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Saturday, January 24, 2004
in sixteen years, i want a cat bus: jaime delano's 2020 visions will be returning this april in a new hardcover format courtesy of cyberosia publishing. originally published by vertigo, this dystopian look at our future is illustrated by frank quitely, warren pleece, james romberger, and steve pugh. it also sports a new introduction by sci-fi writter richard kadrey. a preview is available on the cyberosia website.
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while large trucks rip up the streets in front of my home today... the annual graphic novel festival in angouleme, france, is nearing its close. the winners of this year's prestigious prix d'angouleme have been posted on the festival website with manu larcenet's "le combat ordinaire" taking the coveted award for best graphic album:
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Friday, January 23, 2004
brainpowered #33: walking camera by warren ellis
"Moblog = mobile weblog, an online diary created on mobile devices. I've been doing this for many years with an email journal, BAD SIGNAL (in its previous incarnation, FROM THE DESK OF), which I've sent entries to from all over the world. I'm actually writing this on a mobile-enabled Handspring Visor PDA equipped with a fold-up keyboard. I haven't yet found a workable term for creating a moblog out of emailed photographs taken by and sent from a mobile phone. Someone tried to fly mopho, I've heard mophoblog, there's flog from fotolog via fotolog.net. Some friends and I chuck around futurephoneblog for a laugh. Moblog seems to be sticking."
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how far are you from the kccc? if you wanted to drive 27 hours and 28 minutes from my house to the kansas city comics con being held on jun 5th and 6th, this is how you'd get there:
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the spoon... it hurts: this may, adhouse books has announced the release of "monkey and spoon", a new children's book by english creator simone lia that promises to answer the age old question of whether a monkey can love a spoon. it's the first i'm hearing of it and my curiosity is already piqued.
posted by peter! 12:26 AM EST permalink
the subject is W.A.R.: each year, the small press expo (spx) offers aspiring cartoonists the chance to be published in their annual anthology. this year's theme is "war" and you're free to submit to them a 4 to 12 page b&w story up until jun 15th for consideration. more details on their submission guidelines page. if you're a professional artist looking for a writer, feel free to send me samples or a link to your portfolio at peter@artbomb.net (no large files please) and i'll pass it along to some of the writer's boards i belong to. no promises, etc.
posted by peter! 12:19 AM EST permalink
oh my god, i want a cat bus: viz has announced that they will be participating in "jump to japan: discovering culture through popular art", an exhibit that will be bringing japanese pop culture to children's museums in over 70 u.s. cities. the four-year (!) event starts at seattle's children's museum at the seattle center on jan 24th, where it will remain until jun 6th before continuing on its merry way. viz will be featuring the pokemon and hamtaro anime as well as the shonen jump manga, all wrapped around a lifesized cat bus centerpiece drawn from my neighbor totoro that i plan to break-in and hijack one night:
posted by peter! 12:11 AM EST permalink
they tease us, they do: also in their newsletter, d&q has released the titles of some of their new releases planned for fall '04, including a yoshihiro tatsumi reprint collection designed and edited by adrian tomine (!), gary panter's satiro-plastic sketchbook, michel rabagliati's paul moves out, r. crumb's crumb: the definitive record cover collection, harvey kurtzman's jungle book (!!), steve mumford's baghdad journal: an artist in occupied iraq, a (still untitled) retrospective from raw alumnus jerry moriarty featuring his strip "jack survives", and a brand new original (still untitled) graphic novel by david collier. no further information was provided, but stay tuned to the d&q news page for updates.
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Thursday, January 22, 2004
Welcome back, Indy Magazine!
posted by Matt 6:42 PM EST permalink
preview: haven't had time to parse the new D&Q newsletter yet, but the first item contains a link to a five-page preview of the long-awaited optic nerve #9 by adrian tomine, which will be previewed in mcsweeney's #13 as well. the previous eight issues have been collected into two graphic novels: sleepwalk and summer blonde.
posted by peter! 11:31 AM EST permalink
new review: last exit before toll by shaffer, mitten and pietrusko
"On his way to some business meeting somewhere in Virginia, rocking out to Slow Ride on the AM radio, Charles' car breaks down and strands him in just north of the middle of nowhere. His car seems to be in need of permanent repair, his cell phone gets no service, and the waitress at the diner flirts back a little -- so as he settles in to wait out the repair, he starts to, in fact, wait out the rest of his life. The less you know, the better..."
posted by peter! 11:25 AM EST permalink
tip: if you can look past the bbc dr. who-like production values, the six episode neverwhere series created and written by neil gaiman post-sandman is worth checking out. a&e published a two-disc box set a few months ago that i'm about halfway through. here's the amazon link:
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
it is.
posted by peter! 9:40 PM EST permalink
It looks like a jellyfish is humping that mountain.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004
now for something more serious: slowly but surely, it looks like comics are making some progress. here's a link to the comic books, comic strips, and graphic novels page at yale university library, that includes a bunch of interesting reading suggestions and website pointers. (thanks, warren, for the link.)
posted by peter! 12:43 AM EST permalink
warning: i shouldn't blog this, but it's so fucking weird that i'm compelled to share. please DO NOT click on this link if you're offended by pornography and what not -- you've been fairly warned. matt found it and describes it as: "an adult graphic novel called CHROME. in which someone uses POSER to make a story about a chrome dude raping cavegirls, who are raped first by cave men. More dicks than an NRA meeting."
posted by peter! 12:36 AM EST permalink
news: continuing our look at new releases for may of 2004, alternative comics has announced the debut of two graphic novels: the white elephant by damon "my uncle jeff" hurd and christopher steininger, as well as salmon doubts by adam sacks. click the covers below for more info (i'm really digging that white elephant cover):
 
