A very special event for you lucky Northern Californians: An evening with Gene Deitch Thursday, November 20, 8 PMSan Francisco State University, Fine Arts Building's Coppola Theater (room 101), free, public invited Gene Deitch will be visiting from Prague as the San Francisco International Animation Festival has invited him to the States for this retrospective program. Gene says, “I will play a few films in two versions, with my original soundtrack and then substitute tracks imposed by the producers for weird and illogical reasons… As an example of what we who are paid to make films often have to put…
MoCCA’s Deitch-o-rama Thursday
MoCCA's Kim Deitch celebration includes an especially exciting event this Thursday night, Nov. 13: The Kim Deitch Q+A. In a room full of his original artwork, Kim will discuss his entire career to date and preview images from his current works in progress.
Daily links: 11/10/08
• The Comics Waiting Room Podcast talks about Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 (and a half-dozen other recent graphic novels) • Flickr user "tvsavior" posts this photo of Gilbert Hernandez giving a talk at the Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival on Saturday • Great Caesar's Post! recommends Popeye Vol. 3… • … and Pol Culture takes a thorough look at Popeye Vol. 2 • The Oregonian reports from the "Comics and Politics" panel that featured Spain Rodriguez, Patrick Rosenkranz, and Alison Bechdel at last weekend's Wordstock festival in Portland, OR • Look, a groovy mid-'90s Fantagraphics house ad from…
3D Comics Night
Wednesday November 19 at 7PM, the New York Stereoscopic Society presents 3D Comics Night, with projections of 3D work by Kim Deitch, Michael Kupperman, R. Sikoryak and others. That almost sounds too cool to be real! Click here for more info.
Drinky Crow Show Nov 23rd.
Maakies fans, let us unite to make Tony Millionaire rich! We all know that comics don't pay well but cartoons do: Tell everyone to watch the premiere of the official Drinky Crow Show series on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming. It debuts in just two weeks, so open a beer and hit those message boards! To make it easier for you, here are some ad banner thingies to post around. Tony will appreciate it, I assure you. By the way, I suspect that 12:15 am on Sunday actually means Saturday night. Sunday at 12:15 means Sunday night. Monday morning if…
Send good thoughts S. Clay Wilson’s way
S. Clay Wilson suffered a life-threatening injury over the weekend, and everyone at Fantagraphics is hoping and praying for the best. So should you.
Barack the Nerd
He collects Spider-Man and Conan comics. Huh.
Interviewed: Kerschbaum, Burns
CBR's Van Jensen talks to Petey & Pussy creator John Kerschbaum about, yup, you guessed it: PETEY & PUSSY! Meanwhile, part one of Brian Heater's interview with Charles Burns from The Daily Crosshatch.
Bill Griffith event images
A couple of things to watch out for in this set of photos and videos from Saturday night's Bill Griffith appearance and exhibit at our storefront: 1) the fan who gets her Zippy tattoo signed and hightails it out the door to the tattoo parlor down the street to have it inked in permanently; 2) our brand-new Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery canvas tote bags, available only at the store for the low price of $14.95. We love us a slideshow, and it's embedded above; click here if you can't see it and/or to view it in a new window, or…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #357
{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…
