{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…
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“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #437
{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…
Sam’s Strip: Read the Authors’ Introductions
Our collection of Sam's Strip contains two introductory essays by the strip's creators, which we've placed online for you to read and enjoy while you're waiting for the book to be released (any day now): "How Sam's Strip Began" by Jerry Dumas and "My Time with Sam's Strip" by Mort Walker. Together they comprise a Rashomon-like tale of the strip's run.
Humbug signature plate – first look
The tri-fold signature plate shown above (front and back — click here and here for better views) that comes with Humbug: Limited Signed Edition is currently winging its way between Jack Davis, Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth as they apply their signatures to it. (While they're hard at work, you can reserve your copy today.)
SLIDE SHOW part three
An American in Paris! Can I buy you a fancy lunch? Snails? How do you work this thing!?! Oh boy… that's right! Even though I was upright my fingers were fast asleep. Wish I could tell you these were the only misfires on my camera… These photos are from my second day in Paris. I woke up at 7am (10pm Seattle time) and enjoyed the complimentary breakfast of a large roll, croissant, cereal and… another croissant. For the record, every morning I consumed AT LEAST 3 to 4 members of the bread family. My plan for the day was to…
Daily links: 2/18/09
I didn't find any links yesterday, so there was no update (in case you were wondering). Today, however: • Review: Beyond Race Magazine says that Deitch's Pictorama by the brothers Deitch is "entertaining, as well as a unique way to read comics" • Review: Sean T. Collins presents his review of Mome Vol. 4 that originally ran in The Comics Journal in 2006 • Review: The Groovy Age of Horror examines the psychology of Fletcher Hanks and I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! (link via Sean T. Collins) • Blurb: Thanks to Mike Lynch for hyping Humbug • Things…
He draws good, too
On the Covered blog, our own Eric Reynolds takes on Moon Knight vintage 1982.
Inkstuds
Go here for a fantastic set of interviews with Sammy Harkham, Rick Altergott, Daniel Clowes and Jaime Hernandez about the new Kramers Giant-Sized Annual #1.
Good Times
Emailed to me this morning by my dear ol' pal, Tony Millionaire: "I'll be coming to Seattle in May, we should have a good time. I'm going to punch your baby in the face, teach her a lesson about hard reality." Looking forward to it, man!