posted by peter! 12:20 AM EST permalink
note: we converted to a new mailing list program and sent out a message a short while ago. if you didn't get it, please let me know at peter@artbomb.net and i'll sort it out. also, let me know if you have any trouble subscribing. gremlins in the system and all that.
posted by peter! 12:12 AM EST permalink
Monday, January 19, 2004
new review: planetes vol. 1 by makoto yukimura
"Rather than a gung-ho rush for the stars, there's a cautious, tempered idealism at play here: yes, Mankind should reach for the stars, but there will always be tragedies, there will always be casualties, there will always be losses, and there will always be interference from the more venal political agendas. The heroes are, after all, garbage men."
posted by peter! 12:39 PM EST permalink
note: matt is refidgeting his personal website today -- it should be up shortly with newly refidgeted stuff.
posted by peter! 12:16 PM EST permalink
news: craig thompson's blankets is cleaning up more awards, including being named one of the best books of 2003 by the library journal. this is the first time a graphic novel has been named to this list and it shares the honors with marjane satrapi's persepolis:
 
both blankets and persepolis also made the young adult library services association (yalsa) best of 2003 list, along with jeff parker's the interman and jason little's shutterbug follies:
 
(click on the pics for their artbomb reviews.)
posted by peter! 11:56 AM EST permalink
news: nbm has announced their may releases as well, including the second volume of p. craig russell's opera adaptations (link/pic below), donna barstow's what do women really want vol 1: chocolate (which sounds interesting, but i don't have any other details), stephen weiner's the rise of the graphic novel, and the 14th issue of richard moore's boneyard. stay tuned to nbm's website for more details.
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Sunday, January 18, 2004
news: and speaking of new releases, our friends at metaphrog have announced the fourth book in their delightful louis series, entitled "dreams never die" that promises to be a multi-media explosion complete with animations and music by the berlin musician hey and the icelandic musician mum. look for it in may. in the meantime, click below for our review of the first book. (mental note to get to the others between now and then...) and make sure to checkout their shockwave-driven website for updates.
posted by peter! 4:13 PM EST permalink
news: top shelf has announced their may releases, including derek kirk kim's same difference & other stories, gavin burrows and simon gane's all flee!, nartin cendreda's dang!, john pham's epoxy giant size special, and the fourth issue of comic book artist. click the pics below for more info:
   
(and click here for our review of same differences when it was first distributed by alternative comics.)
posted by peter! 3:55 PM EST permalink
link: ingrid writes in with more dutch cartoons, this time from the cartoonist known as nix. here's a pic commenting on the television show "big brother", which i hear was a bit more risque overseas then the god awful abomination shown over here.
nifty website at: nix.be
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