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Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

Asterios Polyp By David Mazzucchelli Pantheon At some point we all become ambassadors—to our parents, to our friends, to strangers we meet at parties. We give recommendations and lend out worn copies with bent spines. We attempt to justify our passions as more than simple guilty pleasures. There is no guilt here. This is art. Few statements in this [...]

Johnny Hiro by Fred Chao

Johnny Hiro By Fred Chao Adhouse Books On a whole few entire mediums have been forced to fight as uphill a battle for legitimacy as sequential art. The past quarter-century has seen a number of breakthroughs in the battle, of course, with graphic novels of various stripes racking up lauds from academics and practitioners of high art and [...]

The Cross Hatch Dispatch 7/1/09

_ [Above, Mara Lander's line-up. Below, the Dispatch's.] Rob Clough does a round-up of sweet mini comics he scooped at Forbidden Planet NYC.  Jaime Hernandez will be participating in Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) fundraising at Comic Con with an autograph card and original art auction. (ComicList)  Indie comic artist, confection aficionado and all-around awesome chick Mara Lander [...]

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06.03.2009
This week's topic is:
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Anita Kunz: Order of Canada

Congratulations to illustrator Anita Kunz, whose pointed visual statements have graced The New Yorker, Time, and other top publications, for being appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. According to the official post, she gets this award for “For her contributions as an illustrator whose insightful works have graced publications around the world.” This [...]

Watch: The Astronomer’s Dream, a short animated film by Malcom Sutherland

Malcolm Sutherland has posted a ton of his great animated films to Vimeo. Including the full version of his latest film - The Astronomer’s Dream (previously) - which you can watch above. His stuff is full of beautiful, surreal, hilarious dreamscapes. The man is also ridiculously prolific - it’s kind of annoying. Check out another [...]

Abner Graboff

Who was Abner Graboff? I had no idea. So, I decided to find out on my own. Artist, illustrator & designer with a career that spanned several decades, from the 1940’s to the 80’s, Abner was best known for creating some of the most ingenious and vibrant children’s books during the mid-century era. But you’d never [...]

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"The Cresting Wave: San Francisco Underground Comix Experience": 7/10-8/22, 2009

Anyone have a spare airline or train ticket to SF? Looks like a great show. Thanks to ComicsDC's Mike Rhode for this info!FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Dan Fogel, comixpr[at]comcast.net

The Cresting Wave:
The San Francisco Underground Comix Experience
July 10 — August 22, 2009
Electric Works
130 8th Street, San Francisco, CA
www.sfelectricworks.com // 415 626 5496

Electric Works is pleased to present "The Cresting Wave: The San Francisco Underground Comix Experience," a group exhibition featuring underground comix artists from San Francisco, from the mid-'60's to the late '80's. Artists included are Mark Bode, Vaughn Bode, Guy Colwell, R. Crumb, Jay Kinney, Paul Mavrides, Dan O'Neill, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Larry Todd, Randy Vogel, and S. Clay Wilson. Culling work from private collectors and the artists themselves, guest curator, Underground Comix writer, publisher and historian Dan Fogel has amassed important work from each artist that spans personal drawings, well-known comix pieces, including covers and original comps, as well as other rare ephemera from the heyday of the San Francisco scene.

San Francisco was the birthplace of the underground comix scene in the mid 1960's: nowhere else on the planet was there such an concentration of talent, vision, and production. In a relatively short time, the artists who coalesced in the Bay Area changed the face of popular culture forever. Taking on issues of politics, race, sexuality, drugs, counterculture of the time, and intellectual property, these artists were able to push the bounds of propriety, "decency" and imagery more drastically than in any other medium of the era.

Complementing the robust gallery show, Electric Works will feature many other important pieces by the artist which will be available for viewing during the course of the exhibition in our flat files. In addition, Electric Works will be publishing limited edition prints, mini-prints, and a collaborative "jam" print featuring many of the artists in the exhibition, proceeds of which will benefit the S. Clay Wilson Special Needs Trust, benefiting their friend, who is recovering from serious injuries.
"Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. ...
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
-- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, 1971.
Postcard graphic:
Jay Kinney, "Ronald's Rampage" (image for City Magazine), 1974
17 1/2 x 13". Ink, pencil, contact film on bristol board.
 

“Fragment” – an unfinished pitch

[Ben Hutchings, Australia:] A while back, before I had two rockin’ regular comic jobs I was playing around with a couple of ideas. This is a page from an unfinished pitch for a teenage boy’s magazine. It doesn’t really show that the strip is a sci-fi action chase story, but it is nicely drawn I think!I was so excited about this, as it’s an idea I came up with in college 17 years ago, and it reflects the exact comic attitude and imagination I had at that age.

I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome this comic would be. My vision of the future is the best. Not a computer or holographic user interface in sight – just Australia as it is, but exaggerated by 250%, and with heavily armed postal vans, bus chases, destruction and flying eye-ball ships manned by renegade freak convicts from the moons of Jupiter. Maybe after Stinky 10 I will turn my attention to this. I really have to restrain myself from going on and on about it, and telling you why it’s so awesome. Why won’t you believe me.

