{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…
Signed bookplate update: Tim Lane
Mr. Tim Lane of St. Louis, MO has kindly supplied us with a batch of signed book plates for his debut book Abandoned Cars, and they are now newly available. A bookplate may be obtained exclusively from Fantagraphics when ordering the accompanying book, at no extra charge! Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!
Now in stock: Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes by Anders Nilsen
Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes By Anders Nilsen Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes takes up where the artist’s first volume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, left off. Like Coming Plague, Density of Black Holes is a creatively experimental laboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream-of-consciousness gags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly compelling and complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in Coming Plague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some of Nilsen's other outré strips from the anthology MOME, two of which are reprinted…
Daily links: 1/9/08
Getting quiet out there: • Review: Rob Clough on Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane • List: In The Cultural Gutter, Carol Borden lists Hall of Best Knowledge by Ray Fenwick as one of "10 Comics I Liked in 2008"
You’re welcome, Colleen
Colleen Coover indulges in a little "Fantastalgia" in this recently rediscovered panel. Read more about it and see a larger version on her new blog.
Webcomics update for 1/9/09
Time for the new installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. Steven sez: "Watch in this and next week's installments how a frightened Chubby starts to resemble an Ariel Bordeaux character." And don't forget to catch up on our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's hilarious Swedish smash-hit Rocky, updated Monday-Friday! This week, Rocky's misadventures abroad in New York City continue!
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #406
{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 Usual Gang of Idiots
I read that one of the crucial plot points of Marvel's big Secret Invasion crossover involved newly-elected President Obama bouncing Tony 'Iron Man' Stark from leading the Avengers and replacing him with mass-murdering psychopath Norman 'The Green Goblin' Osborn, creating some king of supervillain Illuminati and making Marvel the new Jack Chick. Shrewd move. And now "Obama" is making another crass Marvel appearance in some kind of Spider-Man variant collectible bullshit issue. I'm loathe to link about it, but this Wonkette quote was too rich to pass up: "Who is that mysterious black person in a business suit who looks absolutely nothing like Barack…
More Things to See (6 of 5): TMNTart
Okay, yeah, I GET why the TMNT have a bad name. I do. But not all fans are looking to depict Raphael nude with towel, or Leonardo "brandishing his Katana." I feel very sick about this.
Things to see (5 of 5): John Hankiewicz
…and to buy: John Hankiewicz is offering three small drawings for sale. Actually there will probably only be two left by the time you read this.
