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Posted on June 6, 2016June 15, 2016

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06/27/2016

Juan FernándezJune 27, 2016NewsJuan here with: Warren Craghead’s COLONIALISM; Rowhouse Auction June 26-July 2; Simon Hanselmann interviewed; Vanesa Del Rey art available; Mari Naomi shares Sorese’s CURVEBALL; Ethical Sloth #6 submission deadline approaches;John Martz’ BE GOOD; LINE: AN ART STUDY. ————————————————————————————————— Featured Comics: Colonialism – Warren Craghead I’m happy to announce that we are featuring Warren Craghead III’s Colonialism on the site this week. Made in 2013 by Warren Craghead for Comics Workbook, Colonialism is a series of wild little one page comics. Poetic comics that mix observational drawings and notes with reflections, while dancing in a playful blend of digital and analogue drawing. ————————————————————————————————— New Private Rowhouse Auction We have a new private auction up at auction.comicsworkbook.com. email Frank Santoro at santoroschoolATgmail for a password, if you don’t already have one. If you already have a password, it is the same from last week. All funds go to helping keep the lights on and further developing the school. note: Connor Willumsen is offering commission sketches. ————————————————————————————————— Elsewhere: “I’m Love and Rockets-ing this shit” – Simon Hanselmann Alex Dueben interviews Simon Hanselmann over on The Beat. Great questions, great answers. Do yourself a favor and dig in. Dueben: You vary the design of your pages but you always work in a grid. What do you like about working that way? What do you think that enables you to do? Hanselmann: I’m just all about pacing. I want the reader to be able to process the information as fast as possible for a smooth read. This is also why I work in color, I think the color codifies everything and makes it easier for the brain to decipher. I’ve thought about experimenting with “crazy” layouts but I just don’t see the point. It wouldn’t serve the work. ————————————————————————————————— How to Draw Comics: the Vanesa Del Rey Way Cadence Comic Art is selling all of Vanesa Del Rey’s inked pages from available for Spider-Women Alpha (Marvel Comics). Support Vanesa and snatch ’em up while you can! If you’re looking to buy comics pages from a contemporary cartoonist, look no further. Vanesa’s a killer and her art is exquisite. ————————————————————————————————— Curveball: Excerpt Mari Naomi shares an excerpt of Jeremy Sorese‘s queer sci-fi graphic novel, Curveball, over on PEN America. If you have not yet been able to get your hands on Sorese’s work, here’s your chance to see how his narration and poetics intertwine. Sorese’s debut is juicy stuff! ————————————————————————————————— Ethical Sloth #6 3 days left to take part in the next issue of Ethical Sloth. Ethical Sloth is a zine of queer* comic artists for other queer* comic artists and everybody else. Like many other zines, this zine is completely d.i.y., so there‘s no money_reward in for you, but being part of this new rad & fierce comic-zine! And you‘ll get free issues and the master-print, if you want to print‘n‘sell your own copies. Sounds perfect? The deadline for the sixth issue»Breakups And Downs« is July 1, 2016. Specifications are: A5, comic and_or illustration. Language: any. Topic: »Breakups And Downs«. Technical stuff: A5, 300dpi, b/w (please leave a white border) For more info reach out to: Dana »Dossie« Moustache & Yori »Janet« Gagarim: ethical.sloth@gmail.com ————————————————————————————————— Be Good John Martz presents his short story, Be Good, online. It’s a good one. Design, fragile egos and tacos come together for some good old fashioned hyucks. ————————————————————————————————— Thin Line, Thick line, Strong line, Feeble Line Line: An Art Study by Edmund J. Sullivan, originally published in 1922, covers the basics of drawing using only line: drawing materials, types of line, freehand drawing, drawing solid objects in line, perspective, shadows and figure drawing. It’s online at archive.org for you to bury your nose in. Go forth and take what you need! Written by Edmund J. Sullivan Line: An Art Study merges the traditional nineteenth-century style of illustration with elements of Art Nouveau, begins by introducing readers to the freehand drawing of abstract lines and advances to the freehand drawing of natural forms, consisting mainly of plane surfaces or single lines. Subsequent chapters illustrate and discuss representations of the third and fourth dimensions, the picture plane, formal perspective, and the drawing of solid objects, including their depiction in shade and shadow, and their modelling. Additional topics include shadows, reflections, and aerial perspective as well as figure drawing. ————————————————————————————————— ’til next time, Juan Share this page: [...]

