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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
dlasky	3:15a	Under the Futon Under the Futon 1, originally uploaded by davidlasky. The other day, Bear and Lizzie were terrorized by a tree service that was running a very loud wood-chipper outside in the cul-de-sac. I didn't like it much either. (Comment on this)
dlasky	2:11a	Pencil Pushers I was pleased to learn that art critic Regina Hackett mentioned me in her blog, in a writeup of the Friends of the Nib show at the Vermillion Gallery.  (Thanks, Kaia Chessen, for tipping me off to that.) (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
suxdonut	5:04p	Seattle/Cascadia podcasts? Hey I'm trying to get some relevant other podcasts to link to from my podcast website, but don't know anyone who 'casts offhand, having just gotten into the audio game. Anyone on this list have a podcast or know of someone local who does? I'll give them hot link :) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
spiderling	2:00p	DARK MOON DIARY VOLUME 2 Well Tokyopop made good and chapter 1 of Dark Moon Diary vol 2 is now up to be read online!! Support it! Vote for it! Give it lots of hits and positive feedback and send the link to all your friends!!!  http://www.tokyopop.com/product/1415/DarkMoonDiary/2 I know I spammed a significant number of you last night but I also know I did it from my Yahoo and so a few of you were forgotten! Also I left off Anneke! Apologies! Although maybe not all of you want the spam- well you get it anyway!!  And yes- I just pated the same message into my LJ... Deal... God- and how hateful is the Tokyopop site now with that damn Square Enix MMORPG add playing in the back ground!!??!?!?! WTF??? Some of us are on DSL!! AND DOLLY PEOPLES!! Please spread the word!!! I want to commission a pre-ordered White Rabbit open eyed Yo and Alice or Lorina from NY Dolpa!!!! My WTB on DoA was taken down *SOB* I pm'd a Mod and they are discussing it, but please! Friends of friends, of friends!!! Is anyone going and they raen't buying the Yos???? Anyway... Check it out! My yucca is going to blossom too! That or its growing a giant asparigus spear.... More writing meme later! Despite lackluster response to the last post LOL! Current Mood: good (5 Comments |Comment on this)
jennydevildoll	3:47p	Comic based on a pin someone gave me, sent to NY Waste. Current Music: The Cramps (3 Comments |Comment on this)
altcomix [ greatfire ]	3:53p	The Civil Four: Death of a Nation - 1 By me and my pal Casey Van Heel from the NYC comedy troupe the Jerk Practice Revisionist history in the best format ... an epically ridiculous comic book trailer! Current Mood: rejuvenated Current Music: Die Vorstellung des Chaos (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
fluffyduck	12:18a	"MAKE DUE" FOR THE THIRD TIME AAAAARGH *strangles whole localisation team* In unrelated news, lurking in a weightlifting forum sure makes you better at drawing male anatomy. 8D Current Mood: productive Current Music: Phoenix - Holdin' On Together (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
fantagraphics	4:37a	Webcomics update for 3/19/10 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Webcomics-update-for-3-19-10.html&Itemid=113 Friday night and the feeling is right for your weekly batch of new online strips: Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto in this week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson... ...aw nuts, it's this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan.... ...and this week's Barack Hussein Obama strip from Steven Weissman totally reminds me of a Venture Bros. episode. (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	4:37a	Things to see: 3/19/10 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Things-to-see-3-19-10.html&Itemid=113 Daily clips & strips — click for improved viewing at the sources: • It's Jaime Hernandez's cover for the first issue of the CBGB comic — more info at Robot 6 • Cormorants a-courtin' by Debbie Drechsler • Still digging these "structure" drawings by Tom Kaczynski (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	4:37a	Daily OCD: 3/19/10 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Daily-OCD-3-19-10.html&Itemid=113 Online Commentary & Diversions: • Awards: Congratulations to Steve Brodner, nominated for a National Cartoonist Society Division Award (a.k.a. the Reubens) for Advertising Illustration (as reported by The Comics Reporter) • List/Review: Shannon Smith of File Under Other names Michael Kupperman a favorite cartoonist of 2009 and comments briefly on Mome Vol. 13: "Open letter to comics publishers: If you put Josh Simmons in your