Beasts! Book 1 (Softcover Edition) By various artists; curated by Jacob Covey After selling out two hardcover editions, Beasts! returns in a beautiful new softcover edition. Beasts! is a classic mythological menagerie, comprised only of creatures that were thought at one time to actually exist, depicted by about a hundred of the most acclaimed artists and cartoonists coming from the most avant-garde ambits of the art world. The Beasts project has fired the imaginations of luminaries such as Tony Millionaire, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Dave Cooper, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Jeremy Fish, James Jean, and Jay Ryan, who will present…
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“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #397
{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: Sala, Weissman
Thanks to Steven "Ribs" Weissman for supplying us with a batch of signed book plates for his book Mean, now available for the first time, and to Richard Sala, for replenishing our supply of signed bookplates for The Grave Robber's Daughter. As always, these are available exclusively from Fantagraphics when you order their accompanying books, at no extra charge! Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!
Mark Todd art show in L.A.
Mark Toddfragmentsnew worksLa Luz De Jesus GalleryLos Angeles, CAJanuary 2nd – February 1st, 2009artist reception Jan. 2nd 8-11 PMwww.laluzdejesus.comwww.marktoddillustration.com Official announcement: In this new exhibition Mark Todd shows an ever deepening interest in deconstructing comic art from his childhood. "The main difference between 'Fragments' and my last showing at La Luz de Jesus is that the works seem to be getting more abstracted and there is more collage elements working into the pieces on paper," states Todd who took his first creative cues from comic books and Star Wars. In this collection of works it is apparent that these two…
Daily links: 12/29/08
• Entertainment Weekly ranks Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw #5 on their "Best Fiction of 2008" list • The Oklahoman's Nerdage blog names Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw and The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez two of the top ten of "2008's best graphic novels" • comiXology's "Top Ten Comics of 2008" includes Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman (#8), Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw (#3) and Ganges #2 by Kevin Huizenga (#1) • Newsarama's "Top 5: Best Archival Comics, 2008" includes Jules Feiffer's Explainers (#3) and E.C. Segar's Popeye Vol. 3: "Let's…
Our staff poet
As part of a series highlighting Seattle poets, The Stranger features the work of Nico Vassilakis, who daylights as Fantagraphics' warehouse manager. (Above, Nico's most recent book, Text Loses Time.)
Frank pinball machine??
More on this story as it develops.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #396
{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…
Gary Panter video interview
Above, part 1 of a 4-part VBS.TV interview with Gary Panter (wherein he discusses, among other things, the status of our long-delayed collection of his Dal Tokyo strips). Link to part 2, part 3 and part 4, plus a bonus clip.