12/19/2016

Juan FernándezDecember 19, 2016NewsJuan here with PIX 2017, Art Happens on PCTV21, comics and image related news that’s caught my eye and of course the inimitable Suzy and Cecil. ————————————————————————————————— Feast your eyes on the first official PIX 2017 Poster, by PIX 2017 special guest, Lale Westvind. Damn. PIX is pleased to announce it’s first confirmed guest at PIX 2017 – Lale Westvind! Lale is a beacon of self-publishing and a veteran of small press comics. She has self published many small batch comics, among them Titus and the Cyber Sun, Hot Dog Beach, Now and Here, Double Head Tour, and the just released Yazar and Arkadas. Her stunning multicolor risograph, Hax, published by Breakdown Press in the UK, was one of the standout releases of 2016. Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies, most notably the latest Kramers Ergot (#9). And, she has graced PIX 2017 with its first graphic, which will soon be posted here. Watch for it! ————————————————————————————————— Staying with the local Pittsburgh news, I hopped on the airwaves on PCTV21 to talk comics with Christiane Leach and Jennifer Saffron on Art Happens. We talked about what I’m talking about all the time with Frank and Sally here at the Rowhouse. It was good to get all this talk outta the house. If you want to know what it’s like to talk with me in person, here’s a taste. I can’t tell you how nice it is to have conversations with comics with people who are willing to play ball and to see comics as a vital intersection of the arts. Christiane and Jennifer are amazing hosts, always ready to get their hands dirty with whatever is on hand. It’s great to bring to the world these ideas that have been instilled in me by Frank Santoro, Bill Boichel via BEM, Copacetic Comics and Comics Workbook. I’d be nowhere without these guys. Grab something warm and sit down with us. Treat it like a podcast while you work. ————————————————————————————————— My buddy Em DeMarco, here in Pittsburgh, has put out a call for a comic that she’s making about hate-related incidents post-election. I want to pass the mic on over to her: *IF* you’ve experienced verbal or other forms of harassment since Nov. 8th: I’m gathering stories for a nonfiction comic about hate-related incidents that have happened since the election in Western Pennsylvania. I’d like to hear stories of people who feel like they’ve been targeted in any way because of their (real or perceived) race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, or religion. *** IF you feel comfortable sharing your story *** private message me, or email me at emcorp.works@gmail.com. Feel free to share this with friends or family who you think might be interested in speaking with me. Thank you, Em DeMarco ————————————————————————————————— when you can’t work harder, work smarter – for real though <3 ————————————————————————————————— Comics and news that’ve caught my eye: A look at the wonders of SAMPLERMAN. Yvan Guillo is Samplerman. Dig into his collage comics here on HyperAllergic. Underground Art Comics in China. VOLCAN – I can’t afford to get my hands on this, BUT I can learn a lot by looking at what Alexis Beaculair has posted online! Check out these high quality photos of Lagon Revue’s juicy publication, VOLCAN. A memory of when the internet was young. Check out this photo from back in 1973 to see, in a way that is now impossible, what the internet used to look like… ————————————————————————————————— From Comics Workbook: Suzy and Cecil – 12-19-2016 – by Gabriella Tito We are accepting applications for the Winter Semester of the Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers right up until Dec. 28th 2016. Course starts Dec. 29th! 8 weeks – 500 bux – the best comics education for your money. Full details and how to apply HERE. ————————————————————————————————— until next time! juan Share this page: [...]

