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…
New York Bob
Graphic NYC catches up with Bob Fingerman about his forthcoming book, Connective Tissue, and more.
New Clearance & Closeout Sale Items!
We've just added 50 more items to our Clearance Sale and Closeout Deals categories, with savings of one-third to half off! We've got Bagge classics, Clowes novelties, pin-up books, great but obscure graphic novels, and much more at slashed prices. And we'll be adding still more in the coming weeks and months. Go! Browse! Buy!
New from Johnny Ryan
It's the latest limited-edition self-published comic from Johnny Ryan: New Character Parade #2. I can't wait to see the "Tron of Finland" strip. Find out more and order it direct from Johnny.
Daily links: 2/16/09
• Review: The North Adams Transcript likes Beasts! Book 2 even more than Book 1 • Review: Rob Clough says Petey & Pussy by John Kerschbaum is the best humor-related publication of the year • List: At Funnybook Babylon, "25 Things Pedro Loves about Comics" leads off with Steven Weissman 's Li'l Bloody • Profile: 1979 Semi-Finalist names Eleanor Davis "Artist of the Week" • Blurb: Richard Cowdry's been getting into Dash Shaw's Mome stories • Blurb: The Scandy Factory previews our upcoming release of VHS box art, Portable Grindhouse • Things to see: Ben Catmull has started a blog •…
The Wolverton Bible: Read the Foreword & Introduction
We're pleased to present Grant Geissman's Foreword and Monte Wolverton's Introduction to The Wolverton Bible by Basil Wolverton for your reading enjoyment here on our website. These two pieces both provide valuable biographical context as well as background information on the creation of Wolverton's Bible stories. We hope they entice you to check out the book, which is due imminently.
SLIDE SHOW part two
So where was I… Coming up on 40 hours without sleep and hoofing it from the 11 arrondissement to the 5th. I'm on my way to the legendary Un Regard Moderne when I spot this little gem: What if Dan Clowes was born French? We would all be referring to Ghost World as Shake Hair. By the way, Dan tells me Doofus (as played by Jack Black) makes a bicycle-seat-sniffin' cameo in Ghost World II: The Bob Skeetes Story!) Moving right along… Rounding the corner I loaf down the typical, rain washed, beautiful, Parisian alley/street and there IT is, out…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #434
{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 Wolverton Bible – Foreword: “A Shot in the Liver, A Shot to the Soul” by Grant Geissman
{mosimage}{product_snapshot:id=1552,true,false,true,right} here are legions of fans of the work of Basil Wolverton, stretching across many generations. There are admirers of his earliest work in the comic books, including “Spacehawk” (which began to appear in 1940 in Target Comics) and “Powerhouse Pepper,” the wacky, off-the-wall humor feature Wolverton created in 1942 for Stan Lee’s Timely Comics. {mosimage} There are fans of “Lena the Hyena, the ugliest woman in Lower Slobovia,” the crazily hideous image that was Wolverton’s winning entry in the 1946 contest United Features sponsored on behalf of Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner” strip. There are enthusiasts of Wolverton’s numerous 1940s…
