Argentine artist Sanyú digs into J.G. Ballard’s classic novel of obsession in eight striking pages of comics. Check it out. Sanyú’s home page.
Read moreSanyú Adapts J.G. Ballard’s Crash in Comics
Brown Cuts Neighbors Cutting Room Floor
I posted a few clips from a first draft of a Brown Cuts Neighbors video compilation from a few years ago on YouTube. There is a sizable segment featuring some of my drawings and comic strips. I also did most of the titles and animation parts. It...
Read moreDozens of new Books added to the Wow Cool shop
No joke! We have added more titles to our online and Cupertino stores at one time then since we launched the new web shop some three years ago. And more are being added every day. Over 30 titles from Top Shelf! Many many more from Koyama...
Read moreKickstart This: Last Gasp Fall 2015 Books
The last of the holdouts of the original underground comics publishers – Last Gasp – is in need of some help to make their Fall publishing season a success, and they’ve turned to Kickstarter, and you , dear reader, to get it...
Read moreCartoon Rock Show In Oakland
International comic art practitioners tour America and get served about what you might expect when they land in Oakland, California. No extreme violence actually occurred, but it seemed imminent on a couple occasions. I was not witness to all of...
Read moreWicked King Wicker Video by Steven Cerio
A new video Steven Cerio directed, filmed and edited for Jim Gibson’s WICKED KING WICKER song “Faith through Fear”. The album is available on iTunes.
Read moreZero Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero
Once upon a time I was the Art Director at the comic book publisher Fantagraphics. I worked most closely there with Kim Thompson, who should have turned 58 today. Probably the two biggest projects we worked on together were the revised and...
Read moreA Few Blurry Phone Photos From SPX 2014
I went to SPX 2014 and all I got were these seven crappy phone photos, a Hidden Fortress T-Shirt and the new Charles Burns book (signed, with the numbered bookplate and the paper mask). I picked up a ton of new books from various parts of the...
Read moreKickstart This: Sparkplug Fall Books
Sparkplug Books needs your help to publish their next two books: Reich #12 by Elijah Brubaker and Vortex by William Cardini. That’s all you should need to know. Go on, get to it. Get over to Kickstarter and give Sparkplug lots of money!
Read moreGo Read: Capitol Contingency 90s D.C. Music History
Capitol Contingency: Post-Punk, Indie Rock, and Noise Pop in Washington, D.C., 1991-1999 by Brandon Gentry is the sort of book about the D.C. indie scene(s) I’ve long wanted to read. My needs were pretty simple on this, something along the...
Read moreKickstart This: CBGB Punk Photos by GODLIS 1976-1979 The BOOK
David Godlis very generously provided his 1977 portrait of Ramones designer Arturo Vega for the print and digital memorials in Maximum RocknRoll that I produced with John Holmstrom last year. I am very grateful for that and would like you to take...
Read moreIndie Comics Day – Two New From Alternative
We are making an attempt around here to designate Thursday as Indie Comic Book Day. Wednesday is the traditional new comic book day, but Thursday is the traditional ‘businesses stay open a little later day’, so it makes some sort of...
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