09/07/2016

Juan FernándezSeptember 7, 2016los Cómics / NewsJuan con tus noticias sobre los cómics en Latinoamérica Y España! Entreviñetas 2016, un preview de Tokio Zombie, de Yusaku Hanakuma;Mireia Pérez reseña Grandes Preguntas de Anders Nilsen;Tetas Tristes – Convocatoria de Septiembre; el nuevo libro de Connor Willumsen, Portraits. ————————————————————————————————— Felicitaciones a TODOS los que crearon y sometieron sus cómics al concurso concurso de composición de este año ! Los Resultados: Primer Lugar– $500 premio en efectivo : Cameron Nicholson – For a Lack of Better Words Segundo Lugar – $250 en crédito a Copacetic Comics: Shee Phon – I Know It’s Not About Me, But I Don’t Want To Die Tercer Lugar – $100 en crédito a Copacetic Comics: Cameron Arthur – Oasis Mención de Honor – $50 en crédito a Big Planet Comics: Lisa Wilkinson – The Last Time I Saw Tate; Janne Marie Dauer – Blame It On the Night Moves; Luke Howard – Extragalactic; Niall Breen – Śūnyatā Premio Especial– $25 en crédito a Copacetic Comics: Lina Madöry – Reflection No Prize Shout Out!: Jillian Fleck – I Got A Job; Phillip Dokes – Falling Felictationes a los ganadores y a todos que compitieron. ————————————————————————————————— Entreviñetas 2016 ¡Pronto comienza la séptima temporada de Entreviñetas en Colombia! El #FestivalEntreviñetas2016 tendrá a Bogotá y Medellín como sedes. Preparate y tomate un paseo visual por los invitados al Festial 2016. Brecht Vandenbroucke (Bélgica), Michael DeForge (Canadá), Olivier Kugler (Alemania), Elenio Pico (Argentina), Aidan Koch (Estados Unidos), Zane Zlemeša (Letonia), Inés Estrada (México), Diana Ojeda (Colombia), Sole Otero (Argentina), Pablo Guerra (Colombia), Marco Tóxico (Bolivia), Hernán Sansone (Argentina), Olea (Chile), Phoebe Gloeckner (Estados Unidos), Benjamin Dix (Reino Unido), ICINORI (Francia), Alexandra Zsigmond (Estados Unidos), Puño (España), Miguel Gallardo (España), Cabizbaja (Colombia), David Avend (Colombia), Jean Paul Zapata (Colombia) Si el cómic es lo que te apasiona y vives en Latinoamérica, no se lo pueden perder! ————————————————————————————————— Tokio Zombie Heta Uma en España! Podeis leer las primeras páginas de Tokio Zombie, de Yusaku Hanakuma, en exclusiva en Canino Mag. Tokyo Zombie es el nuevo lanzamiento de la editorial de tebeos española más asilvestrada e inclasificable del panorama nacional, Autsaider Comics. El principal representante del estilo de manga heta-uma (malo pero bueno), Yusaku Hanakuma, presenta su obra más popular (fue llevada al cine en 2005), rebosante de zombis, sangre y sexo incorrecto. Tenemos el primer capítulo en exclusiva para ti. ————————————————————————————————— Gorriones y Conejos Mireia Pérez nos ofrece su reseña de la obra maestral de Anders Nilsen, Grandes Preguntas (Fulgencio Pimentel, 2011) en forma vlog. Una de las más grandes obras de la literatura universal. “Grandes Preguntas” de Anders Nilsen. También hablo sobre “Watership Down” de Richard Adams. AQUÍ podéis leer un artículo que escribí sobre el tema donde desarrollo un poco más su semenjanzas. ————————————————————————————————— Tetas Tristes – Convocatoria de Septiembre Si alguna vez has deseado crear alguna obra autobiografica, colectivo de cómics feminista, Tetas Tristes les presentan la oportunidad! El póder lo encontramos escribiendo, y dibujando. A dibujar chicas! Hola, la nueva convocatoria para el mes de Septiembre es dibujar un cómic con cosas que te de #vergüenza hacer en la realidad. Muchas veces una/e se limita a “”dejarse ser”“ tal cual es por vergüenza o pena, como le dicen en México. Las invitamos a dibujar esas cosas vergonzosas que hacemos por torpes o no hacemos por parecer finas/elegantes jajaja Rompamos las reglas. Envía tus aportes a tetastristes@gmail.com ————————————————————————————————— Llego la Melancolía La obra más reciente de Simon Hanselmann, Melancolía ya esta disponible en España! Esto es, por supuesta gracias a la editorial, Fulgencio Pimentel. Puedes aprender un poquito mas sobre esta nueva entrada en su serie de antihumor, Megg, Mogg y Buho en http://www.fulgenciopimentel.com/. Melancolía es la última entrega de la serie de antihumor de la década y Simon Hanselmann la estrella del nuevo cómic independiente internacional. Quienes disfrutaron de Hechizo total, Bahía de San Búho o Hail Satan! ya pueden prepararse para una descarga aún mayor de abulia, hastío y desesperación. Porque Melancolía es el “libro negro” de Simon Hanselmann. Lidiar con la depresión sin más aliados que el abuso de estupefacientes, la comida basura, una acuciante frustración sexual y un mando a distancia solo puede convertir la vida en una fiesta. ————————————————————————————————— Portraits – Connor Willumsen. Este libro de 16 páginas bellamente impreso (por WestCan – que también imprimio el Manual de la Escuela Santoro) de retratos del gran Connor Willumsen está disponible para pre-pedido. De momento, sólo ofrecemos pre-pedidos para los Estados Unidos. Ofreceremos pre -pedidos para pedidos fuera de EEUU después de que mandemos el libro a los impresores. Dalé click AQUI para pedir tu pre-order! http://auction.comicsworkbook.com/2016/08/18/portraits-by-connor-willumsen-pre-order/ ————————————————————————————————— hasta la proxima! 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05/19/2017

