{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…
Quote of the Day
"I encountered him one afternoon, sitting on the living room couch of my parent's home, the Sunday paper sprawled across his lap. Open before him was the color comics section, specifically the fan art portion of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature. He was regarding it like some unrecognizable weed taken root in his vegetable patch."
New Peter Kuper comic
Thanks to Peter Kuper for providing us with his recent award-winning 2-page strip "Ceci n'est pas une comic" (originally published in the Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere around the world) to post in our Online Comics section. The last 8 years certainly did seem surreal, didn't they? Click here to read.
“Ceci n’est pas une comic” by Peter Kuper
This comic originally ran in the Virginia Quarterly Review and various magazines and newspapers throughout Europe and Latin America, was awarded a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators in the sequential arts category, and was selected to appear in Best American Comics 2010. Our thanks to Peter Kuper (www.peterkuper.com) for providing it to us to post here. {mosimage} {mosimage} You may also be interested in: {product_snapshot:id=1330,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=560,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=179,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=700,true,false,true,left} All books featuring Peter Kuper
Daily links: 2/3/09
• List: Another day, another Top 10 list with Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button on it, this time Laura Hudson's "Best Graphic Novels of 2008" • Blurb: Trendhunter™ fingers The Wolverton Bible as the next hot thing • Blurb: ComicNews spotlights our collection of Sam's Strip by Mort Walker & Jerry Dumas
Parille’s Peanuts
I could read a whole book of Ken Parille's essays on Peanuts.
Preview video/slideshow: The Comics Journal #296
The upcoming February 2009 issue of The Comics Journal is our annual Best of the Year issue, featuring interviews with the year's most acclaimed cartoonists: Lynda Barry, Frank Quitely, Dash Shaw and Mike Luckovich. Plus best-of lists from dozens of comics pros, a preview of C. Tyler's new book, a gallery of new Finnish comics, and lots more. Click here if the embedded slideshow doesn't appear above, or to open a larger version in a new window.
Yes, we have no NYCC
A lot of folks keep asking me if we'll have a presence at the New York Comic-Con this weekend. We won't. It's a ridiculously expensive show to exhibit at and travel to, even in the best economy. It's a lousy time of year to travel cross-country, weather-wise. So we're staying home and throwing a great party for Esther Pearl Watson this weekend instead. But if you are at NYCC, we've designated Paul Karasik our official representative and you should go say hi to him: Sunday, 1:30pm, Panel Room 6 (1A18):Comics and the Language of Visual SymbolismComics are able to communicate dense layers of narrative,…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #424
{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…
Preview video/slideshow: The Wolverton Bible
Sweet merciful Jebus do we have an ever-lovin' load of books coming out in the next couple of months — about a dozen of 'em, if all goes according to plan. The advance copies have been pouring into our office and we've got lots of preview photos and videos to share with you. We'll present one book a day here on Flog but if you're impatient you can head over to our Flickr page and gorge yourself on the first 5 sets right now, with many more to come shortly. Today we're presenting The Wolverton Bible, which features hundreds of…
