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Saturday, July 31, 2004
hard (knit) superheroes:
weird shit courtesy of the greg kucera gallery in seattle. no joke.
 
[thanks jeff.]
posted by peter! 8:56 PM EST permalink
bri says sale:
help channel zero/demo creator and artbomb designer brian wood clear stuff out of his new home by buying a t-shirt. all orders will be accompanied by a free autographed copy of his channel zero: jennie one graphic novel. i still can't get enough out of this "jersey fresh" shirt:
posted by peter! 8:49 PM EST permalink
one for the kids:
original webcomics for the little tykes over at kidzworld.com.
posted by peter! 8:44 PM EST permalink
right hand of brent:
my good mate brent white has launched a website at righthandstudios.com where he's got a nifty flash interface that contains previews of his recent image book patient zero as well as our collaboration on killing demons, among other work. neat.
posted by peter! 8:37 PM EST permalink
Friday, July 30, 2004
babyfood:
new webcomic by bryan o'malley.
enjoy the complete strip at radiomaru.com.
posted by peter! 11:38 AM EST permalink
conversations with crumb:
"When R. Crumb, the father of underground comics, was just starting out, he made a pass at Playboy hoping to sell cartoons to its cartoon editor. He tells the story in the new book R. Crumb: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi). 'It's funny, in 1966 I went to Playboy... and I showed her my big sketch book and she said it was nice, 'but that it's not Playboy. Why don't you try to do something in the Playboy fashion?'' Later, when Crumb was world famous, the same editor came to him, offering $500 per page. 'I had the supreme pleasure of telling her to stick it,' Crumb says.
"R. Crumb: Conversations collects interviews that span the late 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In these Crumb proves to be iconoclastic, opinionated, and—despite his celebrity—impervious to the commercial moods of the public."
more at the university press of mississippi.
posted by peter! 11:33 AM EST permalink
Thursday, July 29, 2004
for best results -- do not open:
"Meathaus Press, the company responsible for helping to launch the comic book careers of Tomer Hanuka, Farel Dalrymple, and recent Eisner award winner James Jean, has just announced its newest special, available in the August issue of Previews Magazine. This new self-contained one-shot is titled For Best Results: Do Not Open, and is written by Matthew K. Manning (Justice League Adventures, Spider-Man Unlimited) with art by Robert Donnelly (Meathaus, Reflux Comics).
"This off-beat satire set in a future dystopian society, deals with an average Joe who comes into possession of a mysterious box that could be the answer to mankind's wildest dreams. Instead, he finds himself on the run from the FBI, the most powerful man on the planet, and a self-loathing vampire priest."
preview art and more at matthewkmanning.com.
posted by peter! 11:54 AM EST permalink
chic to be geek:
the minneapolis star tribune on big brain comics.
"Unlike most stores, Big Brain doesn't sell back issues. It only sells new comics and graphic novels (the book-length bound comics that offer complete stories rather than installments).
"[Michael] Drivas also is more interested in the literary aspect of comics, rather than regarding them only as collector's items. The boom-and-bust period of the early '90s, when comic companies encouraged collectors to buy everything, left a sour taste in his mouth. Nowadays, as a reader, you can find most old multi-issue stories in the collected graphic novel format, anyway. Graphic novels take up half of Big Brain's business..."
posted by peter! 11:46 AM EST permalink
more con pics:
courtesy of a. david lewis (right), joanne mutch, and raina telegemeier over at the pulse. hopefully, i'll get mine out of my phone this weekend.
"nice pants, true believer."
posted by peter! 11:38 AM EST permalink
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
new review: x-day by setona mizushiro
"X-DAY begins like your average shojo manga. Its heroine, Rika, is suffering from regular teenage problems. A leg injury has left the former track star mentally incapable of rejoining her team, and the girl who urges her to reconsider turns out to be the same girl that stole her boyfriend when her back was turned. Rika's heart is broken and no one understands her.
"Things take a different turn, though, when she goes to the computer lab and logs on to one of the school's chatrooms. A stray comment she makes inspires one of the other participants, Polaris, to make cryptic references to blowing up the campus. While most dismiss Polaris as an idiotic joker, she leaves some clues about how to find her if anyone is interested in discussing it further.
"Normalcy has left the building."
(more from jamie s. rich)
posted by peter! 12:00 PM EST permalink
korean fever:
the korea times notes the success of korean comics at the san diego con.
"According to the Korea Culture and Content Agency (KCCA), a governmental enterprise assisting small- and medium-sized companies in creative industries into overseas markets, reported there had been $1.13 million worth of deals in copyright purchases of Korean cartoon and comic book characters during the four-day event at the San Diego Convention Center on July 22-25. The number accounts for about 13 percent of sales increases from last year's fair...
"Forty new comic books will be newly joining the North American market with the contract."
posted by peter! 11:56 AM EST permalink
girl power:
the boston globe on young women and japanese comics.