Sally IngrahamMay 18, 2017NewsSally here with new comics coming from Glynnis Fawkes, and Vanesa R. Del Rey and Jordie Bellaire – plus work from Gabrielle Bell, Keiler Roberts, Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, and more! ————————————————————————————————— Image Comics officially announced a new ongoing series called Redlands – it is made by “Eisner award-winning Jordie Bellaire (PRETTY DEADLY, Vision, Batman) and critically-acclaimed Vanesa R. del Rey (ZERO, Scarlet Witch, Constantine)“, and will come out in August. It’s going to be “witchy”, dark, and a “sick, weird love letter to Stephen King, Florida and Riot Grrrls everywhere but ultimately, hate mail for everything else,” according to Jordie Bellaire. More from the announcement HERE. Earlier this month Vanesa and Jordie spoke to Entertainment about the series, a story that Jordie has been developing for years and one that Vanesa was immediately attracted to. Witches in Florida – what could be weirder and more wonderful? Jordie first had the idea in college, but shelved it for a number of years: “I’m glad I waited because as each year passed, I grew as a person and the story changed as I became angrier and more passionate about things that were important to me. One day it clicked as I wondered what could change the things that upset me: What about the archetype female figure, the witch, could she change things? Witches taking over a town and assuming roles of actual influence really frightened me. And as the world has changed so much since November 2016, I find myself getting even darker with the material, and in a horrible way it makes even more sense now. The idea of corruption and monsters in places of power seems more believable than ever… Regarding art, I just knew Vanesa would be a great fit for this book. She has a relentless and visceral style that really gets under your skin and stays there.“ The setting is perfect, as Jordie grew up there and Vanesa currently lives in Florida. As Vanesa says: “Florida is the exemplification of juxtaposition. It is a place where death and decay live together with growth and bloom. Where the young and old come to have fun in the sun. I wanted to work on something that was closer to home, someplace I could relate to better. I’ve been living in South Florida for over a decade now and I still don’t know it well. I want this project to be a chance for me to understand a little more, and a chance to bring readers into this strange world.“ Impatient, tired, ancient witches who are sick of the patriarchy decide to take over the local government and make some real changes – I can’t wait for this comic! Read more about it HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Glynnis Fawkes has announced a new comic – Reign of Crumbs, coming from Kilgore Books this spring. Some of the strips appeared on Mutha Magazine over the past year or so, and they all deal with “kids’ antics and bedtime conversations“. ————————————————————————————————— Gabrielle Bell has a comic in The New Yorker called 1-800-CATS – read the rest of it HERE. Keep an eye out for her new comic Everything is Flammable, coming June 6th 2017 from Uncivilized Books. ————————————————————————————————— Rosemary Valero-O’Connell spoke to Vice Money about being one of the few incredibly lucky cartoonists who can currently support herself by drawing comics. She lives cheaply in Minneapolis with a mess of roommates, mixes an almost un-manageable amount of freelance work with a full-time comics project she is working on with Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me), and realizes that she is living the dream – and that it may not last forever. The terrors and joys of the artist’s life. Watch the short video HERE. Check out more of Rosemary’s work on her website and via her Patreon. ————————————————————————————————— Stuff and Nonsense There’s a great article in The Globe and Mail about Annie Koyama‘s journey to becoming one the world’s most celebrated comics publishers – check it out. Heidi MacDonald is taking The Comics Beat to Havana for C3 (Comic Creators Conference) Cuba edition – can I please come too?? More about Cuba’s first Comic Con HERE. There is an excerpt from Keiler Roberts‘ Sunburning (Koyama Press 2017) on Illustrated PEN, thanks to guest editor Rob Kirby – read it HERE. The Comics Beat has a roundup of Rebecca Roher‘s comics as part of their “A Year of Free Comics” series – HERE. Rebecca recently won the Doug Wright Award for her graphic novel Bird in a Cage. Irene Velentzas reviews Jillian Tamaki‘s Boundless for The Comics Journal, while Rachel Davies reviews Sarah Ferrick‘s Yours. ————————————————————————————————— Take thee Santoro Correspondence Course for Comic Book Makers this summer! More details HERE. ————————————————————————————————— Blinkers – 5-19-2017 – by Jack Brougham ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 5-19-2017 – by Sally Ingraham Share this page: [...]

