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Saturday, October 30, 2004
suicide kills:
"COMMERCIAL SUICIDE 2.0, 102 pages of sick and twisted humour comics, launched at the London comics convention October 23, 2004 – and sold over half its European print run in one day. This continues the lineage founded by its noble precursor, COMMERCIAL SUICIDE 1.0, which managed to sell out its entire print run before noon on the first day of the Bristol Comics Festival 2004.
"Perfect for fans of SOUTH PARK, THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, VIZ (UK) or simply offending passing elderly relations, COMMERCIAL SUICIDE features such socially irredeemable strips as The New Adventures of Sigmund Freud by Juan Arteaga and Felipe Sobreiro; Daisy Cashes In by Alex de Campi; and Richie Clatt: Internet Twat by Viktor Smart. 'While there may be more artistically minded anthologies in the world, we're the only one which features Sigmund Freud in S&M gear fighting international terrorism with only radical psychoanalysis and martial arts.' Co-tyrant Kieron Gillen effuses, 'These things really matter'.
"The book is now available for sale in UK/Europe for £5 plus shipping, and in North and South America for $8 plus shipping, via links on the book's website, www.commercialsuicidecomic.com. Customers in North and South America may also purchase the book directly at my.lulu.com/content/82924.
"Co-Tyrants Alex de Campi and Kieron Gillen are constantly considering submissions for Commercial Suicide 3.0, set for May 2005. Interested, interesting and disease-minded individuals of all experience should consider contacting them. Details are available at www.commercialsuicidecomic.com/subs.htm."
politically incorrect preview pages below:
 
posted by peter! 3:17 PM EST permalink
Friday, October 29, 2004
stolle bengtsson:
"A comic about everyday life, unprovoked violence and genuine love..."
http://stolle.zor.org/
posted by peter! 11:11 PM EST permalink
Thursday, October 28, 2004
bloodsucker tales:
in stores now, featuring "juarez" (or "lex nova & the case of the 400 dead mexican girls") by messrs. matt fraction and ben templesmith...
(more at the idw website)
posted by peter! 11:35 PM EST permalink
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
artbomb review:
usagi yojimbo: travels with jotaro
by stan sakai
"There are two major factors that make Stan Sakai's USAGI YOJIMBO so compelling: the adventure and the soap opera. Over two-and-a-half decades, Sakai has kept the plots exciting while writing about characters that have rich interpersonal relationships. The tragedy of Miyamoto Usagi's vocation as a wandering samurai is that his friends come in and out of his life on a regular basis. Any contact is fleeting, and thus the soap opera often takes a backseat when the story shifts into big epic mode.
"This changes in the latest collection, TRAVELS WITH JOTARO. Longtime readers of USAGI YOJIMBO will know that Jotaro is Usagi's son with his childhood sweetheart, but that only the mother and Usagi are aware of the boy's true parentage. In this volume of the series, Usagi has taken Jotaro on the road with him, giving him a rare opportunity to get to know his child. It comes with a price, though: every day is a struggle with the truth. Should he or should he not change the child's world by revealing their shared secret?"
(more from jamie s. rich)
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
america gone bonkers:
coming very soon to a store near you from alternative comics...
slowpoke: america gone bonkers by jen sorensen
"As seen in the hippest alternative newspapers around the country, it's Xeric Grant-winning cartoonist Jen Sorensen's second collection of her brilliant weekly cartoon Slowpoke. Let Mr. Perkins, Little Gus, and the terminally horny Drooly Julie escort you on a grand tour of the New American Century, exposing the lunacy of our leaders and chaos of our cornball culture. Experience this week in geek chic, meet Spongy the Encephalopathic Politicow, and marvel at the strategic ass-sitting program, all rendered with Sorensen's trademark brand of absurdist humor. Be forewarned: This book is a bulging cornucopia of perversion and subversion, with big laffs to boot!"
112 pages, 8” x 8”, $12.95, ISBN: 1-891867-78-4
October 2004, Diamond Code: JUL04 2537
(five-page preview)
posted by peter! 2:25 AM EST permalink
Monday, October 25, 2004
Hey, check it out. Tom Spurgeon has launched a comics news, reviews, interviews and commentary site called The Comics Reporter!
Looks to have a decidedly international perspective, with a blog element to keep content fresh and current, but with the RESOURCES links it looks like it's being put together for the Pantheoneophytes coming into comics through routes other than the Direct Market, but a diverse enough subject matter to have articles about, like, the X-Men and stuff. Wow, that was a very long sentence. I've only been clicking around for a little bit but The Comics Reporter looks like the kind of site I'll idly refresh at work when I should be doing something else. I mean, already I've learned that there's a Charles Burns book called BAD VIBES coming out in 2005.
And, too, it's Tom Spurgeon, who I think is awesome. So click it, yo.
posted by Matt 2:42 AM EST permalink
Sunday, October 24, 2004
fanta february:
   
available from fantagraphics in february 05...
