This week’s digital releases feature an artist with a several decade’s long career and the early work of a modern master. Let’s dive in!
The Draw of Sport compiles, in art and text, more than 150 of nationally syndicated columnist Murrary Olderman’s favorite personalities from the world of sports. Each full-page illustration is accompanied by Olderman’s personal reminiscences of those illustrious stars. Amongst the many names you’ll recognize are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammed Ali, Yogi Berra, Wilt Chamberlain, Mickey Mantle, Vince Lombardi, and many more. Swing for the fences and get The Draw of Sport for your table today through comiXology or Google Play.
Once again opening the Fantagraphics backlist vault this week, we’ve got two books by Anders Nilsen that pushed the medium forward with a combination of gags, abstractions, soliloquies, and takes on the forthcoming apocalypse. For the very first time, you can read these two books on your tablet:
Monologues for the Coming Plague by Anders Nilsen
Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes by Anders Nilsen