06/08/2018

Sally IngrahamJune 7, 2018NewsSally here with comics and news from Gabrielle Bell, GG, Liana Finck, Summer Pierre, Paula Puiupo, and more! ———————————————————————————— I missed a week of internet due to traveling in New Mexico without a computer, but the rest of the world didn’t skip a beat so there are a ton of comics and news bites to share with you good folks as you head into your weekend. Let’s dig in! Gabrielle Bell has a comic up on The New Yorker titled That’s What I Get for Trying to Find Love on Tinder. See the whole thing HERE. Speaking of Liana Finck, she also has a recent comic on The New Yorker – Meet the Commenters! – which details the cool stuff people say to her when she posts her autobio comics online… HERE. ———————————————————————————— It’s been a minute since I checked out the 4Panel Project – above is a recent one by GG. In the last few weeks alone there have also been comics by Julia Wertz, Hannah K. Lee, Keiler Roberts, and Daryl Seitchik. ———————————————————————————— Summer Pierre has a busy blog where she posts a lot of her comics – above is the latest in her series Paper Pencil Life. Check out more comics HERE. She has also been working on the series of haiku comics – her most recent one (#38 out of 50 she has planned) is not yet on the blog, but you can catch it on Summer’s Instagram – HERE. ———————————————————————————— Paula Puiupo has a new comic out called Gume – see a spread from it above, and learn more about it HERE. Paula recently updated and redid her whole website, so be sure to check it out and see a lot more of her work. Paula Puiupo is originally from Lisbon, and now lives and works in São Paulo. ———————————————————————————— Nnedi Okorafor is going to continue writing for comics, teaming up with artist Tana Ford once again on a new 4-part series coming from Dark Horse’s Berger Books imprint, titled LaGuardia. More details are available at The Comics Beat – HERE. ———————————————————————————— After Dinner Mints Fiona Smyth‘s new collection Somnambulance (from Koyama Press, 2018) is reviewed at Four Color Apocalypse, and The Toronto Star. The collaboration between Anne Elizabeth Moore and Melissa Mendes is examined by Alex Dueben on The Comics Journal – HERE. The discussion about Olivia Jaimes and her take on the comic strip Nancy continues. Jessica Campbell‘s latest comic for Hyperallergic is HERE. ———————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 6-8-2018 – by Sally Ingraham Share this page: [...]

A Studio Visit with Steven Weissman

Posted on June 6, 2016June 15, 2016 by Chris Anthony Diaz

Be on the lookout for Steven’s upcoming book LOOKING FOR AMERICA’S DOG from FANTAGRAPHICS this September, and the awesome BUTTER AND BLOOD from RETROFIT is out now. And you can purchase original art and merch directly from Steven. Photos taken in Little Armenia, Los Angeles, Thursday, May 19 2016 and color by Graham Willcox. Thanks Steven!

