Now available for preview and pre-order: The Comics Journal #298, featuring interviews with Umbrella Academy artists Gabriel Bá & Fábio Moon; Perry Bible Fellowship's Nicholas Gurewitch; and Thriller artist Trevor Von Eeden, plus a gallery of Percy Crosby's Skippy strips and a whole lot more — click here to check out the full Table of Contents. This issue is scheduled to be in stock and ready to ship in mid-June and in stores approximately 4 weeks after that (subject to change). View a photo & video slideshow preview embedded here. Click here if it is not visible, and/or to view…
Daily OCD: 5/11/09
• Review: "Petey & Pussy is surreal, rude, crass, crude with studied obnoxiousness, and bitterly, bitingly funny in a perfect post-modern manner… an utterly captivating world of bawdy, grown-up laughs that only the most po-faced conservative could resist. Adult fun for slacker smart-asses of all ages guaranteed to make your beer spurt out of your nose so read carefully…" – Win Wiaceck, Now Read This! • Review: "Humbug was cool beyond cool… fabulous art…" – Roger Sabin, The Guardian • Review: "The Humbug set from Fantagraphics is out and it's great. Fine printing and binding will keep this slipcased two-volume set…
Thrizzle previzzle at ICv2
Did you catch Snake 'N' Bacon last night? Kuppermania kontinues today with an exclusive 5-page preview of Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1 at ICv2.com!
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #513
{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…
Snake ‘N’ Bacon TONIGHT
There's been a bit of confusion with the schedule but Michael Kupperman's star-studded Snake 'N' Bacon TV program definitely makes its debut TONIGHT at 12:45 AM on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim — that's less than 3 hours away for you East Coasters. And as if you need more reason to stay up late, it's followed by a spiritual cousin, the excellent British comedy show The Mighty Boosh. If you like things that are funny and good, for gosh sakes, it's your lucky night! The only way it could be better is if they were also showing The Drinky Crow Show,…
TONIGHT in Georgetown
DETAILS HERE. Original art. New book. Tony signing. Why would you miss this?
Webcomics update for 5/8/09
New strips for your Friday evening: It's swine flu time in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan… The kids' tense hideout continues 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 in our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's Rocky, topics include pregnancy, math, and urban legends.
Daily OCD: 5/8/09
Your late Friday Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Jaime [Hernandez]'s entry [in Love and Rockets: New Stories #1]… is like a huge riff on what might have happened if superhero comics started their evolutionary path by focusing on more female-centered concerns instead of testosterone-fueled fisticuffs… Gilbert's contributions are hard to describe, mainly because they are so surreal. They really have to be experienced and interpreted on your own." – John Jakala, Sporadic Sequential • Plug: GrassrootsModern works in a nice mention of Beasts! Book 1 and Book 2 in their spotlight on Tiny Showcase • Preview: Wow Cool gives…
Is this too much like a Tweet?
If I were more creative, computer glitches like this one wouldn't impress me so much but now I know how to design any future Techno Usagi book.
Pollard art for sale
Robert Pollard is having a spring cleaning sale of original collage art, including many pieces featured in our book Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard (the piece above was used for the back cover, for instance). There are unframed pieces and framed pieces starting here.
