Weekend photo parade
Rounding up a bunch of photos or cartooners spotted about the globe, conquering all in their path.
Via Jeff Newelt, photos from the Paul Pope Diesel Party in Hollywood celebrating the release of PULPHOPE
and debuting...
Joe Sacco tonight and tomorrow
Via Flog:
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to welcome to Seattle the cartoon genius that is Joe Sacco. This Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, Fantagraphics celebrates the publication of "Palestine: The Special Edition" with...
SPX: Fantagraphics
FBI will be at SPX in force. Check this FLOG post for even more details here her'es the signing schedule:
FRIDAY:
3:00 Paul Karasik & Bill Griffith
4:00 Paul Karasik & Bill Griffith
5:00 Gilbert Hernandez &...
Salma Hayek has baby!
We almost forget that actress Salma Hayek had a baby girl last week. Congratulations! Valentina Paloma Pinault is the first child for Hayek, 41, and fiancee Francois Henri Pinault, but great training for when...
To Do Tonight, WeHo: Malkasian and Hernandez at Book Soup
Cathy Malkasian (Percy Gloom) and Gilbert Hernandez appear tonight at Book Soup in West Hollywood:
WHO: Gilbert Hernandez & Cathy Malkasian
WHAT: Graphic novel signing
WHERE: Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 25th, 7PM
Municipal...
Facts emerge in fired teacher/EIGHTBALL case
The New Haven Register weighs in with actual news story about the story of Connecticut teacher Nathan Fisher who resigned after parents complained about him giving a 13-year-old a mature reader comic to read....
Porn comic revealed…..EIGHTBALL!
UPDATE: Based on the news video at the below link, it appears that the issue in questions was EIGHTBALL #22, shown at left. I had originally put a picture of Eightball #2 in this...
Fantagraphics’ 2nd Amendment rights under attack
Via Matt Silvie in Seattlest:
Police forces from the Snohomish County Sheriff's department and the Sultan Police department swarmed on the semi-annual Fantagraphics Shoot-out party on Saturday, shutting down the festivities after only a measly...
Indie news: Clowes, Brunetti, Jean, Pope
Some news tidbits items of note gleaned from our voluminous reading habit:
Via various postings at FLOG! The Fantagraphics Books:
§ Dan Clowes new strip MISTER WONDERFUL launches this Sunday 9/16 in the New York...
Fantagraphics old TCJ sale
Via FLOG, a warehouse find:
We recently did an audit of our Comics Journal back issue inventory to compare what's listed in the online store vs. what we have in our warehouse, and discovered that...
Hernandez Brothers Week
Blake Bell is celebrating Hernandez Brothers week, and of course you don't have to ask us twice to join in the fun. Bell is posting mp3's of a 1989 interview of Gilbert Hernandez by...
