REAL MEN part 2

I'm not sure if this is part 2 or parts 3 and 4!
Part 1 is here.

New Stool Pigeon

I forgot to say that the new Stool Pigeon is out (and possibly already gone). It includes a few strips by me, plus Krent Able, Martin Kellerman, Josh Lesnick, JC & APK, David Ziggy Greene, Steve Tillotson, Daniel Locke, and is available from these places.
Here's a review!

The Beano Review: "Britain's Brightest Comic"... finally held to account!

Worth a look! It's both funny and fair.

Las Aventuras De Anarcoma, El Vibora issue 1, 1979, by Nazario.

More on Anarcoma.

El Vibora

This is the cover to El Vibora issue 1 from 1979. El Vibora (The Viper) was a long-running and influential Spanish underground and alternative comics magazine. This first issue features reprints of US artists such as Kim Deitch, along with French cartoonists like Petillon, and Spaniards such as Max and Martí. The highlight for me though is the first chapter of Las Aventuras De Anarcoma, by Nazario, who also drew the cover.

Jerry Robinson on the new edition of his history of "The Comics".

I once found a dusty old copy of the original edition of this book in the basement of Manchester University's library. Read about the new edition here. The artwork included looks great!

REAL MEN part 1

Comix Meeting... Wednesday 2nd March

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Micky Mouse - Mickey's Mechanical Man

1933.

"Strawberry" Fields in "Preggers"

An hilarious Crumb comic from Facts o' Life issue 1, 1972.

The Eavesdropper No.5

More Eavesdropper here, here, here, and here.

Happy Valentine's Day

Fat Chaplin

In my mind this was a funny idea...

The 2nd Leeds Alternative Comics Fair

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Crumb on Crumb

Crumbproducts.com has three of the autobiographical pieces written by R.Crumb as introductions to The Complete Crumb series. They're worth a read! Someone should collect together all Crumb's written pieces and interviews into one place... that would be a great book as he's always entertaining.
Anyway, they have :

"Minds are Made to be Blown" Crumb reflects on 1966-'67

"Roughing It" Crumb in the early '70s

"Dealing With Reality" Looking Back at Work and Music in 1972–73

The Comix Reader launch party! POSTSCRIPT

Thanks so much to everyone who came last night! I wasn't sure how many would make it (imagining myself broken and humiliated in an empty room) but it was far busier than I could have imagined. There were guests before I'd even arrived, and by 7.30 we'd filled the room, and were spilling out into the main bar.
I met many cool comics (and non comics) people and had many interesting conservations, & I hope it was the same for everyone else... and if so it was a successful night and worth doing.
I also received plenty of good advice on where to take The Comix Reader next.
The only shame is that I didn't get a chance to speak to everyone, and that I forgot to take any photos!

The Comix Reader launch party is TONIGHT!

The Comix Reader launch party is TONIGHT!
Upstairs @ The Crown
51 New Oxford Street
London, United Kingdom
6.30 until closing.
...Come help us celebrate the launch of our new cartoon and comix paper! Meet the artists and have a drink with us! If you don't yet have a copy, come and get one - it only costs a pound! Get it signed if you want! It'll be fun! Cheap ...bar too!

Flyer by Ellen Lindner

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The Comix Reader launch party is tomorrow!

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Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha! Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha! Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha! Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha!

Bimbo's Initiation. 1931 Fleischer Studios.



A tale ripe for Freudian readings.