book I will buy or steal a copy." (Good news Shannon: be on the lookout for Vol. 19. But please don't steal it.) • Review: "West Coast Blues is a cracking good crime comic, not really noir but definitely a tale of bad people doing bad things to each other. It's also, oddly enough, very wryly humorous, in a way we don't often see in crime comics here in the States. ... Tardi's art is quite stellar, as well. He's amazingly detailed, but he doesn't pull any tricks on the reader — his work is very straight forward. ...Tardi matches Manchette with panels that demand a great deal of attention - this is a visual feast as well as a literary one." – Greg Burgas, Comic Book Resources (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	2:56a	Jim Blanchard's Icon Soup art show http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Jim-Blanchard-s-Icon-Soup-art-show.html&Itemid=113 Jim Blanchard's got an art show up now at The Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro in Bellingham WA, with a blowout closing reception/rock show on May 29. Hoo doggie! More info at Jim's blog. (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	1:04a	R. Crumb wallets http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=R.-Crumb-wallets.html&Itemid=113 My original title for this post was "R. Crumb FUCKs Wallets." Maybe I should've stuck with that. It's probably a sign that I'm too cynical that my reaction to this was mild surprise that it's an authorized design (licensed by Supreme for Porter, or something like that) rather than a ripoff, which would have been pretty easy to do. See more images & products at SLAMXHYPE (via Alan David Doane). No word on where to buy these. Japan maybe? UPDATE: Our super-sleuth in residence Janice Headley comments: no! in new york! http://www.supremenewyork.com/ (Comment on this)
Friday, March 19th, 2010
fantagraphics	11:09p	Beto photos: Gilbert Hernandez at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, Mar. 13, 2010 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Beto-photos-Gilbert-Hernandez-at-Fantagraphics-Bookstore-Gallery-Mar.-13-2010.html&Itemid=113 Jeez, was it really only last weekend that Gilbert Hernandez was in town? We've got a set of photos documenting his signing and art opening at our flagship store, including shots of all the artwork in the exhibit for those of you who can't make it to view the show in person. Look for a guest appearance by L.A.-based pop-surrealist artist Camille Rose Garcia, too. Browse the whole set here, or sit back and let the slideshow roll here. (Comment on this)
spiderling	11:11a	Writing Meme/Grapes Random title I know. I miss using the funny quotes but I can't find the book I had them written in and I guess I don't want people to skip over my posts any more than they already do because they don't know what the content of the post is. Anyway, I saw cornerofmadness 's writing meme and thought it looked like fun so I thought I'd post my answers since I like to talk about meself as much as anyone. 1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why. One of my current favorites is the setting for Ambriel/the RFN it has vampires but they aren't like a lot of vampires, they are just regular people with jobs and lives who still have to take the trash out. But there's more to it than that. The book is actually highly politacal- not that it's super deep or anything, but it reflects a bit of the current political climate particularly the current USA vs. the Terrorists. There is an empire slowly taking over the world of Ambriel and Ambriel lives in the empire- so she is part of this 'we will come to your country and take over and save you' mentality but she discovers through friends and her own research that maybe the Empire shouldn't be the great decider of what's right for everyone. There are no real bad guys in the book, only two opposing points of view that are fairly irreconcilable. I liked Nachtwald a lot too, that was always fun. I love Europe and it was excuse to have everyone live in castles. But Nachtwald had layers that I never got to explore too which is a bit frustrating. And since TP ownshalf the copyrights I'll probably never get to explore it again A third and final universe I have which I have NO plot for but is a GREAT cityscape is one calle Sepulcher. The city is built on the bones of a titanic leviathan animal that dies ages ago. The sould of the leviathan is trapped between life and death making the city a perfect place for necromancers to go and study. Sepulcher is isolated on a vast plane at the edge of The Sea of Glass, and the surrounding territory is controlled by nomads who ride huge mastadons. There are several