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)
Fantasy Eisnerball
Every year during the baseball season, when the All-Star teams are announced, some beat writer will put together a team of non All-Stars that could potentially rival the quality of the actual All-Stars. To that end, here's my non-Eisner Nominee Fanta Heavy Hitter starting line-up for 2009, with their non-nominated 2008 books in paretheses: Gilbert Hernandez (Love & Rockets: New Stories #1) Jaime Hernandez (Love & Rockets: New Stories #1) Steve Ditko (or Blake Bell, for Strange & Stranger) Michael Kupperman (Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4) Bob Levin (Most Outrageous) E.C. Segar (Popeye V. 3) Tim Lane (Abandoned Cars) Daniel Clowes (Ghost World: Special Edition) Charles M. Schulz (Complete…
Now in stock: Blazing Combat
Blazing Combat By Archie Goodwin & Various Artists Written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by such luminaries as Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Severin, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall, and Gene Colan, Blazing Combat was originally published by independent comics publisher James Warren in 1965 and ’66. Following in the tradition of Harvey Kurtzman’s Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, Goodwin’s stories reflected the human realities and personal costs of war rather than exploiting the clichés of the traditional men’s adventure genre. They were among the best comics stories about war ever published. Blazing Combat ended after its…
Now in stock: Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5 by Michael Kupperman
Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5 By Michael Kupperman Thrizzle #5 is the Old People's issue, dedicated to the Greatiest Generations! Aliens give an innocent man sexy woman's legs, and Twain and Einstein have many, many adventures, including a journey through multiple dreamscapes, a superhero/private eye caper, and a meeting with an enraged badger. Plus noir arts & crafts, hobo fashions, the birth of the Monkees and other old-timey favorites. 32-page duotone 6.75" x 9.5" comic book • $4.50 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #479
{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: 4/8/09
• Plug: In an interview with Newsarama, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz says "I adore that Richard Sala miniseries Delphine that he's putting out through Fantagraphics" (new issue out this summer!) • List/reviews: The Metabunker names and reviews their selections for the best comics of 2008, including Explainers by Jules Feiffer ("After half a century, Jules Feiffer’s classic Village Voice strips read at once as a succinct period portrait and an eloquent portrayal of everyday human affairs at any time… His nervous line captures well both the specific anxieties of the time, and the more general ones of simply being…