"Jenna Leary, an 18-year-old Berkley resident, owns a collection of 191 titles. Like most other fans, she got into manga (MON-guh) by watching anime on TV, in her case Sailor Moon, the popular tale of a teenage girl superhero, and Gundam Wing, a sci-fi adventure. That was back in sixth grade. Now her taste leans toward shonen manga, such as Akira, an apocalyptic story of post-World War III Tokyo featuring motorcycle gangs, a nuclear explosion, and terrorists. The comics come in multivolume issues capped with cliffhanger endings that keep fans reading to the last edition. Leary is so captivated she's been known to spend $50 to $60 a week on the graphic novels when she has the cash.
"'My friends decided I needed to go to a manga anonymous meeting,' jokes Leary, who'll be a freshman at Bridgewater State College this fall, 'because I have an addiction problem.'"
posted by peter! 11:48 AM EST permalink
rip: oguz aral
the turkish press is reporting the death of cartoonist oguz aral.
"Famous Turkish cartoonist Oguz Aral (68) passed away in Bodrum town of western Mugla province on Monday... Aral is the founder of Girgir and Avni humor magazines. He increased circulation of Girgir more than 300,000 and made it Europe's third biggest humor magazine. His most famous caricature character is Avanak Avni (Fool Avni)."
posted by peter! 11:39 AM EST permalink
the basement tapes:
fraction's new column with joe casey has gone live over at comicbookresources.com:
"I'm exhausted by the Culture of Attrition that's developed around pop culture, trash culture, whatever -- that the race to diminish expectations and the resignation that things are supposed to suck is taken as an acceptable state of things. If some blip on the pop screen registers even slightly above 'total shit,' it's lauded and praised to high-heaven. Because we let it run unchecked; because we tell ourselves entertainment -- pure and unpretentious entertainment -- is supposed to be vacuous, thoughtless, uninspired and mediocre. When you foster a mindset of no expectations, you walk around pleasantly surprised all the time by pap not worth the time of day."
posted by peter! 11:32 AM EST permalink
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
where did all the comics go?
the new york times takes a look at the dominance of movies at this past weekend's san diego comics con, which was the big story of the show.
"Hollywood, these days, is flush with movies based on comic books, graphic novels -- stories narrated in sequential panels -- and original science-fiction and horror fare, making Comic-Con a vital promotional tool in movie marketing campaigns. Comic book lovers eager for the latest gossip obsess over cast changes and plot details, posting convention news about their favorite movies online. A star turn by a celebrity or screenwriter can turn negative publicity to good. Indeed, an eager reception at Comic-Con, which was expected to draw more than 75,000 fans this year, can be more valuable than a red carpet appearance at a movie's premiere or a trip to the The Tonight Show."
"So much so, no less than 18 Hollywood blockbuster hopefuls -- even those not derived from comic books -- were promoted this weekend at Comic-Con, a sizable increase from years past..."
"dude..."
(i should have some pix later this week once i figure out how to get them out of my picture phone...)
posted by peter! 11:17 AM EST permalink
nothing ever happens:
"The San Jose Museum of Art presents Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens through October. This traveling exhibition, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, will feature nearly 150 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Yoshitomo Nara, one of the most influential artists to emerge from Japan during the Pop art movements of the nineties. Admission to the San Jose Museum of Art and the exhibit is free. The prolific and soft-spoken Nara is internationally recognized for his neo-pop paintings and sculptures that feature big-eyed, alternately sad, mischievous or even malevolent children." more at absolutearts.com.
posted by peter! 11:11 AM EST permalink
black humor:
andrew arnold takes a look at birth of a nation, the new graphic novel from aaron mcgruder, reginald hudlin and kyle baker in the Aug 2nd issue of Time Magazine.
"Graphic novels used to be viewed as comic books -- only bigger and more pretentious. Now that sales are booming, the medium is being embraced by artists as a hip way to tell challenging stories. The just released Birth of a Nation (Crown; 140 pages) by Aaron McGruder, creator of the controversial comic strip The Boondocks, and Reginald Hudlin, director of the 1990 movie House Party, began as a movie script that used race as the centerpiece of a political satire..."
posted by peter! 10:57 AM EST permalink
roadkill:
catwoman got trounced at the box office, the latest big screen embarrassment to be adapted from dc comics. batman begins can't come soon enough...
posted by peter! 10:44 AM EST permalink
pull the trigger:
on saturday, lance henriksen stopped by the booth, bought an artbomb t-shirt, and suggested that we produce a new one that reads "pull the trigger". you can't beat that.
posted by peter! 10:39 AM EST permalink
Monday, July 26, 2004
he's alive!
...but only barely. will return to harass the countryside tomorrow after i've had some zzz's, a shower and some chinese food.
posted by peter! 11:37 AM EST permalink
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