Basil Wolverton's son, Monte, will share stories of his father's art and religious beliefs with Mr. Media live this Friday, and Monte will talk calls from listeners, so this is your chance, Wolvertooners. Go here for details.
Tom K’s MOME exhibit pics
I'll have a post later this week about this weekend's fantastic MOME show at MCAD in Minneapolis, but in the meantime, here's Tom K's pics from the totally awesome opening.
Citta of Glass
Each year the Dedica Festival in northern Italy celebrates a single writer. Last year they invited Nadine Gordimer and this year they will raise a glass or two of Chianti to Paul Auster. The graphic novel version of Auster's "City of Glass" has sold out of three separate editions in Italy so the organizers of the event have also invited Paul Karasik to Dedica at the end of March. For the first time Karasik's original panel-by-panel breakdowns of City of Glass will be exhibited and a limited edition of facsimile copies will be sold. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear Auster…
Kerschbaum interviewed
John Kerschbaum is the latest to appear on our favorite comics radio show/podcast, Inkstuds.
Run D(ash)M(iles)C(ho)
An unlikely Dash Shaw-Jason Miles-Frank Cho mash-up. And even more weirdly, an effective one. See more at Miles Manor online.
Ooh La La
Best Pisses
Daily links: 3/9/09
• Review: Comic Book Resources gives 4 stars to Boody. The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers, saying it "features some of the nuttiest comics you'll ever read… Boody Rogers presents an off-kilter world of hilarity that seems like an oft-unheralded link between the Golden Age of the newspaper strips and the underground cartoonists of the 1960s." • Review: In the weekly Robot 6 "What Are You Reading?" roundup, Chris Mautner says of Humbug, "It’s a really impressive collection of work… and the production design here is nothing short of stunning. Fantagraphics really knocked this one out of the park in…
Holy shit, Friedman, that’s fantastic!
Drew Friedman captures a watershed moment in comics history. Get the whole story on this piece on Drew's Drawger blog. Damn, I need to subscribe to that.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #449
{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…
