{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…
Death Ray costume
Daniel Clowes fan Matt Taylor dressed up as the Death Ray from Eightball #23 for Halloween and documented the creation of the costume on his blog. Nicely done!
Interviewed: Nilsen, Covey, Hiemstra
Robin McConnell and the Inkstuds crew talk to Anders Nilsen about Big Questions and more. Van Jensen of CBR talks to Jacob Covey and Femke Hiemstra about BEASTS! 2.
Daily links: 11/13/08
• Vice approves of Popeye Vol. 3 (along with 8 other recent comics) • Comic Book Resources talks to Beasts! Book 2 curator Jacob Covey and contributing artist Femke Hiemstra (with previews from the book) • Tom Neely previews his Beasts! Book 2 contribution No updates tomorrow or Monday: I'm taking a long weekend (Felt Club ahoy) so I'll have a multi-day update for you next week.
Felt Club 2008
Coming in Fall 2009
PRISON PIT: The Graphic Novel by Johnny Ryan.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #360
{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…
World Peace Hulk
James Kochalka couldn't have done it better. Hard to believe this gentle soul would be waging war against the world a mere 28 years later. From Defenders #75 (1979) by Ed Hannigan, Herb Trimpe and Mike Esposito. That Greenpeace address is about a mere mile and a half from our office; I don't think it's still there. Oh, and NEVER accuse the Defenders of being intolerant.
Now available: The Tijuana Bibles series
Now available on Fantagraphics.com: the popular long-running series from Eros Comix, The Tijuana Bibles: America's Forgotten Comic Strips, including the brand-new Volume 9 (shown above) and past volumes #2 and 5-8! (Click here to browse the full list.) This series, edited by Michael Dowers, collects the hard-to-find comics booklets produced mainly in the 1930s that feature the most popular comic strip characters and media personalities of the day in sexually-explicit and outrageously satirical situations. These taboo-busting pamphlets were the original "underground" comix, and this reprint series is of interest to nostalgia buffs, connoisseurs of vintage erotica, and anyone else who…
Daily links: 11/12/08
• The Stranger has lunch with The Lagoon by Lilli Carré • On Blog Flume, Ken Parille offers critical counterpoint to some of Blake Bell's analysis of Steve Ditko's later work in Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko • Vitrola looks at Explainers by Jules Feiffer (in Portugese; Google translation here) • The San Antonio Current looks at Mome Vol. 12, Krazy & Ignatz 1943-1944, and Comic Arf • I Love Rob Liefeld reviews Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw • Your comics-icons-mashup street art of the day
