{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…
New Comics Day 11/26/08
We're unleashing a torrent of raunchy comic strips and erudite comics scholarship on comic shops across the U.S. this week, with the following titles scheduled to arrive: • Comics Are for Idiots!: Blecky Yuckerella Vol. 3 by Johnny Ryan• Rocky Vol. 2: Strictly Business by Martin Kellerman• The Tijuana Bibles Vol. 9 • The Comics Journal #294 As always, we've got more information and previews at the links above for your perusal. (And if I might be allowed a non-Fantagraphics recommendation this week: Kevin Huizenga's Fight or Run #1 from Picturebox CORRECTION Buenaventura [dammit, sorry Alvin]. If you liked the…
Daily links: 11/25/08
• Mark Evanier calls Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert by Bill Schelly "one of the best books of its kind" • Inkstuds puts the microphone to John Pham • Mishka blurbs Beasts! Book 2, calling it "A great gift for yourself or somebody else just as weird" • A new Jimbo minicomic by Gary Panter? Yes • du9 interviews Tori Miki (en Français; Google translation – via the Icarus blog) • 2theadvocate.com reports on David B.'s recent visit to Louisiana (via The Beat)
The Land that Time Forgot
When I was a kid, I had a recurring dream about hanging out at Popeye and Olive Oyl's house. I really liked Popeye, and had a bit of a crush on Olive. Little did I know, I could have tried to convince my parents to actually take me to Popeye's house… in Malta! I am so taking my li'l swee'pea here one day.
Coming in April
Lilli Carre’s “The Carnival” in MOME 14
We just wrapped up the next MOME (Vol. 14), out next spring. This issue features quite a doozy: Lilli Carré's "The Carnival," a 32-page full-color graphic novella (featured on the cover above). It's an elegant follow-up to her new graphic novel, The Lagoon, and between both stories it's clear that Carré is a major talent to watch. In the meantime, look for MOME Vol. 13 to hit stores next month.
Wish You Were Here
Check it out: Ray Fenwick postcard set forthcoming from Chronicle Books.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #370
{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…
Preview video/slideshow: Beasts! Books 1 & 2
Double whammy! Presenting your first looks at the all-new Beasts! Book 2 and the new softcover edition of Beasts! Book 1 in their physical manifestations. Boy, is there ever anticipation for these books. If the embedded slideshows don't appear above, and/or to open them in a new window (recommended for more detail), click here for Book 1 and here for Book 2.
Boody.
Cover design by Jacob Covey. Lettering by Eric Reynolds. Coming next year.
