Eric has been scooping me on some stuff this week. I'm grateful for it because it makes my job a little easier; just make sure to look for his link posts if you haven't seen them already. This week's reviews & analysis: • The Honolulu Star-Bulletin looks at Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers • Read About Comics recommends the third issue of Baobab by Igort • The Boston Globe notes the New York Times' review of Jules Feiffer's Explainers and adds their two cents • Alex Siddons learns something from Alex by Mark Kalesniko… •…
Sala’s Scary Story
Ready for some Halloween chills? American Public Media's Weekend America radio program presents a selection of Tales of Terror this weekend, including the Richard Sala tale embedded above (click here if the player's not showing up).
Kevin Scalzo at SHQ
STARTS TONIGHT!: Kevin Scalzo Recent Paintings & Drawings October 24th – November 24th at Secret Headquarters (3817 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles) Opening Reception Friday, October 24th 8pm – 10pm. Go, look, perhaps buy, sleep well.
Read Justin Green’s intro to Jim Woodring’s Portable Frank
Thanks to Justin Green for granting us permission to run his introduction to Jim Woodring's The Portable Frank here on our website in its entirety. A great intro to a great book.
Webcomics update for 10/24/08
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: a very unpleasant surprise! This is also a great time to catch up on our current Monday-Friday chunk of our rolling 5-strip archive of Martin Kellerman's Rocky. As a reminder, registration is no longer required to read our webcomics; they're free for all!
This Sunday: Ghost World Release Party
UCB’s PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE HOSTS GHOST WORLD SCREENING AND BOOK RELEASE PARTY Join the Pacific Film Archive in celebrating the charmed works of two Bay Area originals: Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and cartoonist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2625 Durant Avenue #2250 • Berkeley, CA 94720 • (510) 642-1124 Clowes and Zwigoff will host a special screening of the Ghost World film, followed by a Q&A and book signing to celebrate the release of Ghost World: Special Edition. This deluxe new edition of the bestselling graphic novel expands…
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #345
{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…
The Portable Frank by Jim Woodring – Introduction: “So Says Justin Green”
{product_snapshot:id=1486,true,false,true,left} A TREE STUMP REVEALS the exact number of years it was alive by its woodrings. But when you look closely at a Jim Woodring cartoon, you are lost in the eternal present. In Frank, he has melded the Olden Days horrific with the modern innocuous. He consistently does this with a seamless line, tracing a parallel universe which keeps unfolding in new visual allegories, as perplexing as they are down-to-earth. Like a woodring, his pen line is always concrete and simple. It circumscribes objects and landscapes with a Spartan clarity that reveals a deep appreciation of the natural environment….
OMG… Humbug!
Presenting your first look at the final design (from one angle) of our eagerly-anticipated Humbug collection. Image (and post title) provided by book designer Adam Grano. Read more about the Humbug project right here. (Press: higher-res image available – contact Eric Reynolds.)
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