The Comics Journal Special Edition 2005
edited by Gary Groth
The now-annual Comics Journal Special Edition focuses this time on the phenomenal manga (Japanese comics) invasion. Our cover feature is manga superstar Hideshi Hino, whose 30-year career and inimitable style have put him at the forefront of Japan's horror genre. Our manga section will also essential interviews with or profiles of the most notable artists, including Yoshiharu Tsuge, Surhiro Moruo, Saseo Ono, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, and the undisputed king of manga, Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka! Meanwhile, Vaughn Bodé, the legendary and enduring underground cartoonist (and current inspiration of graffiti artists everywhere) is given the full treatment with an illuminating profile by Bob Levin (The Pirates & the Mouse), a critical essay by Donald Phelps (Reading the Funnies), and exclusive excerpts from his private diaries. Also, Bill Blackbeard profiles the madcap cartoonist Milt Gross. Finally, there's our renowned comics section whose theme this issue is "Seduction," which will include accomplished artists like: Los Bros Hernandez, Carol Lay, Arnold Roth, Rick Altergott, Colleen Coover, Marc Bell, Debbie Drechsler, Spain and Bill Griffith! [180 pp., with color section, 12" x 12" Paperback $22.95; ISBN 1-56097-624-1]
The Clouds Above
by Jordan Crane
This gorgeously-packaged (yet affordable) all-ages fantasy is sure to become an instant classic. On their way through the city to school, Simon and his cat Jack keep taking shortcuts that lead them through fantasy worlds of wooden monsters and insatiable appetites, just for starters. Will they make back home safely? Printed in full-color, this book will be published with covers that have been hand-silkscreened by the author and relief-stamped in the binding process. This will undoubtedly be one of the more handsome and unique packages in recent memory, with a brilliant graphic novel inside that justifies its elegant format. The Clouds Above calls to mind everything from Where the Wild Things Are to The Wizard of Oz to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, with its depiction of a fantastic world that lurks just around the corner from reality and that only children believe exists. [300-page full color 6" x 6" with silkscreen cover $16.95; ISBN 1-56097-627-6]
The R. Crumb Sketchbook vol. 10: June 1975 - February 1977
by Robert Crumb
SIGNED BY THE ARTIST! Covering mid-1975 through early 1977, this volume is the latest and it represents one of the more inquisitive and soul-searching periods in this phenomenal artist's life. These sketchbooks also stand as a monumental existential document. Like every volume in the series, Volume 10 offers the full panoply of a life of perceptions rendered with consummate artistry. [160 pp., B&W, 8 ½" x 11" hardcover $75.00; ISBN 1-56097-625-X]
The Comics Journal #266
This issue of the comics profession's foremost magazine of news and criticism contains two main features: First, a career-spanning interview with one of the most skillful and popular genre writers in comics, Brian Michael Bendis. Bendis discusses his crime-comics beginnings, writing Sam & Twitch for Todd McFarlane, his early crime comics (the graphic novels Jinx, Goldfish, and Torso), his Hollywood satire Fame & Glory and his sordid experiences in Hollywood, his espionage/noir graphic novel Fire, and his break-out into mainstream comics where he rejuvenated Marvel's Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man and created Alias, as well as his creator-owned Powers. Second, this is our annual year-In-Review issue: The Journal's critics revisit 2004, selecting the best comics and graphic novels of the year. We'll also look at manga, webcomics and how the industry itself reacted to the changing marketplace. Add in another 35 page selection of classic comics, no-holds-barred industry commentary and the celebrated news, regular columns, elitist judgments, and snide remarks that have won the magazine countless awards, and you've got another fine issue of the most essential magazine about comics available today: The Comics Journal! [192-page (48 pages in full color, 144 b&w) squarebound $9.95; UPC 7-25274-74114-5-2]
La Perdida #5
by Jessica Abel
Inspired by her own experiences in Mexico City, Jessica Abel's La Perdida follows the south-of-the-border life of expatriate, Carla. Involved with blueblooded, ex-pat slacker Harry and Mexico City native Oscar, tensions in this critically acclaimed series have been building towards this exciting conclusion. Carla finally gets a clue about her friends' true nature and she finally gets back home to Chicago. This final issue is so good, it had to be expanded to 64 pages! [64-page black and white comic $5.95; mature readers]
Deadpan #2
by David Heatley
This is the latest autobiographical work by cartoonist David Heatley, obsessively painted in gouache paint. It contains: nine new, bizarre and disturbing dream comics; the 5-page 'Portrait of My Dad,' which ran in McSweeney's #13 - an intimate series of vignettes highlighting the quirky and moving relationship between the author and his father; and 'My Sexual History', a 15 page account of Heatley's entire sexual history starting in Kindergarden and ending in the present. Told in a loose, autobiographical "sketchbook" style, it is Heatley's most revealing and personal work to date. This is David Heatley's first comic published by Fantagraphics Books. [32-page full-color comic o $5.95; mature readers]
plus from eros: Alraune #8 by Rochus Hahn & Tony Greis, Housewives at Play #13 by Rebecca, Here Come the Lovejoys in Color by Tony Libido, Dildo #8, and Sex Warrior Isane XXX #3 by Okawari.
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