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…
C. Tyler helps veterans with comics
Click here to read the University of Cincinnati's spotlight on faculty member C. Tyler and her development of an innovative program that helps combat veterans and their families to tell their stories using the medium of comics, with the help of Tyler and her students. The program was inspired by Tyler's latest work, the 3-part graphic memoir You'll Never Know, wherein Tyler recounts her father's WWII combat experiences and the impact the war had on him and his family. You'll Never Know Book 1: A Good and Decent Man is due from Fantagraphics Books later this Spring.
HUMBUG 3/7/09 part three
We hope you've enjoyed our continuing photographic preview of but a smidgen of the art & artifacts to be on display at the Fantagraphics Bookstore Saturday March 7th 2009 to commemorate the release of HUMBUG .
Ivan Brunetti Interview
Bookslut talks to our very own Ivan Brunetti about his Yale anthologies of comics. Choice quote from Ivan: "Why dwell on the negative, I always say."
Al Jaffee interview
Al Jaffee talks MAD in this first of a three part interview with Daily Crosshatch, with HUMBUG talk to come…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #445
{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…
Jim Flora’s White Block Quadrupeds
"White Block Quadrupeds" is the latest limited-edition fine art print from Jim Flora Art, based on a Flora painting from the early 1940s. More info here.
