May 1, 2012
Go, Look: Tony Fitzpatrick’s Site Has A “Hobo” Category
every site should
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Go, Read: A Short Tribute To Frank Odoi
I greatly enjoyed
this tribute to the late Ghanian-born Kenyan cartoonist Frank Odoi, although it's not exactly hugely comics-centric. If you have a few minutes to give it a read -- even if the claim in the headline raises your nerdly hackles -- I think there's something to be learned there. Cartooning in Africa is something about which I know very little, although I get the sense that more than anywhere else the vitality of the form depends on artists like Odoi who have reached a comfortable position with an audience; in other words, it's not like there are slots that cartoonists fill, it's more like cartoonists claim a certain position and I'm not sure that gets replicated in any way when they're gone. The linked-to article also has much more about the family that survives Odoi, to whom all continued condolences.
There's a nice, short selection of Odoi cartoon
here, and some adorable photos of a class visit.
posted 8:00 am PST |
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Go, Look: Paul Peart-Smith
posted 7:30 am PST |
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Two To Watch: Digital Efforts By Mark Waid, Brian Hibbs
* as seen in
various press-driven news stories marking the event, writer Mark Waid's digital comics site goes live today. We wish the newly-minted pride of Yorktown luck.
Here's his site largely about that site. As has been mentioned in a number of places, this could be important a) for the site itself, if it hits; b) for the fact that Mark Waid, a known quantity within the mainstream comics world, is the one doing it. The latter factor could spur other writers to seek self-directed digital comics opportunities.
* Johanna Draper Carlson
notes the launch of a Savage Critics digital on-line selling place. That works slightly along the same lines of Hibbs being a figure well-known within his corner of the comics field so that the success or failure of this initiative has an instructive potential. Digital efforts from established comics retailers is an interesting thing generally, because of the notion that these are the people that know how to sell comics.
Shanna and Eric, patron saints of computer-related comics efforts
posted 7:00 am PST |
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Go, Look: Dennis Culver’s Sketchjournal
posted 6:30 am PST |
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Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked
By Tom Spurgeon
* Secret Acres announced their TCAF debut of Michiel Budel's
Wayward Girls this morning; I'm not sure there's an appropriate link on their site yet, but there's the cover for the 24-page book.
Update: Here's that link.
* the author of
this free book available for download was nice enough to write in to make my aware of the link to the free stuff.
* the fifth issue of
The Devastator will feature Tony Millionaire and a parody of
Mouse Guard. Not in the same article.
*
holy guacamole, that looks like a potentially great issue of TCJ.
* Sean T. Collins
provides details on
Thickness #3.
*
James Stokoe drawing Spider-Man In Vietnam comics isn't likely to happen.
* I would have to imagine the world of manga is full of announcements
like this one, although I'm not yet a good enough linkblogger to make a proper adjudication on what we need to see of them and when and how. It'll get figured out.
* a bigger frustration for this site is how to play things like
the completion of Fantagraphics' Popeye series. That's a top five all-time comic receiving the package through which it's going to be consumed for the next quarter-century, and I'm not sure we process that kind of thing the way we should.
* the writer Mark Millar
declares that creator-owned is where it's at for him for a while. I like Millar because his self-pronouncements are like wrestling-personality declarations. Like you know that there's going to be a mainstream comeback like ten years from now, and this is laying the groundwork for that storyline.
* did you know that Jim Rugg had a podcast called
Tell Me Something I Don't Know? And if you did, why didn't you tell me?
*
totally missed this charming-looking book. Greatly anticipating
the new edition of this one.
*
it's good to be the Kim.
* finally,
an update on all things Farel Dalrymple.
posted 6:00 am PST |
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Go, Look: James Harren
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If I Were In Minneapolis, I’d Go To This
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Go, Look: Jeff Heermann
posted 3:00 am PST |
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the great Moto Hagio
received Japan's Medal Of Honor.
* if I timed this correctly, by the time you read this you should be able to download a copy of the CCS/NCS tabloid team-up
The Cartoon Crier at
cartoonstudies.org. If I didn't, well, wait a few; it's coming.
* missed it:
new (well, not anymore, I guess) Johnny Ryan.
* Rob Clough on
two new comics from Michael DeForge. Todd Klein on
Creepy Comics Vol. 1 and
The Flash #7. Don MacPherson on
various comics and
Captain Atom #2-5. Katherine Dacey on
I'll Give It My All... Tomorrow. Sean Gaffney on
GTO: The Early Years Vol. 12. J. Caleb Mozzocco on
two Superman trades from way back in the olden days before New 52. Team AV Club on
various comics. Jason Sacks on
Popeye Vol. 6. Alicia Korenman on
Love And Rockets.
* hey, new
Destructor.
* not sure anything close to
this headline has ever been typed by anyone before.
* Michael Cavna talks to
Marjane Satrapi. Jason Barr
talks to Johnny Ryan. Lauren Davis talks to
Jeffrey Brown. Tim O'Shea talks to
Ty Templeton.
* well,
this is just adorable.
* I think
I'm all for the Bat-Stache just short of taking a glamor photo of yourself with the Bat-Stache.
* finally, Rob Clough
reports on Joe Sacco's recent Duke appearance. It doesn't get much better than Joe Sacco.
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Please Help The Comics Reporter Extend Its Social Media Footprint
I hope that you'll consider adding this site's limited social media offerings to your array of things you follow and like.
The Comics Reporter has
a fairly active twitter account here and
a sort-of active Facebook page here.
This is the Tom Spurgeon you should befriend on Facebook if you want to acknowledge our comics-related relationship that way. There's a regular Facebook profile
here that I only use with actual, I-would-call-you-before-arriving-in-your-city pals, and
a twitter account under my own name I use to make wisecracks about things that aren't comics.
At one point a long time ago we were supposed to fold this information into the site somewhere, but we have different priorities right now so I thought I'd do a limited-repetition post in the hope that we can drive some attention to those efforts in advance of doing so more formally on the site. Really,
the @comicsreporter twitter account is the main offering. I do some links back to the site (but not all, as I don't want people to only come here via twitter), talk to people, make fun of comics-related things and post instant reactions to some news stories.
Thanks for any and all consideration and for your continued attention to this site.
By "limited repetition" I mean I'm going to run this post the entire month of May, so let me apologize for that intrusion. Hopefully it appearing down here in the 2 AM slot means you can turn it into scroll-down white noise if you've already seen it multiple times.
posted 12:00 am PST |
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