species living in Sepulcher, the Sennecherib who are a humanoid race who took over Sepulcher in a bloodless coup. Humans, Spiderkine which are housecat size spiders who deliver the local mail for free and run messages. And a few other undecided species which I haven't worked on. I would LOVE for Sepulcher to be a shared universe because I can't think of any plots for it myself. I have spent years working on the Sennecherib and have numerous drawings of them. I have a few characters including Governor Verool the Sennecherib military governor of the city, a Senecherib who has himself exiled from Sennechrerib society to become a whore, and a Sennecherib police detective and his human psychic partner. The police story is the most promising one I have come up with so far. But I have mnaps of the city, notes on drugs, the world, the attitudes, places and a sketch of the city. Sooo, any takers?? We can publish an anthology of Sepulcher tales! LOL! Lastly- My grape vines are sprouting! Or leafing, or budding or whatever. Current Mood: okay (2 Comments |Comment on this)
tmcm	1:30a	art contest This is cool. chuck Harrison did this unsolicited art and entered it into this paul frank contest. Check it out. Vote if you're so inclined (would be appreciated though). http://www.paulfrank.com/art_attack/rate/entry/204 Earlier this eve I was in an indy movie made by a guy from my local video store. Turns out I'm a terrible actor. We had to do a dozen takes of the scene where a pass is rebuffed with a slap from my daughter. Current Music: Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo CD05 - Stieg Larsson (2 Comments |Comment on this)
fantagraphics	2:04a	Black Hole short film redux http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Black-Hole-short-film-redux.html&Itemid=113 This 2007 short film adaptation of Charles Burns's Black Hole by director Rupert Sanders seems to be making the rounds again. I can't locate any info out there as to why or how this was made, but it's worth a second look. (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
fantagraphics	11:33p	Things to see: 3/18/10 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Things-to-see-3-18-10.html&Itemid=113 Daily clips & strips — click for improved viewing at the sources: • The conclusion of Steven Weissman's "This Already Happened" is up at What Things Do — you gotta go back and read the whole thing • This week's "Belligerent Piano" by Tim Lane is up • Gonna try to remember to send you to Tony Millionaire's new Maakies strip each week from now on • OLMH is a new lithograph from John Hankiewicz • Floating Moats is a new abstract minicomic/art zine from our own Tony Remple, available at Profanity Hill • Nobody draws the mysterious object quite like Renee French • Two recent illo jobs by Ray Fenwick (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	11:33p	Daily OCD: 3/18/10 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Daily-OCD-3-18-10.html&Itemid=113 Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "It’s vaudevillian and it’s Old Hollywood. It’s rock n’ roll and beat poetry. It’s introspective and depressing and quite often funny, and depicts a world that exists on the fringes of society where the American Dream meets the cold, harsh reality of life as viewed through a grimy windshield. ... When you put all the pieces together, you don’t simply get a story or a group of stories, you get a book that pulls back the curtain on the collective unconscious of a nation. ... Like the myths that it is inspired by, Abandoned Cars lingers long after reading and grows in stature as you re-live and re-tell it." – Chad Derdowski, Mania • Review: "Part of Pim & Francie’s disconcerting effect is that it confounds easy categorization, leaving the reader uncertain what exactly this book is, or how to approach it. It doesn’t contain discrete, coherent stories, but it’s also more unified and linear than a sketchbook; there are continuing characters, recurring images and situations, even a discernable arc. It’s possible to piece together narratives from the fragments here, the way you might reconstruct a crime scene from bits of evidence, or a nightmare from fading details. These stories may even be all the more potent for having to be inferred, like the phantasms we imagine when we listen to horror stories on the radio." – Tim Kreider, The Comics Journal •Profile/Review: Thought Balloonists' Charles W. Hatfield has a doozy of a report from Robert Williams's March 10 lecture at Cal. State Northridge, with plenty of insight into the artist, the talk, and the Conceptual Realism exhibit at the CSUN gallery: "Williams and his academic audience met halfway; the