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!
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #436
{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 – “How Sam’s Strip Began” by Jerry Dumas
{product_snapshot:id=1551,true,false,true,right} All through the late 1950s, Mort Walker and I worked together three or four days a week, however long it took, doing the artwork for the daily and Sunday Beetle Bailey strips. The rest of the time I worked in my own home, writing gag ideas for both Beetle and Hi and Lois. At that time and on into the 1960s, we were the only writers for both strips. Each week we wrote ten gags apiece and on Monday mornings we showed each other our gags, graded them and discussed them. We never did rough sketches of ideas unless…
Sam’s Strip – “My Time with Sam’s Strip” by Mort Walker
{product_snapshot:id=1551,true,false,true,right} There were problems in doing Sam’s Strip. It was a satirical strip using characters from contemporary strips as well as old-time comic characters. Satire requires that readers have previous knowledge of the subject matter to understand what’s going on. With Sam’s Strip, the readers had to be familiar with the various characters we were satirizing before they could get the gag. It’s a tough sell. In show business the saying goes, “Satire dies on Saturday night.” {mosimage} An insurance salesman once asked me what I did for a living. I showed him the comic page for that day and…
New Comics Day 2/18/09
We don't have any new titles scheduled to ship to comic shops this week, but we do have a reoffer of Nate Neal's The Sanctuary #1-3, so pester your local shop for this inventive Stone Age-set series.
Now in stock: Humbug by Harvey Kurtzman et al.
Humbug By Harvey Kurtzman et al. Harvey Kurtzman changed the face of American humor when he created the legendary MAD comic. As editor and chief writer from its inception in 1952, through its transformation into a slick magazine, and until he left MAD in 1956, he influenced an entire generation of cartoonists, comedians, and filmmakers. In 1962, he co-created the long-running Little Annie Fanny with his long-time artistic partner Will Elder for Playboy, which he continued to produce until his virtual retirement in 1988. Between MAD and Annie Fanny, Kurtzman’s biographical summaries will note that he created and edited three…
Now in stock: The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 (Vol. 11) by Charles M. Schulz
The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 (Vol. 11) By Charles M. Schulz Peanuts surges into the 1970s with Schulz at the peak of his powers and influence: a few jokes about Bob Dylan, Women’s Liberation and “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex” (!) aside, these two years are as timeless as Peanuts ever was. Sally Brown — school phobia, malapropisms, unrequited love for Linus and all — elbows her way to center stage, at least among the humans, and is thus the logical choice for cover girl… and in her honor, the introduction is provided by none other than…
Here Comes Madness
Michael Kupperman's blog is in full swing, with teasers from upcoming Tales Designed to Thrizzle publications like issue #5 and the full-color hardcover collection of #1-4, plus early classix and other hilarity (and a harrowing real-life hospital tale).
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #435
{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…
