Crumb at Supreme
Is the one thing missing from your fall wardrobe a t-shirt of zip-front oodie bedecked with Robert Crumb art? Look no further! Supreme has what you crave:
Robert Dennis Crumb is an American artist and...
PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP a best-seller
We were tooling around on Amazon the other day, and happened to notice what the best selling graphic novels were. #1 is something called DARK HUNGER by Christine Feehan, apparently a manga-ized version of...
Chemistry set lauches KID HOUDINI
PR:
The Chemistry Set and creator Dwight L. MacPherson are pleased to announce the launch of Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Gang on the 81st anniversary of the death of legendary escape artist and...
To Do tonight, Brooklyn: SHORTCOMINGS release party
Wednesday, October 3rd @ 7PM
ADRIAN TOMINE - SHORTCOMINGS *Release Party
BookCourt- 163 Court Street Brooklyn
Details here.
PS: More Adrian Tomine interviewing at Gothamist:
Having lived and worked on both coasts now, what do you think is the...
Kids WB is no more
Various news sources are reporting that The CW is ending the Kids WB! Saturday morning programming block, instead licensing it out to 4Kids, which already programs Fox's Saturday morning fare. The deal with 4Kids...
A little more REPTILIA
Manga for the rest of us: IDW previews Umezu's REPTILIA. Much more in link.
Manga conventions
One more manga post! Over at Sporadic Sequentialcultural anthropologist and Japan-based manga expert Matt Thorn explains why manga is so exacting:
Sure, there's a wide variety of subject matter in manga, and more...
Links we liked
§ We'd be completely remiss if we didn't point out Tom Spurgeon's comprehensive post on the great cartoonist Bill Mauldin in advance of Fantagraphics' release of Willie & Joe: The WWII Years.
§ Joey Manley...
Manganovel and Toshiba pact for scanlations
Via PR, news of a new legit venture to allow fans to create their own scanlations:
Manganovel Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they will bring the universe of Japanese manga to the global...
ComicMix comics launch
ComicMix debuts its long teased original comics with Grimjack, a new front page, a new comics reader and so on. Check it out.
Drawn & Quarterly is opening a store!
Details via the D&Q blog -- apparently it is the kind of place where a golden afternoon light always shines, as earnest folk in mufflers roam amongst the stacks of fine books -- our...
Umezu at IDW
Freaky manga-ka legend Kazuo Umezu is getting another shot in America via REPTILIA, due this October from IDW, which is making its first foray into manga publishing:
Just in time for Halloween, IDW Publishing brings...
