For a limited time (the next 17-18 days or so), Paul Hornschemeier is accepting commissions to draw anything from your fevered imagination. I've seen him draw a cubist Smurf — the sky's the limit here, folks. Fully rendered, $50 B&W, $100 color. Details and purchasing info right here (or just talk to him at the MoCCA Fest).
El premio de Hopey Glass
La educación de Hopey Glass, the Spanish edition of The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez from Ediciones La Cupula, has won the Best Foreign Work Award at this year's Saló Internacional del Còmic de Barcelona. Congratulations Jaime!
Jason TONIGHT in NYC!
Don't forget!
Daily OCD: 6/2/09
Updates of Online Commentary & Diversions may be oddly timed for the rest of the week as we're eyeball deep in MoCCA preparations. • Review: "[Harvey] Kurtzman and company aimed high for a more sophisticated humor mag than the competition… Fantagraphics’ package for it is bar none — handsome, sturdy and restored with great care… I was most interested in the behind-the-scenes story of Humbug and the creative process that went into it — not to mention doomed it — and the book’s introduction and exclusive interviews more than satisfy on that count." – Rod Lott, Bookgasm • Review: "In…
New Bagge t-shirts. Buy ’em!
From World of Strange, 3 new Peter Bagge t-shirts, 2 featuring classic Hate and Neat Stuff covers and one for Pete's new band! Purchase!
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #530
{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…
That’s right, we’re moving to Dubai
Is this the title page for Tim Hensley's soon-to-be-collected masterwork Wally Gropius? I can only guess, but god damn I love it. Clicky click for process images that you can click to blow up bigger.
Richard Sala art blog!
RICHARD SALA ART BLOG! Look inside.
Jaxon’s Last Ride
From Underground Comix historian Patrick Rosenkranz, a video tribute to Underground pioneer Jack Jackson. Watch on YouTube.
Webcomics update for 6/2/09
Due to holidays, vacations and conventions, our webcomics posting schedule continues to be a little goofed up the next couple of weeks; our apologies. Ah, those childhood lessons in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan… It's the ominous homecoming of Chocolate Cheeks 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 this week's Mon.-Fri. batch of Martin Kellerman's Rocky includes crime talk, unwelcome phone calls… and an extra-big 9-panel strip!