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Summer/Winter reading list

Summer/Winter reading list: The fine Canadian comics blog Sequential is posting Summer Reading Lists by various comics folks, and my one is here. Of course, it’s winter down here in New Zealand, but then I actually…

orange flower stalker

orange flower stalker:










I drew this picture whilst thinking “Summer, now wouldn’t that be nice.

Thumos!

Thumos!:


Michela Da Sacco ci scrive:

Comincio a pubblicare oggi il webcomic a episodi Thumos, diviso in capitoli da una dozzina di “tavole” l’uno. Le tavole avranno cadenza settimanale e saranno leggibili sul mio blog, su Hoffnung e sulla mia pagina di Deviant ART.
La storia è di Mattia Bulgarelli, disegni della sottoscritta.
Ci piacerebbe sapere che ve ne pare… adesso o prossimamente.”

E allora…Thumos!!!Aspettiamo con ansia le prossime fantastiche puntate…
in bocca al lupo dalle tue Sorelloske!!!

New page - The American Dream

New page - The American Dream:
Click to go to new page

Click to go to new page


Apologies for the hiatus, but it’s over now. In the meantime, I made the largest drawing I’ve ever done (10m x 1.5m), illustrated a billboard, and some other…

thinky chops

thinky chops:











Wintery short days.

digital entertainment

digital entertainment:

digital entertainment

^
goofing off again, drew some faces. then scanned into photoshop and tried the paintbrush. i can see why people like painting digitally, it’s fun. i rarely venture away from flat colors, unless i have a real brush in hand.


i try not to spend time drawing “pretty” things for a lot of reasons, but sometimes it’s hard not to. i’ll doodle stuff out until i’m done goofing off and my mind has settled down then i can work on stuff that’s meaningful to me.

teen titans

things to look at



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Nuovo fumetto di Fedora!

Nuovo fumetto di Fedora!:




La nostra Fedora, alias Federica Zancato, che trovate anche qui


http://joliet82.deviantart.com/

oltre ad essere una già brava illustratrice, si cimenta…

Try: http://blog.comicslifestyle.com for more....

Festival STRASBULLES 2009

[From INSTITUT PACÔME:] Bonjour à tous,

affiche_accueil Strasbulles

STRASBULLES 2009, le festival européen de la bande dessinée deuxième édition a ouvert ses portes lundi 22 juin. Durant toute la semaine, des rencontres en librairies, des expositions, des performances, des dédicaces sont au programme.
Détail du programme sur http://strasbulles.fr/index.php?section=Programme
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Cette année, le parrain du festival est Émile BRAVO, auteur de "LES ÉPATANTES AVENTURES DE JULES", de SPIROU, LE JOURNAL D'UN INGÉNU", de "LES SEPT OURS NAINS", et tant d'autres choses. La particularité de cet auteur est d'officier dans une bande dessinée qui se veut grand public, sans oublier de rester intelligente. Un véritable travail d'auteur qui représente bien l'objectif de notre tout jeune festival.
Quelques infos sur Émile Bravo http://strasbulles.fr/index.php?section=Parrain
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Ce festival se veut un carrefour de toutes les Bandes Dessinées, Micro-Édition et Fanzine compris, ouvert sur la bande dessinée européenne. Un coup d'œil sur l'ensemble des auteurs présents au festival permet d'appréhender l'étendue de la bande dessinée actuelle (http://strasbulles.fr/index.php?section=Auteurs).
Pour la première édition, l'espace Micro-Édition proposait au public de découvrir cette face trop souvent ignorée de la création en bande dessinée contemporaine. L'espace était riche de 5 stands. En effet, les collectifs strasbourgeois organisateur de l'espace, à savoir LE COLLECTIF TROGLODYTE http://www.numo.fr et L'INSTITUT PACÔME accueillaient également MISMA, collectif toulousain, LES TAUPES DE L'ESPACE, rennais, et les collectifs Strasbourgeois.
Pour cette édition, l'espace Micro-Édition s'en trouve fort grandi. Car en plus de l'Institut Pacôme, Misma et Les Taupes de L'Espace, seront présents :
-HOOCHIE COOCHIE, de Paris
-HABEAS CORPUS, de Belgique
-STRAPAZIN, PLUS -PLUS et TWO FAST COLOR, Allemagne et Suisse
-Ainsi que les collectifs strasbourgeois, dont ICINORI .
3 d'entre eux proposent des expositions :
-STRAPAZIN, une exposition rétrospective sur leur incroyable longévité.
-ICINORI, sur leur travail tout en sérigraphie et en finesse.
-HOOCHIE COOCHIE, une exposition mettant à l'honneur les "upside-down" de Gustav Verbeek, bande dessinée se lisant deux fois, une fois normalement, et une fois en retournant la planche le tête en bas.
Bref, Strasbulles se positionne bel et bien comme un festival mettant en avant la bande dessinée créative.
Infos espace Micro-Édition

L'espace Micro-Édition a initié l'an dernier LA GAZETTE DU FESTIVAL, qui pour des raisons techniques n'a pas pu voir le jour. cette année, celle-ci reprend du poil de la bête en proposant une gazette réalisée, reproduite et diffusée sur place, dans la bonne tradition du fanzinat. Au menu : Interview, dessins originaux, et bien des surprises.