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Posted in The Diaz ArchiveTagged 2016, Butter And Blood, Chris Anthony Diaz, Fantagraphics, Looking For America’s Dog, Retrofit, Steven Weissman

Chris Anthony Diaz

Posted on June 6, 2016June 15, 2016

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02/05/2018

Caleb OrecchioFebruary 4, 2018NewsCaleb Orecchio here with thought’s on the eloquent minimalism of Gilbert Hernandez and Charles Schulz, and other news. ————————————————————————————————— Beto’s art has really loosened up and minimized visual information in the last 10 years or so, to the point that only essential information remains. His lines these days are thinner and crisper, more straight-forward and lack the luscious thick-thin contours of his earlier work (in a good way). This, to me, has given his work an enhanced readability and lends his pictures to nearly instant comprehension. To illustrate my point, I will paraphrase (from memory) Gilbert from his Q&A at SPX 2017 where he paraphrases Wally Wood about Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller: As soon as you see a Nancy strip, you’ve already read it before you decide if you like it or not. Schulz, of course, may be the greatest example of minimalism in comics with instantly recognizable characters made up of a handful of squiggly lines. Beautifully articulate face expressions made with a few swipes of his nib. The information in Peanuts is often communicated through dialogue between characters strolling through space, and it’s his simple visuals that invite us in to casually follow along with little to no effort. Beto, in my opinion, has seemed to cracked this same minimalist code of gorgeously-simple visual stimulation that eases the senses giving way to willful submission to the story one holds in one’s hand. A lot of what I admire about this kind of minimalism both Beto and Schulz embody is in their backgrounds. Consider this spread by Gilbert in Love and Rockets #4 (vol. 4): More specifically, consider what information the backgrounds illustrate. The page above (pg. 12) starts with two panels with two respective characters giving their sides of the story. Panel 3 is a sunrise over a town or city, panel 4 is a woman walking into an office, and panel 5 has two people chatting in public within earshot of others. Then, see page 13, we see these same characters talking in what seems to be a secluded area surrounded by more a more rural backdrop, nobody is in sight and the conversation is more serious with less smiling and pleasantries. The above are aspects I rarely notice outright, but seem to unconsciously understand as I read the issue. It’s a seamless process for me as a reader, very enjoyable with very few unnecessary distractions. The tone is clear as a bell despite the subtleties that I’m only aware of in careful study. Schulz’s work functions similarly: consider the strip above. A simple sequence of a brother and sister’s walk to school down their porch stairs, along the road and into a desk. The subject of the dialogue is “school,” while the simple route they take gives the “impression” of a morning walk to school, and the desk solidifies it. Yet, we never consciously think, “they are walking to school,” we just follow them to Sally’s desk just as naturally and unconsciously as one would travel from the kitchen sink to the refrigerator. Am I clear as mud? I suppose I find it interesting that Beto tends to be moving more towards the likes of Schulz and less like earlier influences of Kirby or Ditko or even Crumb in terms of picture-making. Simple, minimal, clearly articulated sequential-images that sweep your eyes along with little to no hinderance. These are beautiful comics that I think help define the essence of cartooning at its purest. ————————————————————————————————— if you don’t know, now you know At PEN American, Whit Taylor guest edits and hosts an excerpt of Kurt Ankeny’s comic, In Pieces: Some Place Which I Call Home. Chris Ware talks to Dmitry Samarov at the Chicago Reader. Sally linked to this article last week, but I felt it was worth linking to a second time, Serious Sex Battle: The Myth of the Wonder Woman by Sarah Nicole Prickett at Artforum. TCJ.com is rerunning an interview with Mort Walker, who recently passed away, from 2009 conducted by R.C. Harvey. Will John Porcellino be coming to your town this year? Find out! I always enjoy Arlen Schumer’s presentations on Kirby, and and especially how vehemently he waves the Kirby flag in this particular instance. Last but not least, please enjoy this two part video of some program of the second annual Mighty Marvel Comic Art Convention in 1976. Includes classic Stan Lee feeling like a celebrity, but the best parts are: 1.) the Q&A with then-new editor-in-chief Archie Goodwin and 2.) John Buscema drawing Conan live which ends with a standing ovation. ————————————————————————————————— Suzy and Cecil – 2-5-2018 – by Gabriella Tito Share this page: [...]

