FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS AND THE STRAND PRESENT: AN EVENING OF HUMBUG In 1957, five artists – HARVEY KURTZMAN, WILL ELDER, ARNOLD ROTH, AL JAFFEE and JACK DAVIS — hot on the heels of creating MAD magazine, pooled their money and their talent and entered into the creative, exuberant folly of a lifetime by creating the greatest satirical magazine of their careers. Join HUMBUG co-founders Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee in a book signing and discussion about this historic publication with Fantagraphics Publisher and editor of the collected HUMBUG, Gary Groth. Attendees will also enjoy an exclusive screening of a documentary short film about the late Will Elder. LISTING INFORMATION: An Evening…
Leah Hayes Tours France in April
Leah Hayes and her band, Scary Mansion, are headed to France later this month for a short music tour (including a gig opening for Bonnie "Prince" Billy!). She'll even have copies of her two books, Funeral of the Heart and Holy Moly, for sale at the merch table. Go see Leah restore dignity to America. 22/04 : PARIS* / La Maroquinerie 23/04 : GRENOBLE* / Le Ciel 24/04 : AJACCIO* / l'Aghja 25/04 : PRINTEMPS DE BOURGES / L'Auditorium (avec Bonnie Prince Billy) 27/04 : CLERMONT FD / Le rat Pacl 28/04 : BORDEAUX / Le Saint Ex 29/04 :…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #482
{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…
Pics: ECCC, Jaime & Stan show
Finally getting around to Flogging photos from Emerald City Comicon and our Jaime Hernandez/Stan Sakai exhibit opening last weekend. Lots more photos, plus a couple of short videos, can be seen in our Flickr sets linked above. Jaime: Dame Darcy (checking out Mother, Come Home) & Paul Hornschemeier: Bill Schelly: Green Lantern & friends flip through Ellen Forney's Lust: Stan & Jaime post-show Saturday chatting: Xaime & Sakai art (head to Flickr for closer looks at each individual piece): Men of the hour:
Daily links: 4/10/09
• Review: PLAYBACK:stl analyzes Comics Are for Idiots! by Johnny Ryan: "Ryan's loathing of the precious, the celebrity-obsessed, the hypocritical, and so on bleeds thru the best of these sorts of cartoons… Ryan's yen for out-offending every book he's done before is really just more righteous anger dressed up as sick comedy." • Review: The Comics Reporter on Blazing Combat: "Like many of the best reprint projects… this republication of the four-issue Warren war magazine into spiffy hardcover form features work that you can't easily buy anywhere else, is historically significant and offers its buyers a lot of very good…
Mome 14 errata
Mome readers take note: a page from Dash Shaw's story in Vol. 14 was accidentally printed out of sequence. Our apologies. Dash explains on his blog.
Webcomics update for 4/10/09
Your weekly dose of new webcomics awaits… More awesome parenting from Aunt Jiggles in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan… It's horror time in this week's installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 50-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures…. And Rocky gets into some issues of varying degrees of seriousness (from Islam to "gwifstrexes") in our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's hilarious Swedish smash-hit Rocky, updated Monday-Friday!
Mr. Media interview with Monte Wolverton
If you missed the Mr. Media interview with Monte Wolverton about The Wolverton Bible when it was originally broadcast, now you can listen right here thanks to the magic of this embedded player below (or click here if it's not visible):
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #481
{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 links: 4/9/09
• Interview: The Mother Jones "Mojo Audio" podcast talks to Steve Brodner (includes audio stream/download and transcript) • Preview: If you didn't receive our latest FBI Informant email newsletter yesterday but still want to check it out, the good folks at Comic Related have you covered • Things to see: Now here's a bracket I can get behind: French comics arm wrestling comics jam death match! Featuring Killoffer, Olivier Schrauwen, Lewis Trondheim and many others (via Drawn)
