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“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #385
{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…
Friday night video: Dave Cooper animated
…by animator Nick Cross in this music video (I forget where I first spotted this): Danko Jones – King Of Magazines from Bad Taste Records on Vimeo.
Beasts! show preview
Speaking of the Beasts! print show opening tomorrow, Jacob Covey has been previewing some of the prints that will be on display and for sale there on the Beasts! blog (including Tom Neely's "Skinwalker," above). This show is going to be incredible.
Art sale-a-rama
While we wouldn't complain if you blew your entire art budget at our Beasts! print show, here are some other worthy things to spend your money on: • If you would like to buy some original pages from House, or perhaps some X-rated ABBA fan art, or commission a portrait of your kittycat, Josh Simmons has your hookup (hat tip: Spurge) • Maybe you'd like to buy a limited-edition print based on Jaime Hernandez's cover art for the Criterion DVD of Divorce Italian Style? (Detail above — via Spurge again) • Lots of good stuff at the WFMU Benefit…
Daily links: 12/12/08
Regular edition! • The Washington Post names Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw one of the 6 "Best Comics of 2008" • The Wall Street Journal profiles David B. • Our own Kim Thompson provides some Eurocomics commentary in a letter to The Comics Reporter • Look for Paul Hornschemeier's "Bearsly Windinski" in the next issue of Time Out Chicago, and the German edition of The Three Paradoxes not quite as soon
Daily Links Audio Extra
A couple of interviews for your Friday listening pleasure: • Inkstuds has an audio chat with Ivan Brunetti • On his Mr. Media internet radio program, Bob Andelman talks to Joe Kubert biographer (Man of Rock) Bill Schelly
Webcomics update for 12/12/08
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. In this week's episode: Dear Diary… 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!
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #384
{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…
R.I.P. Bettie Page
First Dave Stevens, then Forrest J. Ackerman, and now Bettie Page. 2008 has been a brutal year for some of the icons of my Southern California adolescence.
