{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…
Now in stock: The Comics Journal #295 (Brian K. Vaughn, Gipi, etc.)
The Comics Journal #295 Edited by Mike Dean & Kristy Valenti; Gary Groth, executive editor The Comics Journal #295 is chock full of all the comicky goodness that you’ve come to expect from our fine publication! Check it out: Sean T. Collins interviews writer Brian K. Vaughan about Y the Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, how a career in comics led him to writing for the hit television series Lost, and much, much more. Paul Karasik presents a conversation with Italian cartoonist Gipi, who talks about Garage Band, Notes for a War Story, the Ignatz books and…
Daily links: 1/12/09
• Review: Panel Patter explores House by Josh Simmons • Review: The Daily Cross Hatch guarantees that Ted Stearn's Fuzz & Pluck will make you laugh • List: Largehearted Boy names his "Favorite Graphic Novels of 2008," including Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw • List: At RevolutionSF, Rick Klaw names "What Is Best in 2008," including The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott (reproduced from his top comics list on his "Nexus Graphica" column) • List: Zack Soto names his personal "best of/favorite" comics of 2008, including Perla La Loca by Jaime Hernandez, Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by…
The Italian Constitution, illustrated
14 Italian artists, including Ignatz creators Marco Corona (above), Gabriella Giandelli, Lorenzo Mattotti and Sergio Ponchione, illustrate the articles of the Italian Constitutional Charter for an exhibit opening in Bologna tomorrow, January 13. Marco Corona's blog has details in Italian; here's the Google translation.
2008 Critics’ Picks: 20% Off for 2 Weeks Only!
Last week we posted our monster tally of critics' Fantagraphics picks for the best comics of 2008. To celebrate the fact that over two thirds of our 2008 releases were chosen as the best of the year by various commentators, all of these titles are now 20% OFF for two weeks only, through 11:59 PM Pacific time, Jan. 26, 2009! Click here to browse the selection of titles. If you're missing anything we put out last year, this is a great chance to catch up!
Preview video/slideshow: Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson
Scheduled to arrive around the end of this month, Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable is a glitter-encrusted, hot pink hunk of high school humiliation, heartbreak, halitosis, hairspray and hilarity from the pages of Bust magazine. Click this link if the embedded slideshow doesn't appear above, and/or to open it in a new window.
Penelope!
You should all head over to Rob Clough's HIGH-LOW site right now, read his Top 50 for 2008, and then thank him for getting it done when he did, because late last week he and his wife welcomed baby daughter Penelope into the world, and I guarantee you that if he hadn't finished that Top 50 before she was born, you would never have gotten the chance to read it. Which is my way of saying congratulations to Rob and Laura, who are about as kind as anyone you'll meet and will no doubt make fantastic parents.
Now available from Johnny Ryan
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Obama’s First 100 Days…
Courtesy Drew Friedman and MAD Magazine…
Don’t Let the Door Hit You…
Vanity Fair.com has a nice gallery of George Dubya caricatures up, featuring Ed Sorel, Drew Friedman, Gerald Scarfe (pictured), and others.
