The Dinosaur Gardens blog recently posted a full set of Basil Wolverton's "The Culture Corner" strips from Whiz Comics, 1945-1952. This seems like the right time to announce that we will be publishing these strips in book form later this year! Basil Wolverton's Culture Corner is currently scheduled for November 2009 and will be a 160-page full-color hardcover. In addition to showcasing our usual stellar restoration, design and production, our edition will also contain Wolverton's original pencil versions of each strip, which have been carefully preserved over the years, and demonstrate a looser, more spontaneous interpretation of the finished strips. Monte…
To the printer this month!
Long live COMICS! Update: Now available for pre-order!
Tonight, Tomorrow, Saturday!
In Portland, Vancouver & Seattle!
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #474
{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…
Buy Zak Sally’s John Denver
Or Tool, or Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Daily links: 4/1/09
• Review: The Barnes & Noble Review takes a long, loving look at Humbug: "…[Harvey] Kurtzman and his cronies served up some of the smartest satire of the time, much of it as fresh today as it was when first printed… beautifully restored… [a] wonderful production from Fantagraphics… Every page… attests to one thing: [Kurtzman's] all-American genius as writer, artist, and editor." Related: The New York Times "Paper Cuts" blog comments on the B&N review • Blurb: Earz Magazine has a short update on Esther Pearl Watson & Mark Todd, including a mench of Unlovable Vol. 1
Emerald City Weekend!
This weekend is the Emerald City Con, our hometown comics event of the year. We'll be exhibiting all weekend and showcasing a host of new spring books including Gilbert Hernandez's LUBA, Bob Fingerman's CONNECTIVE TISSUE, Miss Lasko-Gross's A MESS OF EVERYTHING, the great HUMBUG boxed set, Archie Goodwin's BLAZING COMBAT, Boody Rogers' BOODY, Paul Hornschemeier's MOTHER, COME HOME, and much, much more. We'll also be hosting signings, including: JAIME HERNANDEZ: all weekend! PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER: all day Saturday! DAME DARCY: Saturday from 1 to 3PM BILL SCHELLY (author of MAN OF ROCK, the excellent JOE KUBERT bio): Saturday from 11 to 2PM…
This looks like fun.
KGB ANNUAL EASTER GRAPHIC NOVEL READINGSunday April 12, 20097pm -9pmKGB Bar 85 E. 4th St between 2nd and 3rd Ave21+ This year, featuring the past and future graduates of New York'sSchool of Visual Arts. Reading: Dash Shaw ('05), acclaimed creator of Bottomless BellyButton, BodyWorld and contributor to MOME.http://www.dashshaw.com/ Leslie Stein ('03): creator of Baghead, Eye of the Majestic Creatureand Yeah, It Is.http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/handmade-portraits-leslie-stein-2906/ Ulises Farinas: ('06ish) Reading from his Act-I-Vate serial, MOTRO.http://www.activatecomix.com/45-1-1.comic Alabaster Pizzo ('10) reading a story about mice at an open mic event. and emceed by comedian Joe Boginski ('07). Hosted as always by Tom Hart who might or…
Touché, Boom!
This is a quick screenshot of part of a press release BOOM! comics sent out yesterday, which was forwarded to me by several people overnight: I'm not sure if this is crazy or genius or what, but I laughed.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #473
{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…
