November 25, 2013
Not Comics: The Story Of Troubador Press
via Bob Levin
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CAPS Makes Request For Direct Donations & Original Art To Auction On Behalf Of Stan And Sharon Sakai
The long-running southern California assemblage of comics-makers the Cartoon Art Professional Society
is putting together an art auction to assist Stan and Sharon Sakai with Sharon's medical bills not covered by their insurance. I have personal knowledge of how tough it can be to pay homecare expenses even when you have insurance, so my heart goes out to that lovely couple. Stan Sakai is a wholly admirable cartoonist whose life's work has brought tens of thousands a significant amount of joy. I hope that you'll consider helping. I used the direct donation button through the initial link.
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By Request Extra: Typhoon Charity, Fantagraphics, D+Q, Binder
There are three ongoing fundraising projects/sales that I thought worth mentioning again in their own post. I do so as Monday seems a far way off even without a holiday between it and us, and once December hits it's hard to free up any extra money at all.
* one of the three efforts is for charity: Rina Ayuyang's
wholly admirable effort to gather art into an auction for typhoon relief in the Philippines. Those auctions are starting to go into their ending cycles, one after another, and there are still some love things to be had.
* the Fantagraphics Spring Season crowd-funder
is nearing the $200K mark as I write this. That is an extremely well-run crowd-funder, with a lot of fun incentives. Fantagraphics is a virtuous company with a massive track record and a long record of putting their money into publishing first and profit second.
* another great comics company, Drawn and Quarterly,
is in the midst of a week-long sale of its books at a hefty 40 percent savings. They had a really good years, and it's difficult for me to imagine any Christmas list out there that couldn't use a D+Q on it: whether that's the Moomin material for kids, or books like
Susceptible for grown-ups, or what seem to me really accessible books by artists like Lisa Hanawalt and Tom Gauld.
As a send-off I also wanted to mention
this Kickstarter campaign because some of my friends in comics are talking about it and it's a rare thing to see a crowd-funder that deals with a collectibles issue as opposed to content publication. Individual issues are tough. When I'm settled down somewhere I use hard-paper slaves similar to the old FOOM slips for various comics, just so I can shelve them. I've never seriously considered binding. I don't mind longboxes but it's nice to have work out where you can grab it.
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Al Plastino, RIP
posted 10:25 pm PST |
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Your Prix De La BD Fnac 2014 Nominees
The international retailing giant Fnac
has announced its nominees for the 2014 edition of its BD Prize. North American works
Annie Sullivan And The Trials Of Helen Keller,
My Friend Dahmer,
Punk Rock Jesus and the first volume of
Saga were recognized in their equivalent French-language editions. The French-language awards programs tend to cluster around the end of the year in part because of the gravity-warping presence of the Angouleme Festival. Fnac, one would assume, has the extra incentive of selling the books in its prize program during the gift-driven holiday season.
Those selected are:
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Annie Sullivan et Helen Keller, Joseph Lambert (Ca Et La)
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Blacksad Vol. 5, Juanjo Guarnido and Juan Diaz Canales (Dargaud)
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Come Prima, Alfred (Delcourt)
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Crève saucisse, Simon Hureau and Pascal Rabate (Futuropolis)
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Deadline, Christian Rossi and LF Bollee (Glenat)
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Eve sur la balancoire, Nathalie Ferlut (Casterman)
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Long John Silver Vol. 4, Mathieu Lauffray (Dargaud)
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La Grande épopée de Picsou Vol. 2, Don Rosa (Glenat)
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La petite mort, Davy Mourier (Delcourt)
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La tectonique des plaques, Margaux Motin (Delcourt)
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Lastman Vol. 1, Michael Sanlaville and Balak and Bastien Vives (Casterman)
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L'attaque des Titans Vol. 1, Hajime Isayama (Pika)
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Le chien qui louche Etienne Davodeau (Futuropolis)
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Esteban Vol. 5, Matthieu Bonhomme (Dupuis)
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Le Transperceneige, Jean-Marc Rochette and Lob and Benjamin Legrand (Casterman)
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L'étranger, Jacques Ferrandez (Gallimard)
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Ma révérence, Rodguen and Wilfrid Lupano (Delcourt)
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Master Keaton Vol. 1, Naoki Urasawa (Kana)
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Mauvais genre, Chloe Cruchaudet (Delcourt)
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Melvile, l'histoire de Samuel Beauclair, Romain Renard (Lombard)
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Mon ami Dahmer, Derf (Ca Et La)
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Paco les mains rouges Vol. 1, Eric Sagot and Fabien Vehlmann (Dargaud)
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Pawnee, Patrick Prugne (Daniel Maghen)
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Pendant que le roi de Prusse faisait la guerre, qui donc lui reprisait ses chaussettes?, Zidrou and Roger (Dargaud Benelux)
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Punk Rock Jesus, Sean Murphy (Urban Comics)
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Revenants, Mael and Olivier Morel (Futuropolis)
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Saga Vol. 1, Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan (Urban Comics)
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Tyler Cross, Bruno Voir and Fabien Nury (Dargaud)
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Universal War 2 Vol. 1, Denis Bajram (Casterman)
Congratulations to all nominees.
