The Internet weighs in on our books this week: • The Times names Daddy's Girl by Debbie Drechsler and Funeral of the Heart by Leah Hayes two of "the summer's best graphic novels" • NPR.org reviews and excerpts Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw; Sean T. Collins calls BBB "a deeply pleasurable, and rewarding, read" • Sean T. Collins also digs into Mome Vol. 12 • Chris Allen reviews Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell • Jeff Lester thinks Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 is so nice, he reviews it twice: once for The…
Arp art at SHQ
Mome contributor Andrice Arp has an art show opening at Secret Headquarters in L.A. on Friday Sept. 19. More info here.
That Girl Eats Too Much
Jeremy Eaton is selling two dozen gouache drawings (including those seen above) in a one-night only studio show/sale, Sept. 13, 6-9 p.m. The same work will be available online at the same time (go to Comic Book Collective), but those in attendance at the opening get a special "locals only" price. His studio is at 521 NW 43rd St., Seattle, WA 98107 (north side storefront of the big blue building at the junction of 6th Ave. NW & 43rd, just across from Hale's Brewery, on Leary Ave.). Seattlites best know Eaton as the illustrator of The Stranger's I Love Television column, as…
Rebel Visions Sept. 17th in Philly
Patrick Rosenkranz, comix historian and the author of the comprehensive tome Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975, will give a lecture about R. Crumb's work and the trangressive movement that it helped define, at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia next Wednesday, Sept. 17. The lecture is in conjunction with "R. Crumb's Underground," which opened last Friday and continues through Dec. 7 at the Institute of Contemporary Art (118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia) after previous stints in Seattle and California. Rosenkranz will also appear at Robin's Bookstore in Center City at noon on Sept. 17th.
This book…
… is gonna knock baseball fans' socks off. Some of the most crackling baseball action in comics I've ever seen (and there's more than you'd think).
Dash Shaw on Inkstuds.
You know the show, you know Dash. Listen, already! (Image from Bodyworld.)
Just Overheard in the Office
Eric Reynolds: I wouldn't want to be attacked by a werewolf.
Fresh stock: Kafka by Crumb & Mairowitz
We've got a new printing of this perennial favorite book in stock now. Read more info and order here; click here for a preview look.
Rory Hayes discussed.
Dan Nadel talks to Van Jensen about the work of Rory Hayes.
Humbug update
Prompted by a recent customer query, here's a quick status update on our Humbug collection: it's still a bit delayed due to our painstaking production process, and is now looking like a late December/early January release. I've eavesdropped on many production discussions and I can tell you that there is incredible attention to detail going into this project. (If you missed it earlier, you can get a glimpse at the process right here.) It will absolutely be worth the wait!