PERFORMANCES :
-Jeudi, de 15h à 18h, Sketchcrawl. Parcours-croquis dans la ville de Strasbourg. Tout le monde est le bienvenu. Départ au guichet d'accueil STRASBULLES à la gare de Strasbourg.
-Vendredi, de 13h à 18h, Performance Créative. Les auteurs participants réaliseront en quelques heures une oeuvre originale de 2 ou 3 planches à partir d’un élément scénaristique ou graphique choisi en toute liberté dans une planche de l’œuvre d’EMILE BRAVO, parrain de STRASBULLES. Le ton et le style graphique restent au choix de chaque participant. Accès libre au public à partir de 15h00. Lieu : Médiathèque A. Malraux, 1, Presqu’île André Malraux, 67076 Strasbourg.
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CONCENTRÉ sur le week-end du 27 et 28 juin, les rencontres avec les auteurs se feront de manière conviviales. Lors du salon, venez faire un tour à l'espace enfant, adulte, détente, sans oublier les nombreuses expositions dans l'ensemble de la ville. N'oublions pas également l'espace Comics et l'espace Bouquiniste. On peut aussi se restaurer sur place, ce qui est bien pratique en cas de défaillance hypoglycémique !
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Toutes les informations sur http://strasbulles.fr/
Venez nombreux.

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Carousel Slideshow: Gabrielle Bell, Michael Kupperman, Robert Sikoryak


Robert Sikoryak: We're playing with two awesome bands and Carousel, a multimedia cartoonists performance group. i know, i don't really understand it either, but it sounds amazing.

The Walking Hellos @ Union Pool 6/24
with Pretendo (ex-/present Enon, Skeleton Key, Mono Puff, Morricone Youth) Gold Streets, and Carousel (live cartoon performance art featuring Gabrielle Bell (Cecil and Jordan); Michael Kupperman (Cartoon Network's Adult Swim); R. Sikoryak (Masterpiece Comics))

Wednesday, June 24, 8pm
Union Pool - Union Ave corner Meeker Ave
Subway: L Train (Lorimer St.) / G Train (Metropolitan Ave.)
cover: $8
http://www.myspace.com/unionpool

Pretendo http://myspace.com/pretendo - 8pm
The Walking Hellos http://myspace.com/walkinghellos - 9pm
Gold Streets http://myspace.com/goldstreets - 10pm
Carousel (emceeing between sets)

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The Example - Tom Taylor, Colin Wilson

When Melbourne playwright Tom Taylor decided he wanted to turn his 2005 short play The Example into a graphic novel, he got short shrift from illustrators he sought to contact on an internet forum. They were wary of getting involved with a speculative project. Taylor finally got a sympathetic response from artist Colin Wilson. It was stroke of luck. Wilson, an illustrator with more than 30 years of experience, has worked on cult offerings such as anti-hero Judge Dredd from British comic 2000 AD, Star Wars comics and French detective fiction. Finding an artist with a style to match the content is not easy, says Taylor, 34, a long-time devotee of speech bubbles and the picture grid. "With comics you're trying to create a full story and you can't do a really deep, philosophical, hard-hitting piece with a guy who draws a predominantly cartoony style; it doesn't work if it's Daffy Duck."

DRGBLZ: DRGBLZ IN LOWLIFE COMICZ?!!

D'Israeli, DRGBLZ . That's all you need, now make with the clicking.

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Printing comics: doing the math.

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Ed Piskor's varied assemblage of comics including some 'how to' stories on hacking and phone phreaking.

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Shadowline’s online comic section has an eclectic selection that’s culled from a variety of online sources. The best known is probably Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder series, one of the earliest comics to abandon monthly print serialization for online serialization followed by printing the graphic novels as they’re completed. Finder’s a critical favorite and immediately gives the site some street cred. Platinum Grit is an Australian web comic with a sporadic print history.

The novel in a speech balloon-Review-Sunday Specials-Opinion-The Times of India

Kari, Amruta Patil's story of an androgynous adwoman working in Mumbai, has unobtrusively notched up a few points for the genre in India by selling around 3,500 copies, a figure that publisher Harper Collins says, is "not bad". Patil follows in the footsteps of Orijit Sen, who wrote River Of Stories, the first graphic novel in India in 1994 and Sarnath Banerjee whose 2004 Corridor was widely marketed by Penguin India as India's first graphic novel.

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