Barack Obama, cartoonist.
New Comics Day 11/12/08
You may experience a sense of déja vu, or perhaps more appropriately déja ne vu pas, at your local comic shops this week, as once again no new Fantagraphics releases are scheduled to arrive. What does next week hold? Stay tuned to Flog to find out.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #359
{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…
Question of the Day
Is it just me or is the Bat-Manga "controversy" the biggest comics non-issue since "is Kramer's Ergot 7 too expensive"?
Daily links: 11/11/08
Everybody else has the day off, I guess: • Anthem looks at John Pham's Sublife Vol. 1 • Keep a hanky close by for the final installment of Steve Brodner's "Naked Campaign" videos for the New Yorker
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #358
{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…
A Word on the Economy
HUMBUG is coming in early 2009.
The Drinky Crow Show
Jacob beat me to the punch on the scoop, but here's the full skinny on what might make me break down and get expanded cable again. I just got a sneak peek at the season premiere and it's every bit as hilarious as the pilot, but yet seemed even more visually refined. It also has an extended cameo by the Flight of the Conchords dudes, Bret and Jemaine. Lay-deeeez and gentlemen… The Drinky Crow Show Premieres on Adult Swim in NovemberAnimated Series Based on Tony Millionaire's Award-Winning Comic Strip Maakies Based on Tony Millionaire's award-wining comic-strip Maakies, The Drinky Crow Show is a new original…
Let the Campaigning Begin!
David B. & Igort Beguile Toronto!
The Beguiling presents… AN EVENING WITH DAVID B. & IGORT The internationally acclaimed graphic novelists. Saturday November 15th, 7PM-9PM (doors at 6:30)At Rocco’s Plum Tomato, Plum Room585 Bloor Street West, at Markham Street FREE TO ATTEND Presented in association with The Italian Cultural Institute,The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States,and the French Consulate of Toronto. TORONTO, Ontario – The Beguiling is proud to present an exclusive engagement with two of the most acclaimed graphic novelists in the world, right here in Toronto! David B., author of the award-winning graphic memoir Epileptic, and Igort, author of the new series Baobab…
