{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.
Things to see (4 of 5): Tim Lane
Tim Lane presents a new page from a new story, "Hitchhiker." Read more about it on Tim's blog.
Things to see (3 of 5): Johnny Ryan
Johnny Ryan illustrates the cover of the Cinefamily January/Febuary program. See Johnny's blog for more info.
Things to see (2 of 5): Paul Hornschemeier
Paul Hornschemeier states: Starting [January 5], and for the next seventeen weeks, I'll be contributing a weekly strip in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.The strip is in their "Tragic Strip" slot of their political section, and has been previously occupied by a slew of artists, including one of my major idols and influences, Heinz Edelmann. My contribution will feature Huge Suit (who made an appearance in Fantagraphics' 2006 Free Comic Book Day issue and is inarguably one of my more Heinz Edelmann-influenced characters). The strips aren't apparently going to be available online, but a clip is above. More details…
Things to see (1 of 5): Anders Nilsen
New sketchbook pages from Anders Nilsen. Above: the devil.
Bennett’s Beat of the Traps
MOME contributor Jonathan Bennett has a fantastic, classic Sunday-style comic strip called "Beat of the Traps" in the new Kramers Ergot. John is a fantastic cartoonist whose work exhibits the craftsmanship of a master jeweler, but also has an existential soul a la Glenn Ganges or King Cat that its quotidian trappings often belie. He's really good. It turns out he also completed an additional page for Kramers of B&W dailies leading up to the Sunday payoff that the editor, Sammy Harkham, mercilessly rejected from the book. I like to picture Sammy laughing, with a cigar, as he gave Bennett the news. Anyway, luckily for us, Bennett has rescued the…
Obama the Magic Flute
We get a lot of random magazines in the office, and one is Adult Video News, a kind of Variety/Publishers Weekly for the sex industry. From today's front page: That's some choice copy, but they neglected to mention it could also double as a toy for H.R. Pufnstuff fetishists.