09/20/2016

Aaron CockleSeptember 20, 2016NewsAaron here today with the post-SPX malaise/norovirus update; Some upcoming shows of note; ‘We are Pepe/Pepe is us’; T. Edward Bak; Storyboarding for the movies; Seymour Chwast; ‘This amusing textile’ The Small Press Exposition was held this past weekend in scenic and sprawling Bethesda, MD. This is a big show, and each year it provides an overview of some of the best comics being made in North America, in Europe, and other parts of the world. There really is something for everyone at this show, some works seen this weekend of specific interest to readers of this news-blog include: Powdered Milk vol. 15, Keiler Roberts Roberts was handing out freebies in promotion of her Ignatz nomination for Outstanding Series, which she ended up winning on Saturday night. Congrats, Keiler! The Black Hood: An Anthology of Depression and Anxiety, edited/published by Josh Bayer, co-edited/designed by Mike Freiheit Including work by CW favorites E.A. Bethea, John Porcellino, Katie Fricas, Mike Taylor, Bayer, and a very remarkable list of fellow contributors. BLAMMO #9, Noah Van Sciver The time jumps in the White River Junction story were used really well, and reminded me of how Chester Brown’s Louis Riel jumped around in random places. Van Sciver is consistently doing high level comics, and this issue is a really nice chronicle of work. The Shirley Jackson Project, edited by Robert Kirby Another terrific lineup of contributors here: Colleen Frakes, Robert Triptow, Jennifer Camper, Eric Orner, Josh Simmons,Annie Murphy, Pinc Roq, Dan Mazur, Gabrielle Gamboa, Ivan Velez Jr.,Hannah Blumenreich, Maggie Umber, Asher & Lillie Craw, Jon Macy, W. Woods, Rob Kirby. Rob Clough was in attendance this weekend. He gave CW a quick peek of his heavily annotated map of who he wanted to see at which table, but we were unable to get a picture of it for the record. One of these years. Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo Saturday-Sunday, September 24-25, Providence, RI Paper Jam Small Press Festival 6 Saturday, October 1, Bushwick, NY Indigenous Comic Con Friday-Sunday, November 18-20, Albuquerque, NM Furie on Pepe Abraham Riesman talks with Matt Furie about the Pepe meme phenomenon: Furie says people email him Pepes “retty much everyday.” “Someone just sent one that was based on a quote I said at a comic convention panel,” he adds. “Something about a new frog in town and it had ‘Dat Boi’” (referring, of course, to the year’s best meme so far). That said, he doesn’t seek Pepes out. “I don’t sit there and trip out on Pepe all day like you seem to think,” he says. “I’m just a normal guy trying to connect with people and have a good time.” He doesn’t seem that interested in discussing the other characters and comics, either. “They are what they are: just weird comics about a bunch of weird fraggles hanging out in mysterious nothingness,” he says. I ask him if he sees any sadness in the quartet’s gross lives and his reply is blunt: “No, they are just dumb cartoons.” T. Edward Bak has an essay comic about family history at High Country News In a dream that follows my grandfather’s death, everyone is familiar but I recognize no one. Passengers drift on and off the train as it wends through the prairie. The dream unfolds as a temporally distorted vignette, like a comic strip. My grandfather’s death seems a strange plotline, half-remembered. Storyboarding Blood Simple …photographer Grant Delin created a video that compares scenes from the film to their original storyboards. Featuring commentary by the Coens, Sonnenfeld, and actor Frances McDormand, this fascinating glimpse at their creative process highlights the careful planning that went into the film’s construction. The 160th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 at 7pm at Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. Seymour Chwast on GOD WAR SEX P.W. Herman at Brooklyn Museum This amusing textile was clearly manufactured as a commercial tie-in for Paul Reubens’ enormously successful TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse that aired from 1986-1990. The show was designed by Wayne White, Gary Panter, Craig Bartlett, and others, and this brightly printed textile faithfully depicts the characters and props of this wildly inventive program. Manufactured commercial product tie-ins to motion pictures and television programs are almost as old as the media. The acquisition of this textile helps to explain the myriad impetuses for the production of textiles and to elucidate the taste and preoccupations of a specific historical moment. The actual printer of this textile is not known, but the company was formulated specifically to manufacture promotional souvenirs. Posted by Barry R. Harwood, Lark Morgenstern, and Caitlin Crews. Share this page: [...]

