TELL ME MORE...: COMICS EXHIBITION

"Tell me more ..." is the title of the first international comics exhibition to be held in Riga, Latvia from the 7th February til the 8th March 2009.
The exhibition will showcase artworks by 14 artists or artist collectives from France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia, Netherlands and Latvia. The artists include...


Ingrīda Pičukāne (Latvia)


Lamelos (Netherlands)


Matti Hagelberg (Finland)

http://www.lcca.lv/

Alternative Press Fair

Well, last Sunday's Alternative Press Fair was a success by any standard... vibes, friendliness, people, good art, comics & zines, and decent sales for most exhibitors. Enormous thanks to Jimi Gherkin and Peter Lally for making it happen. And thanks to everyone who helped (and continues to) spread the word.
I was looking around for reports and comments on the fair, only to find they'd been collected already by the anonymous Bugpowder Interviewer :

Wes White's report, David O'Connell's report, Sarah McIntyre's report, Some sketches (there were too many things to buy apparently). A photo of and short blog post about Vivianne Schwarz's haul from the fair. Tom Hughes' report. Zarina Liew's thanks attendees.

And here's some more:

Shellsuit Zombie's report.

Dan Locke's report.

Lenny's report.

Down The Tubes mentions the proposed Alternative Press Anthology, and you can get the full details on that and everything else back on comicsandzines.wordpress.com.

More photos coming soon.

Wet Nightmare

From Terri Affleck :
Hello everyone, I'm about to have a bunch of my drawings, paintings, dolls and such in 'Wet Nightmare', an exhibition curated by Zeke S. Clough at Fold Gallery in London. Check out this link for more information about the show and the other artists involved.
The private view is this Friday, 6th Feb, 6-9pm. Do come along if you can and say hello...
Following that the exhibition is open during weekends until March. For less vague information about opening hours and a map of where the Fold Gallery is, look at this link.
Bye for now, Terri

And it's tomorrow...

Art by Gareth Brookes


Art by Chloe McCormack

Art by Zarina Liew

Images from her Cobalt Cafe portfolio.




Meet her this Sunday at....

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Waltz With Bashir

I saw this film by accident a few days ago... we'd intended to see something else. It turned out to be a fortuitous mistake, as it's the best animated film I've seen in years. The trailers below don't do it justice.





http://waltzwithbashir.com/

Reviews.

Just one more week until The Alternative Press Fair!

Read about the artists and exhibitors.

Read the Spoonfed interview with Jimi Gherkin, Peter Lally and me.

Read the *UNEDITED* interview!

Rebel Visions: a cartoon appreciation

Joseph Remnant's cartoon appreciation of Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 by Patrick Rosenkranz, as published in the July 2008 issue of Arthur magazine.

(From FLOG! Blog).

Betty Boop

BETTY BOOP'S UPS AND DOWNS
Fleischer Bros, 1932.

Simon K James Hanselmann

Art taken from his Girl Mountain myspace page.

More Herbie

Herbie's time machine :



All these images nicked from perlypalms.com

The Fat Fury

Dan Nadel reviews the Herbie archives.



Read the rest of this story here.

DADS MAGS

A great 4-pager on Mike Diana's website.

Illustrations by Hurk

Until yesterday I was only familiar with Hurk's comic-strip work, such as the hip hop themed "Me-God"... one of the funniest comics I've ever seen (and totally original to boot). I didn't realise he had it going on as an illustrator too... but feast your eyes on the beauties below:





More to see on Hurk's site.

Libido of Benjamino

By Ivan Maximov / Иван Максимов

(Thanks Noelle).

Harvey Pekar's Jazz Opera

“People don’t accept experimental art, few people even read James Joyce anymore,” Pekar continued. “Jazz has no following, not real jazz. The musicians have to sell their own CDs at the shows because record companies don’t want them. I want to tell people if they turn their backs on anything new and different, the art form will die.”

Read about it at Comic Book Resources, where you can also listen to an excerpt from a telephone conversation between Pekar and Robert Crumb. The guys talk about the kind of music they like and argue about who’s right. “Crumb thinks no good music has been written after 1933,” Pekar said. “But we talk about it.” Crumb also makes some interesting comments about funding for the arts.

The Unicorn in the Garden

Orignally released in September 1953.

You're The Cream In My Coffee (1928)

Kirby cover of the month