FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS & DESERT ISLAND present: WHERE DEMENTED WENTED: Celebrating the Comics and Art of RORY HAYES Join us for a book release party and panel discussion featuring: KIM DEITCH BILL GRIFFITH GEOFFREY HAYES and moderator DAN NADEL Listing information: WHAT: Book Release Party for WHERE DEMENTED WENTED: THE ART AND COMICS OF RORY HAYES, with panel discussion and Q&A WHO: Dan Nadel, Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith & Geoffrey Hayes WHERE: DESERT ISLAND • 540 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY • 718.388.5087 • desertislandbrooklyn.com WHEN: Friday, August 8, 7PM (discussion begins at 8PM) FREE ADMISSION An exclusive, limited-edition Hayes silkscreen will…
Midwest in Paris this Saturday.
Sketchbook #60
Courtesy Kevin Scalzo:
Alexander Theroux Podcast
Colin Marshall interviews Alexander Theroux about Laura Warholic on his latest Marketplace of Ideas podcast. Listen here.
Tonight in Toronto!
Tonight in Toronto: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO, a Canuckian book launch for Toronto author BLAKE BELL on Wednesday, June 18th from 7PM-9PM at the Lillian H. Smith Library (239 College St., Toronto). And yes, FREE.
MoCCA Yodas
By Miss Lasko-Gross, Ted Stearn, Leah Hayes, Dash Shaw, Sam Henderson, Jason, Lynda Barry, Michael Kupperman, and Alex Cox. (Click the thumbnails for larger versions.) Fantastic, one and all. I'll get you next time, Mr. Panter.
Ghost Writer
Concerning the post below– for the record, the first time I spoke to Dash Shaw was while designing the covers to BBB and, out of nowhere, he spoke at length about Ghost Rider and all these ideas he had about the character. To the extent that when we got off the phone I wasn't sure if he was talking about what he WOULD do with the title or what he WAS doing. I'm not at all kidding when I say he had the character so thought out that I figured he was secretly putting together a book with Marvel. Apparently…
BEA 2008
A couple of weeks ago Gary and I went to Los Angeles for BEA 2008. In the Comic Book Salesman game we like to call this a "buy week." Here are some photos… 1 – 4. The Fantagraphics booth 5. Joe Matt, Chris Oliveros and Ron Rege Jr. (kind of blurry; but nice) 6. My man Jamie Saloman! Who has some cool photos up at the D&Q blog (Hey Jamie, Thanks for the Rory Hayes and Snatch articles. I love it when Hayes talks shit about Gene Colan's drawing!) 7. Joe points out something in his AMAZING jam sketchbook. 8….
20 page BOTTOMLESS excerpt
Pursuant to yesterday's link to NY Magazine's feature on BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON creator Dash Shaw, NY Mag's VULTURE blog follows-up with Dash's vision for a revamped GHOST RIDER (seriously) as well as offers an exclusive 20 page excerpt from BBB. For FREE! Meanwhile, Van Jensen interviewed Dash for CBR, and posted a review of BBB at ComicMix, calling it "the first great graphic novel of 2008."
Sketchbook #59
Courtesy Lewis Trondheim. Watching Trondheim draw this freehand, in just a couple of minutes, was kind of incredible:
