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

Vintage joke book covers

From Drawn :
Billy Mavreas has scanned in several American joke book cover illustrations from 1905, published by Wheman Bros. of NY. Billy also warns that some are blatantly racist/offensive.

Books About Comics

Paul Gravett lists his favourite books about comics for 2008. A fine looking selection! (Would that I had the necessary funds for these beauties.... )

Heart Of Empire

Sometimes I get asked questions by people from the international comics community who want to know about the state of British comics and what the scene is like over here. Basically : where's it at in the UK? Comica? Caption? London Underground Comix? The Alternative Comics Expo? In answer, I direct their attention to the cartoon on the notice board outside the Albion Inn pub in Brighton. That's what's at the heart of British comics.

Le Dernier Cri

These guys had an exhibition in Brighton UK last year. It was the best exhibition Brighton's had in years. Gavin Burrows writes about it here, and below you can have a look at the show yourself (the lost-looking chap between 1.13 and 1.19 is me).

Die Puppenfee

More here.

Dept. Of Psychiatry

By O. Soglow
(From Comics Comics.)

La historia del comic

Happy New Year!