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…
Daily OCD: 8/21/09
Friday Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "As slim, smooth, and hard as its attractive, Adam Grano-designed album-style hardcover format, West Coast Blues is as strong a crime comic as you're likely to see this year (or until whenever the next Gipi Wish You Were Here Ignatz book comes out)… Tardi's art [is] a master class in spotted blacks and lines like garrote wire… This sucker's good." – Sean T. Collins • Things to see: I want to go to this crazy restaurant depicted by Tim Lane • Things to see: Third in a series of hand-drawn animated GIFs by…
Rush Limbaugh: still an anus
The Comics Journal's Matt Silvie suggested that we post this 1993 portrait of Rush Limbaugh by Steve Brodner (found in our Brodner book Freedom Fries) in response to the latest in Limbaugh's seemingly daily bigoted remarks, re: Rep. Barney Frank "living around Uranus." I'm only to happy to oblige.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #585
{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: 8/20/09
A few Online Commentary & Diversions links, all killer no filler: • Feature: Chris Mautner of Robot 6 kicks off that site's new "Comics College" column by giving an introduction to Love and Rockets, "one of the seminal titles… in shaping the sensibilities of the nascent indie scene." This article is a great complement to our own "How to Read Love and Rockets" feature • Review: "It's been awhile since I've seen Gilbert do a story as deliberately oblique and enigmatic as this, given that much of what he's done of late has been either wrapping up the fates of…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #563
{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…
Video: Kupperman at the Strand
Watch Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle reading last night at the Strand Bookstore in streaming video at the Strand website. There's no direct link, but look for the link on the player under "Recent Highlights" or "Highlights." The man does great voices!
