Lost for many years… the official video for The Pop Group’s We Are All Prostitutes has been discovered and re-released
Read moreKickstart This: CHAINMAIL BIKINI: The Anthology of Women Gamers
Chainmail Bikini is an anthology of comics by and about female gamers! 40 cartoonists have contributed 200+ pages of all new stories about the games they’re passionate about—from video games to table-top role-playing to collectible card...
Read moreHappy 30th Anniversary Teen-Beat Records
The mighty Teen-Beat Records celebrates its 30 year anniversary. Wow Cool’s house band nickname: Rebel has paid tribute to their releases twice in the past; first on the 20th anniversary covers comp Relax Brother, Relax – with a...
Read moreJe Suis Charlie
Art by John Derf Backderf. Click to make big. Share widely.
Read moreSupport the Sequential Artists Workshop
Twenty seven years ago I shared a studio at the School of Visual Arts dorms with Tom Hart — a visionary young artist who showed much potential for becoming a great cartoonist. He did become a great cartoonist. What no one knew then was that...
Read moreI Saw A Thing… Punk Rock and all that…
fumbling about for something to have on in the background while messing around with such esoteric concerns as GS1-128 barcodes and the west coast trucking crisis I stumbled across a pair of what I think were German TV documentaries on punk from...
Read moreKickstart This: Smilin’ Ed Comics
It is very likely that I would not be working in comics now without the influence of Raoul Vezina, the creator of the classic four issue series of Smilin’ Ed Smiley comics that were released more than 30 years ago. Raoul was also the front...
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 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 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 moreKickstart This – Root Hog or Die – The John Porcellino/King-Cat documentary
For twenty-five years, John Porcellino has been self publishing ‘King-Cat Comics & Stories’, a black & white (generally) 32 page comic/zine. His collected stories have been published by Drawn and Quarterly, and his work has...
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