Gary Panter’s new website
Gary Panter has revamped his website, and of course this means hours of poring over comics, drawings, paintings and historical artifacts. Panter also has a few events coming up for you West Coasters.
GB Tran’s VIETNAMERICA
Artist GB Tran has just relaunched his website, and he has a preview of VIETNAMERICA, a comics memoir to be published by Villard next...
Frazetta page fetches $380,000
We're not necessarily going to make a cottage industry out of running all these "record setting art sales" PR pieces, but given the recent...
2010 Manning Award nominees
Nominees for the 2010 Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award, recognizing some of the finest emerging cartoonists, were announced yesterday. The award is selected...
Things that need to be on a t-shirt: Will Sliney
Seriously. Via Molly McIsaac's unicorn sketchbook.
Heritage sets yet more records with Miller and Crumb sales
Via a press release, and speaking of Frank Miller, Heritage Auctions set a record by selling a page of Miller art from Daredevil #188 for $101,575. According to Todd Hignite, who is Consignment Director for Original Comic and Illustration Art for Heritage, it's a record for original art from the 80s, and "one of the handful of highest prices that Heritage has ever seen paid for a piece of comic art, period. It’s in very rarefied company.”
New Yorker alert: Ivan Brunetti
The New Yorker has totally been on a cartoonist cover tear lately, with Joost Swarte, Daniel Clowes and now Ivan Brunetti. Who's next???
Steven Murray’s Lostipedia
While your recovering from the emotional overload of last night's Lost finale, you can say goodbye just a little more with this interactive guide to all the characters and how they died from the National Post's Steven Murray, a.k.a. Chip Zdarsky.
Dalrymple’s Spider-Man
It's sort of the worst kept secret in comics that there will be a second Strange Tales anthology from Marvel, featuring more indie cartoonists presenting their takes on classic Marvel characters. The latest cartoonist to let the cat out of the bag is Farel Dalrymple who posted this excellent panel from a Spider-Man story.
Faith Erin Hicks’ Wolverine is da bomb
GIRL COMICS #2 is out this week (a little late) and Faith Erin Hicks' Wolverine comic provides a pleasing preview.