PIX 2016 | Bill Griffith Interview

Juan FernándezJune 20, 2016InterviewsCWTV interviews Bill Griffith, one of underground comics’ founding fathers, about his almost 50 years of making work. Bill is the creator of Zippy the Pinhead (among 3,407 other things) // en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Griffith Get Bill’s latest, the beautiful graphic memoir INVISIBLE INK // copaceticcomics.com/comics/invisible-ink-my-mother-s-secret-love-affair-with-a-famous-cartoonist Video by Michael Pisano and Di-ay Battad // michaelpisano.com // cargocollective.com/di-ay Share this page: [...]

07/25/2018

Juan FernándezJuly 25, 2018los Cómics / NewsSan Diego Comic-Con International 2018 by way of Chris Anthony Diaz, the Eisners, New Latin Wave, Cornish Fellowship Residency, Lauren Weinstein on Paula Modersohn-Becker, Frank Santoro’s Pittsburgh to be published in the US Here on the site, Chris Anthony Diaz offers a beautiful glimpse of his time at San Diego Comic-Con International 2018. These photos were taken in the downtown San Diego Convention Center Exhibit Hall, Thursday, July 19, 2018. Jaime Hernandez shooting rubber bands, Manuele Fior in America, margaritas tacos and lots of smiles… Los Eisners- 2018 Over on High-Low, Rob Clough explains the nature of how the Eisner’s are awarded. It’s a convoluted process that lags behind history in terms of the culture that it reflects. It’s a solid system, but not perfect – Clough explains why: I was happy to see so many women and people of color win Eisners this year, in unprecedented fashion. Indeed, Marjorie Liu, for example, was the first woman to ever win a Best Writer award. Taneka Stotts, Roxane Gay and Alitha Martinez became just the second, third and fourth black women to win Eisners, and Jackie Ormes became the first black woman in the Eisner Hall of Fame. Emil Ferris continued to rack up every award for My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. The slate this year was more skewed this year toward the mainstream than last year’s slate, when I was a juror, though it was still quite solid. However, when it came time for voting last year, the people who did the voting chose a lot of the same old things. This was really disappointing, but not surprising. This year, it was surprising to see who won, and I think it might represent a shift in those who are choosing to vote. Autoras de Cómic les ofrece un hilo de autoras de cómic premiadas/homenajeadas en los Eisners. Lleno de entrevistas, previews, y ensayos, este hilo les sirve como buena introduccíon a las obras de estas mujeres, si no las conocéis! New Latin Wave Festival 2018 is looking for applicants to the Book and Zine component of their show on September 30th. It’s a one day show held at the Brooklyn Bazaar Brooklyn, NY and the table is FREE! Check out their website for more information: https://newlatinwave.com/2018-book-zine-fair-registration/https://newlatinwave.com/ *DEADLINE July 29th* New Latin Wave esta buscando vendedores de comics, zines y libros para el proximo New Latin Wave Festival 2018. El festival es un dia en Brooklyn Bazaar y la mesa es gratis! The Third Year of the Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency Applications for the Cornish Cartoon Studies Fellowship are open! It’s a month-long residency is held during the height of New England’s fall foliage season and includes a $3000 stipend. Think this might be good for you? The deadline to apply is August 15! You can learn more here: https://www.cartoonstudies.org/cornishccsfellowship2018/ Being an Artist And Mother Lauren Wienstein, The New Yorker Wienstein’s piece about Paula Modersohn-Becker is up at the New Yorker. It’s a deft, natural and masterful reflection on motherhood and art history. In Rachel Masilamani’s words, “This says everything about mothering and art making.” New York Review Comics anunció ayer que publicarán el libro de Frank Santoro, Pittsburgh, en 2019. POR FIN! Esto significa que el libro se verá impreso en inglés y mantendremos las mismas dimensiones que la edición francesa original de Éditions çà et là, como dios manda. Y que piensan los criticos franceses? Pues les ha encanta este chef-accompli de Santoro. Ahora falta encontrar una editorial en España o Latinoamérica que publiqueesta obra maestra… Share this page: [...]

Bill Griffith Searching for Beatnik Comics

Juan FernándezApril 7, 2016EssaysBill Griffith Searching for Beatnik Comics at COPACETIC COMICS PITTSBURGH PA USA – Shot and Edited by John Kelly Share this page: [...]

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