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“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #453
{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…
Plugging our pals
Our esteemed colleagues over at the McSweeney's publishing house are having one of their occasional nanners sales. You can get that Charles Burns poster for half off, the new Spiegelman thing for almost half off, issue #13 of the Quarterly (the Ware-edited all-comics issue) is just $10, a bunch of other great stuff is $5 or even just a buck… just about everything is on sale and McSweeney's quality is, of course, unimpeachable. Ends in a couple of days.
Fantagraphics to Publish Jacques Tardi in 2009
This summer, Fantagraphics will launch an ongoing series of hardcover books presenting the works of the legendary French cartoonist Jacques Tardi. The first two releases will be West Coast Blues (Le petit bleu de la Côte Ouest), a hard-boiled crime thriller adapted by Tardi from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, and You Are There (Ici même), a satirical, surreal story written for Tardi by Barbarella creator Jean-Claude Forest that many consider one of the first true French graphic novels. Both will be released simultaneously in August, in what series editor Kim Thompson calls a "double-pronged shock-and-awe assault on the American…
Ellen Forney workshop at 826 Seattle TONITE
Last-minute notice! Better call that number shown above to make sure there's still space available. More about the program here.
Daily links: 3/10/09
• Review: In a blog post simply titled "Rave Review," Mark Evanier says of Humbug, "The material is excellent. It's Kurtzman, Elder, Davis, Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth and a few others working at the peak of their awesome powers. The package is excellent. It's well-designed and well-printed, and I can't think of a way in which it could have been improved. We've seen a lot of fancy comic book reprint projects lately but this may be my favorite. Buy it. Just buy it." • Review: Comics Worth Reading checks out Anywhere but Here by Tori Miki, concluding "Did I like…
Popeye Toking FAIL
Tardi Part II: Better Tardi Than Never
Pursuant to my jeremiad yesterday about the absence of any English language editions of Jacques Tardi's work, it gives me enormous pleasure — admit it, you saw this coming — to announce that… Well, let's go to the press release. "This summer, Fantagraphics will launch an ongoing series of hardcover books presenting the works of the legendary French cartoonist Jacques Tardi. "The first two releases will be West Coast Blues (Le petit bleu de la Côte Ouest), a hard-boiled crime thriller adapted by Tardi from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, and You Are There (Ici même), a satirical, surreal story…
The Lousy Tycoons
Jeremy Eaton and I have collaborated on the artwork for the debut release by North Dakota psychedelic duo, The Lousy Tycoons. Read more about this and other Eaton collaborations (with Al Columbia and bestselling novelist Chelsea Cain).
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #450
{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…
