Thoughts on some comics:
I noticed Becky Cloonan’s work a while back, while trawling around on DeviantArt. It took some hunting, but I eventually found myself a copy of East Coast Rising - her story about pirates off the Jersey shore after the sea level has risen enough to drown most of what is currently coastal [...]
Recommended: Kukuburi. Bright colors, bold outlines, cartoony… totally not my thing, and yet, I’m really liking it. Nice, Ramon!
Journalista’s Dirk Deppy interviewed:
What really makes me want to die? The way industry true-believers assume that comics not featuring capes and tights are seen as diversions that “hurt comics,” and that different and conflicting senses of aesthetics are some sort of personal attack. I realize that this contradicts the nonchalance that I affected in the [...]
Available for pre-order at amazon. I think my photo choice was a bit better.
(I wonder if it’ll sell under this title in Singapore?)
The AV Club’s interview with Chris Onstad:
AVC: Can you get lost in your own head doing a job like this, working at home all day long?
CO: Oh, I’ve gone through periods where I’ve totally lost perspective on life. I’ve gone through mini-Brian Wilson periods, where I won’t answer the phone for like weeks at a [...]
A Paul Pope tribute to Ranxerox:
Love Ranxerox even if it is way too violent and gross for its own good.
Co-blogger JMD was a Ranxerox fan, if I recall (nothing’s too gross for him!). Slightly related, here’s a Liberatore tribute to Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese:
…pretty much making Pope’s point.
DJ Cockney:
I also have a music video coming out which the record company has called “Cained”. This is a compilation of Chill music from my vast collection. I have to confess that I am a secret disc jockey and have been making tapes and CDs for myself and my friends for over 40 years.
My record [...]
Guy designs handbags using brass knuckles and shaped like submachine guns. He he then gives them to hot chicks wearing Stahlhelm or prancing around in old Russian subs.
Nice!
Might not be safe for work depending where you work. No nudity.
Do they only come in black? I mean, how’s an Israeli teen supposed to accessorize?
(subject line - beep beep!)
So, the other day I was talking to some folks who mentioned they didn’t particularly want to go to any comic conventions (I’m being deliberately vague here). For the life of me, I can’t understand why:
On Wednesday, the San Diego International Comic Con starts. Expect announcements of projects, exclusives, signing and deals all over the [...]
Paul Pope dreams:
Dreamt I was sitting at a place called Deacon Brodie’s waiting for a friend who goes there a lot and I felt really happy. It was a nice evening, the sun was setting, 46th street in the summertime.
My phone buzzes–I have a text msg. I open the flap to read this.
In the [...]
I recently read Mike Carey’s first novel - I thought it was pretty good, despite being a bit difficult to slog though for having been more richly imagined and described than anything I’ve ever read, and I’m thinking I’ll snag his next one from Amazon UK rather than wait for it to be released here. [...]
It’s been too long since I’ve posted about any “pixie jailbait” art, so: definitely go read Perils of the Uncommon Skyway.
Trawling Wikipedia, I find:
Early post-PiL years
Soon after leaving PiL, Wobble started his solo career [...] However, his critical stance towards the commercialization of the music industry, compounded by heavy drinking led to his abandoning music for a short period in the mid eighties. By 1986 he was clean and sober. He then worked a variety [...]
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Via the QM, Golden Age Comic Book Stories, which includes some posts (photos above from this one) of very very cool work by Irish Arts & Crafts illustrator Harry Clarke:
The son of a craftsman, Joshua Clarke, Clarke the younger was exposed to art (and in particular Art Nouveau) at an [...]
If you’ve ever spent any time looking at artists’ websites (maybe because you occasionally follow links from Drawn! or something), these observations will be familiar:
In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of [...]
Paul Pope is doing a limited edition exclusive THB story, to be published by AdHouse Press (who will also be publishing his PulpHope, the Art of Paul Pope in July), that will only be given away at the San Diego Comic Con.
Fuck!
This is interesting:
And like so many of Pope’s publications, the show exclusive will include [...]
Reading the introduction to a compilation volume of Modesty Blaise strips a couple of weeks ago, I learned that back in the day, syndicated cartoonists were basically rock stars: big bucks, a bunch of young hopefuls to do half their work for them, fancy sports cars, globe trotting vacations, etc. Must be true - check [...]