It looks like you can actually vote here.
art from Pawnee
posted 10:20 pm PST |
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Go, Look: Creators Bill Of Rights Anniversary Blogging At A Moment Of Cerebus
posted 10:15 pm PST |
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Go, Look: Rob Kirby’s Top Twenty Self-Published Comics And Mini-Comics For 2013
The cartoonist and writer-about-comics Rob Kirby
has his third annual list of twenty top self-published comics and mini-comics, this time for the year 2013. His choices are:
* Beach Girls, Box Brown
* Driftwood City, Jason Martin
* Every/Body, Edited by Greer Lawson
* Fear of Flowers, Jason Viola
* Gnomes, Sam Gaskin
* Hawaii 1997, Sam Alden
* Hungry Bottom Comics: 2 Fags 2 Furious, Eric Kostiuk Williams
* I'm a Horse, Bitch, Lauren Barnett
* LovF, Jesse Reklaw
* Milkyboots #14, Virginia Paine
* Not a Horse Girl, Marian Runk
* Runaway Dog, Emelie Ostergren
* Screentests, Annie Mok
* Sequential Vacation 2, Sar Shahar
* Stethoscope Microphone, Whit Taylor
* Training, Josh Simmons
* Viewotron #2, Sam Sharpe
* What's New, Pussycat?, MariNaomi
* Young Safari Guide, Jesse Jacobs
* Zebadiah, Asher Z. Craw
There is a lengthy honorable mention list and a lot of supplementary choices in various categories through that initial link.
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OTBP: Missy
posted 10:05 pm PST |
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Go, Look: Sheldon Moldoff Era Batman Covers
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Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked
By Tom Spurgeon
* missed that Richard Thompson
released the imagery that will accompany the complete
Cul De Sac collection coming out next year. It's hard for me to imagine a much bigger publishing event for 2014 off the top of my head, and there won't be one I'll enjoy as much. Petey Otterloop 4-ever.
* Gene Luen Yang
talks to collaborator Sonny Liew about his work, with the 2014 publication of their collaboration
The Shadow Hero as the hook.
* the release date on Clifford Meth's
Comic Book Babylon has been pushed back to President's Day.
* Jillian Tamaki
writes about the other parts of putting together a publishing project with
This One Summer.
* received an e-mail from Ari Jayaprakash, the creator of the forthcoming
Kuru Chronicles about early promotional efforts on behalf of the massive, forthcoming book:
here and
here.
*
here are all the covers for the Pretty Deadly launch in one place. It does look like variant covers are pretty well ensconced in that part of the market for that kind of book debut.
* great to hear that Bob Fingerman
signed a three book deal with Les Humanoides Associés.
* Warren Ellis
will be writing a Moon Knight comic book for Marvel Comics. I think Ellis is a really solid writer on slightly off-center mainstream superhero comics and it's to Marvel's credit they find a place to employ talent like that in a way that serves their own interests in developing certain properties. That sounds like damning with faint praise, but I mean it, that's what publishers do when they work: match talent to need.
* finally, I don't think I'd seen
an image from Nick Abadzis' forthcoming Cigar That Fell In Love With A Pipe, or, really, heard much about it at all. I always enjoy reading Abadzis' work. That is from
this dedicated Tumblr site.
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Go, Look: The World Of Malaria Moe
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Go, Look: Paul Gulacy’s Black Widow Portfolio
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* James Romberger on
a bunch of different comics, including
Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream. Don MacPherson on
Doing Time. Kelly Thompson on
Young Avengers #12. Andrew Wheeler has been reviewing the Marvel
Infinity series one by one, all of which are available
here. I bought a bunch of those when I was in New York, so I look forward to reading those reviews.
* this site won't be doing a collective memory for the Long Beach show last weekend, but Nick Marino wrote a report and gathered some photos
here and we're glad to link to it.
* Alex Dueben talks to
Zeina Abirached,
Colleen Coover and the trio of
Reed Waller, James Vance and Denis Kitchen. Tim O'Shea talks to commercial actor
Steve Lieber.
* the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com
notes that Time Warner spinning its print media into its own company and away from Time Warner proper is a long-term strategy come to fruition, and that DC's exclusion from this spin-off shows just how mainstreamed within that company is the idea that DC's comics are media development tools.
* that same site points out that the heinous, cascading act of bad behavior that is the appropriation of a Beastie Boys song for a commercial endeavor by claiming reworked lyrics make it a parody -- and that this, not the commercial use, is the defining element of that appropriation -- and all the calls for settling and "everyone turns out a winner" and aggressive Internet posturing that has followed actually offers up a positive:
people are learning about Rube Goldberg.
* finally,
here's a piece in the
New York Times about bringing
Fun Home to the stage.
posted 4:00 pm PST |
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Happy 35th Birthday, Max Clotfelter!
posted 3:00 pm PST |
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Happy 63rd Birthday, Doug Rice!
posted 3:00 pm PST |
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Happy 60th Birthday, Pat Broderick!
posted 3:00 pm PST |
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Assembled Extra: Tüki Save The Humans Has Launched
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Drawn And Quarterly Announces Weeklong Holiday Sale
Drawn and Quarterly is having a sale right now on its books. The Fall is a tough time for a lot of publishers. My understanding is that this isn't reflective of anything dire, but it's something they really hope goes well.
I quite liked a lot of their books this year, particularly
Susceptible and
Marble Season. It's also quite easy to see the Tom Gauld and Lisa Hanawalt books as being really good gift books -- they would super-appeal to a lot of people that might not even know who they are before they saw the cover for the first time.
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