Krazy and Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips 1935-1944 By George Herriman Our second limited-edition deluxe Krazy hardcover (it's Volume 3, but the second to be published; Volume 1 is still forthcoming) collects the second batch of five Krazy & Ignatz softcover books we have published, comprehensively compiling the years 1935 through 1944, under hard covers. It's not a slipcase, it's a single hardcover book. The covers to the original five softcover books are NOT included, but literally everything else is. And yes, we are similarly collecting the years 1916-1924 as those softcover volumes are completed. (Since we get asked this…
Vice & Vermilyea
Maybe you bought Mome #12 and now you're craving more fun with food from Jon Vermilyea. If so, Vice has a strip for you.
Forney covers The Stranger
What makes this extra-great is that it's totally hand-lettered rather than typeset as usual. I've always dug Ellen's lettering.
Georgetown Art Attack Is Back!
The public of all ages is once again invited to enjoy the unique pleasures of Seattle’s most colorful arts community during the Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack on September 13. This lively celebration of Georgetown’s creative diversity involves up to 30 enterprises programming provocative visual and performing arts, dining, shopping and spontaneous entertainment. Highlights of the Art Attack offensive on Saturday, September 13 include:“Phono Graphics,” an exquisite exhibition by Seattle DJ and visual artist David Rauschenberg at Georgetown Tile Works. Rauschenberg combines his passion for art and music with portraits of musical legends etched on black vinyl and mounted on…
R.I.P. Bill Melendez
1916-2008.
Enid’s Soul Mate.
Someone pointed out the Clowesian character in the bottom left of the new Abel/Madden drawing book and I knew the image was familiar so I did some digging around. Sure enough it's white girl Enid as black man Ed.
FriendFeedFlog
A site visitor tipped us off to FriendFeed, a social networking aggregator site, and we decided to give it a try. If you're hip to their thing, you can subscribe to us and follow our Flog, Flickr, GoodReads, Twitter and YouTube activity all in one place. (You can also follow the feed via RSS.) You might also notice the FriendFeed widget in the right column on Flog, which is currently there on an experimental trial basis. We'll see how it goes!
Hidden Treasures, or: Boody.
We're begining production on a collection of Boody Rogers comics, edited by Arf's Craig Yoe (who I recently learned lives in the castle that was used as the girls school on the TV show The Facts of Life). Opening up the first comic on the stack I saw some scratchy handwriting at the bottom of the first page and thought about how many comics I come across that are defaced by kids' scribbles. Then I realized this old comic isn't from my collection or yours, it's from Craig Yoe's collection. So of course that's Boody's handwriting…
Danny Hellman & Co. at Fantagraphics Sept. 13
NOTORIOUS NEW YORK CARTOONIST DANNY HELLMAN AT FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSTORE & GALLERY ON SEPTEMBER 13 Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to welcome storied New York cartoonist and illustrator Danny Hellman on Saturday, September 13 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Five accomplished local cartoonists who contributed to the new Hellman-edited alternative comics anthology TYPHON will join him at this festive signing. Danny Hellman has been making art for publication since 1988. His illustrations have appeared in TIME, NEWSWEEK, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, FORTUNE, FORBES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, FHM, GUITAR WORLD, NEW YORK PRESS, and countless others. Ever the clever prankster, “Dirty Danny”…
A look back at La Semaine de la Bande Desinée
Cynthia Rose, co-curator of La Semaine de la Bande Desinée, presents this excellent summary website with information about the project and hundreds of photos from the events (Kim Thompson's presentation and David B.'s talks and appearances) by photographer Steve Sampson. (This image of Jim Woodring at the David B. signing is particularly unmissable.)
