Tonight To Do: Michael Kupperman at the Strand
Lighten the mood with a well-timed reading.
MOME #16 cover by Renee French
We got a lot of nice linkage for our interview with Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds the other day, and the piece included a few snippets of little-seen art, but just in case you missed it,...
Eagerly awaited: NANCY!!!
And yet another fantastic announcement you may have missed in the San Diego scramble: Fantagraphics is reprinting NANCY, Ernie Bushmiller's great experiment in ontology, starting in early 2010.
According to Co-Publisher Gary Groth, who...
Tom Kaczynski and Dash Shaw team up for buddy comic
It's for an upcoming issue of MOME and it looks rich. Kaczynski writes and does layouts, while Shaw finishes.
Jason interview and news
Reading or conducting an interview with Norwegian comics genius Jason can be kind of frustrating, because he's just not a fountain of words. But Brian Heater gets him to yap about as much as...
A few BEA thoughts
I'm working on a focused BEA wrap-up for PW Comics Week, so I'll post some of my more random thoughts here.
• I twittered that it was a "good show", although that's a hugely...
Publishing news: FBI kids comics, death, cancellation
In news that must have many people standing around looking blank and confused, Fantagraphics has announced plans to publish a series of GNs that tie in with a new animated kids series. Yes,...
Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me by Peter Bagge
The Flog Blog at Fantagraphics previews one of this summer's must-haves: Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me by Peter Bagge, which reprints his various comics for Reason and other places. The site has...
Snake’N’Bacon on Adult Swim
Around Stately Beat Manor, few names are held in such reverence as that of Michael Kupperman, because he makes us laugh tears of unfettered joy and abandon. Well, not only is a new Tales...
Aroo, Nell Brinkley, Milt Gross — is there no end to these riches?
How on earth are we supposed to find money and shelf space for all the incredible books of fantastic historical material that keeps flooding out? Who knew that so much of the good stuff...
Tonight: HUMBUG at the Strand
Tonight, a comic event which will be very difficult to top no matter how many more you see this year:
An Evening with HUMBUGFeaturing Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee in conversation with Gary GrothTuesday, April...
LUBA out in April
A mammoth collection assembling three previous reprints by the peerless Gilbert Hernandez.
Want.
The Fantagraphics website even has a Flickr slideshow.
http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=69832