bracing, not to say ass-kicking, potency of the paintings seemed to wow most of the crowd. This was a fine performance, enlivened from the start by Williams' genuine gratitude and enthusiasm for being there." • Plug: Library Journal spotlights Jason's Werewolves of Montpellier among notable July graphic novel releases: "Having subjected zombies to the witty vagaries of his goofy, humanized animals, Eisner Award winner Jason tackles werewolves mixed up in re-creational burglary and romance. It’s the pretender vs. the professionals — who are not happy about amateur competition." • Television: Adult Swim will start re-running The Drinky Crow Show starting March 30, so mark your calendars and set your DVRs now. Even if you caught it the first time, it merits repeat viewings (Comment on this)
dlasky	2:46a	Rest in Peace, Alex Chilton (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	2:22a	One more first look: Dungeon Quest Book 1 by Joe Daly http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=One-more-first-look-Dungeon-Quest-Book-1-by-Joe-Daly.html&Itemid=113 We thought we wouldn't get them until next week, but lo, the delivery man dropped off our advances of Dungeon Quest Book 1 by Joe Daly earlier this afternoon. (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	2:22a	First Look: Take a Joke (Angry Youth Comix Vol. 3) by Johnny Ryan http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=First-Look-Take-a-Joke-Angry-Youth-Comix-Vol.-3-by-Johnny-Ryan.html&Itemid=113 Hey jeez, look what I just stumbled across on Johnny Ryan's Flickr page. Coming 2011 apparently. Dunno if this is a work in progress. Nobody tells me nothin'. (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	2:22a	Things to see: 3/17/10 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Things-to-see-3-17-10.html&Itemid=113   • Dash Shaw models his "Dieball Trophy" BodyWorld silkscreen print, now available from Desert Island in Brooklyn • This week's "I, Anonymous" spot by Steven Wiessman • At The Hooded Utilitarian, Ng Suat Tong examines some examples of Hal Foster's original art • Marco Corona presents some "drawings from the crypt" • Renee French is on a mouth/teeth kick lately • Glenn & Wendy looking grumpy, presented without context by Kevin Huizenga • 'Nother one of these guys from Tom Kaczynski (Comment on this)
fantagraphics	2:22a	Daily OCD: 3/17/10 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Daily-OCD-3-17-10.html&Itemid=113 Erin go Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "[Sand & Fury] is a dark, violent horror story that provides a contemporary update on a folklore standard. ... It's a good comic..." – Tucker Stone, The Factual Opinion • Review: "There’s an immediate laugh to be had with the extended title of Ho! The Morally Questionable Cartoons of Ivan Brunetti. This is a slyly hilarious understatement, a clever counterpoint to contents as there’s nothing “questionable” about these jokes. That’s their strength, although I say that within the clinically quarantined confines of a cartoon laboratory. They are as unconscionable, uninhibited and unimpeded as can be imagined and the fact that you couldn’t have imagined them unaided only adds to their stature (and yours)." – Rich Kreiner, "Yearlong Best of the Year," The Comics Journal • Staff: Catch our own Jason T. Miles as part of a panel on starting and running a small press at Seattle's Pilot Books on Saturday, March 20; more info at Profanity Hill (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
fantagraphics	11:49p	Warehouse find: Burne Hogarth's King Arthur Portfolio Vol. 2 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Warehouse-find-Burne-Hogarth-s-King-Arthur-Portfolio-Vol.-2.html&Itemid=113 We've unearthed some hidden treasure: Burne Hogarth's King Arthur Portfolio Vol. 2 by Burne Hogarth 6 black & white 11" x 17" prints • $125 reduced to $75 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Six beautifully produced prints depicting the rise and fall of Camelot in lush, detailed illustrations by a master of cartoon classicism. Printed with utmost quality and care on creamy, textured paper and housed in a sturdy folio, this is truly a deluxe collectors item. Out of print and lost in our warehouse for years, now available again at an affordable reduced price. Plate One of each set is signed and numbered by the artist. Originally produced in 1983 in an edition of 1500; these are the final 50 copies. (Comment on this)
beatonna	8:02p	20 000 leagues of Danger I love Verne. Did you notice? You probably did. ( news and some more things under the cut! ) (121 Comments |Comment on this)

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