Look at this! LOOK AT IT! Closer! CLOSER! (Click on the image above. Seriously. Click it for the detail.) How did he do this!?! It's not scratchboard and it's not ink. Even resident alchemist Ted Jouflas doesn't know how Arnold Roth drew (?) this savage portrait of Mike Wallace from HUMBUG #5. Look at it! Or don't look at it on the stupid computer. See the real thing this Saturday March 7th at the Fantagraphics Bookstore in gorgeous Georgetown Washington and help us celebrate the release of HUMBUG our latest pièce de résistance!
The Politics of Stupid, indeed!
Back in those heady 1990s, the guys at our warehouse seemingly had a lot of time on their hands. To wit: these tapes, which have been semi-legendary in inner-Fanta circles for years. Former warehouse staffer Dave Holmes — also the front man in the legendary Seattle band The Fall-Outs — routinely entertained his fellow warehouse coworkers with prank phone calls to local radio talk show host Susan Powter. Somehow, Susan never seemed to catch on to the joke. Dave always used the names of his fellow coworkers for the calls, and even adopts a fairly impressive Australian accent when he calls in as "Martin"…
Just how bad is the economy?
Even Matt Groening can get fired. Stupid, stupid L.A. Weekly. He's your Feiffer.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #446
{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…
The Beer Queers
There was a reason for this polaroid caption (I mean, besides the obvious, anyway), but I no longer remember it. Johnny Ryan and Peter Bagge, circa 2001.
Daily links: 3/3/09
• Review: Winsome Icarus (Katherine M. Hill) writes an appreciation of "The Ladies of Love and Rockets" • List: The A.V. Club would like to see Daniel Clowes's Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (and Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, and Burns's Black Hole, and 21 other comics) adapted into a movie • Blurb: Jog previews Sam's Strip: The Comic About Comics by Mort Walker & Jerry Dumas (amongst other of this week's releases) • Events: Comic Book Resources reports from the "25 Years of Usagi Yojimbo" panel at Wondercon • Things to see: In honor of the impending release of…
Gahan for the Day 2
Dumb Production Humor
We print a lot of our books with Print Vision, based out of Portland. They do good work and roll with the comics jokes. Try em.
Dash Shaw Future Mome Teaser
On his blog, Dash Shaw presents a 2-page spread from a short story he just finished for an upcoming volume of Mome.
New Comics Day 3/4/09
Fantagraphics titles scheduled to arrive at comics shops this week: • Explainers (2nd Printing) by Jules Feiffer (good timing, too, since we just temporarily ran out of our mail-order allotment)• Sam's Strip: The Comic About Comics by Mort Walker & Jerry Dumas Check out our descriptions and previews at the links above, give your local shop a jingle to make sure they ordered the books, count up your nickels and then trundle on down there tomorrow. UPDATE: At least 2 sources are saying that Humbug is shipping this week too, although it's not on the official distributor list. We'll definitely…
