John Kerschbaum gets the Sunday interview treatment at the Comics Reporter this weekend, about Petey & Pussy. Go read!
Booklist Top 10
Booklist has announced their list of "Top 10 Graphic Novels: 2009." We're pleased and honored to have two of our finest, tannest books on it:
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #444
{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…
Cartoonists with Guns
First in a recurring Flog! feature: ROBERT WILLIAMS SUZANNE WILLIAMS AL COLUMBIA (with GARY GROTH) DAVID COLLIER
C. Tyler Interviewed About New Book
Carol Tyler is interviewed at newsarama about her forthcoming graphic memoir, YOU'LL NEVER KNOW, which is certain to be one of the most talked-about graphic novels of 2009. I know Mike already linked to this but it wasn't working earlier and Tyler's awesome enough that it should be called out.
Tim Hensley & Wally Gropius
I'm putting together the 15th issue of MOME (Summer 2009) right now and it features the final three chapters of Tim Hensley's spectacular "Wally Gropius, Teen Millionaire" which has appeared in MOME since our fifth issue (Fall 2006). I can't even tell you how proud I am to have published this comic. Hensley is such a singular talent. He's so good I'm almost at a loss to explain why. There's something transcendent about it. It looks like old 1950s teenage humor comics, specifically Mort Walker's proto-Beetle Bailey strip, Spider, as Adam Grano recently pointed out to me while laying out the upcoming Walker interview in The…
I’m so glad I’m not in on Fridays.
An email sent officewide today from our warehouse manager, Nico Vassilakis:
I. Brunetti: New Yorker, HO!
The new issue of the The New Yorker is out, and sports a beautiful cover by Ivan Brunetti: And if that looks attractive to you, don't miss Ivan's new book, HO!, which you can preorder now and hits stores in a few weeks.
Drinky Crow’s Maakies Treasury: Previews, Pre-Order
Now available for preview and pre-order: Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury, the latest compilation of Maakies strips by Tony Millionaire. This volume, designed as a sequel to Premillennial Maakies (and to introduce fans of TV's The Drinky Crow Show to the source material), collects the second 5 years of the strip (previously reprinted in the volumes When We Were Very Maakies, The House at Maakies Corner and Der Struwwelmaakies) in a single thick volume splendidly designed by Chip Kidd. This book is scheduled to be in stock in early March and in stores approximately 4 weeks later. View a photo &…
Webcomics update for 2/27/09
Friday is new webcomics day! First up, such language in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan! Chubby's plan turns out to be surprisingly sensible in this week's installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. (Have you been counting how many pages we've posted?) The time-honored rituals of Rocky and his pals pervade our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's hilarious Swedish smash-hit Rocky, updated Monday-Friday!
