Via the Fantagraphics blog I just found out about this amazing show that once again finds me in the wrong state of mind, er, residence. Jeremy Eaton’s Cartoon Jumbles are exhibited at the Secret Headquarters comic shop and gallery, located at 3817 W. Sunset Boulevard, in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles starting this Friday, [...]
Tag Archives: comics
Full of Pryde
May 15, 2009 – 11:01 pm
Through work, I’ve become more exposed to art. Art and me don’t necessarily don’t get along, but we definitely didn’t work hard at hanging out more than once in a blue moon. Work has cultivated a bit of taste in art in me (somewhat random, mostly minimal, but still hard to describe) but more importantly, [...]
How do you make the Venture Brothers even better?
March 17, 2009 – 8:27 pm
How do you make the Venture Brothers even better? Add Veteran comic book artist / painter Bill Sienkiewicz to the mix. Bill did these illustrations for the Venture Brothers Season 1 DVD Set.
Everybody do the Batusi!
February 27, 2009 – 9:07 pm
Supposedly invented by Adam West for the 60s Batman show, the Batusi (a not-so-clever pun on the Watusi) weaseled it’s way into pop culture thanks to it’s appearance in Pulp Fiction as “the dance John Travolta and Uma Thurman perform at the Jackrabbit Slim’s dance contest”. Batusi definitely sounds better than that mouthful.
Inspired by Mike [...]
So who’s on First Second?
February 21, 2009 – 9:25 pm
In the last few months I’ve seen a few articles pop up about First Second. A recent example is the announcement that Scott McCloud, of Understanding Comics, Zot! and Google Chrome comic fame is joining First Second.
Prior to that, I found out that Paul Pope’s next book, Battling Boy, will be published by First Second.
Leaving [...]
Insert cover-related pun here.
February 21, 2009 – 9:05 pm
Covered really is a wonderfully fun project; there’s a ton of artists, famous and not, that I would love to see do this as well. Above: Jeffrey Brown interprets Wolverine.
The best Scott Pilgrim Vol 5 review
February 21, 2009 – 8:49 pm
I had fully intended to write a decent SP Vol 5 review myself, but I found that Abhay Khosla at The Savage Critic already wrote what is probably the best review that you’ll find. And for once I decided to not explore my own journey into blog post mediocrity.
Abhay identifies the point in the series [...]
Conflicted is an understatement.
February 16, 2009 – 8:38 pm
Note: I wrote this as a post for Geekocracy, as I’ve been trying to steer the irrg.org ship towards more diversified grounds. But, for some reason I liked it enough to post it here. Clear case of misjudgment on my part.
You are usually able to trace back addiction to a specific moment.
For me, it’s [...]
Big fish eat the little fish
February 3, 2009 – 2:38 pm
Norwalk, CT , February 2, 2009: Reed Exhibitions has today announced the launch of Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) which will take place April 16 – 18, 2010 at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. The new show will be structured in the spirit of New York Comic Con (NYCC) which was launched by Reed [...]
I can’t believe I forgot to post this.
January 31, 2009 – 1:31 pm
Sitting in my bookmarks since it was published on Chris’s Invincible Superblog (hey, what’s in a name?)…evidence that Jim Balent (former artist of the then gravity-defying-bra owner Catwoman) writes…interesting plot points. Yeahbuhwuh? And yes, this is from a real comic book.
Be seeing you, number 6.
January 16, 2009 – 10:03 pm
Be seeing you, number 6. Patrick McGoohan w passes away. Related (and shown above): The Prisoner of Second Ave by Evan Dorkin.
Dog hates ME.
December 10, 2008 – 8:39 am
Sam Brown of Exploding Dog fame does disturbingly fascinating 3 panel comics at Dog hates ME. Fuck yeah, we’re going to burn.
Moist: Humidity Rising
December 8, 2008 – 10:02 pm
Dr Horrible’s dripping diminutive dorky confederate’s origin is… odd and short. But mostly odd. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
Can you guess what’s in this mysterious mailing tube?
October 14, 2008 – 6:42 pm
Can you guess what’s in this mysterious mailing tube? Readers of Marvel comics cover-dated December 1965 were challenged with this impossible puzzle, and even in this era of massive social change and cultural controversy, this guessing game became all the rage among heads of state, celebrities, and the hoi pallois. What do you think it [...]
Jeffrey Brown is a visionary.
October 12, 2008 – 12:19 am
Jeffrey Brown is a visionary; this panel is from his 2006 bundle called I am Going To Be Small. Plus he did a book about cats. What more do you want?
McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More
October 11, 2008 – 10:10 pm
Old crazy coot meets old crazy coot — Frank Miller meets John McCain.
A comic con in Chicago. And not in Schaumburg.
October 9, 2008 – 5:08 pm
This might be interesting. Wizard World Chicago always gets a lot of crap for not being in Chicago. And, well, for being a consumerist superficial Spike-TV sponsored crapfest. Details.
Phonogram / The Umbrella Academy
October 3, 2008 – 10:25 pm
Phonogram and The Umbrella Academy were two of the biggest surprises in comics this year as far as I’m concerned. (Sure, Phonogram ran from ‘06 into ‘07, and the Academy started in 2007, but, well, fuck you, I’m slow). Suburban Glamour, a series by half of the Phonogram team (Jamie McKelvie) was a good holdover, [...]