Woodring, Hernandez & many more now available again
Holy smokes — collector alert! We had 8 great comics from past years that, due to record-keeping error, have not been available for sale for years but were really in stock all along! Now you can buy them again — quantities are limited so act fast: An Accidental Death by Ed Brubaker & Eric Shanower (1993) Before he killed Captain America, Eisner winner Brubaker racked up his first nomination for this tale, delineated in rich, realistic detail by Shanower. Was a teenage girl's death accidental, or obsession-fueled murder? $3.50 Freaks #2 by Jim Woodring & F. Solano Lopez (1992) The…
