THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend presents the pen-ultimate panel, entitled “The Not-So-Funny Situation of Alternative Comix” and featuring Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Chris Ware. Tickets are $5. We are likely living in the golden age of graphic novels and alternative comics, but the artists themselves are facing what may be the most significant [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've written about this before , but it's getting very close now: The 33rd issue of McSweeney's is going to take the form of a Sunday newspaper titled The San Francisco Panorama : It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides)...
lines and colors (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Unmasked is a Halloween themed cover and four page comic story (two double page spreads) for the November 2nd issue of The New Yorker, by Chris Ware. In a fashion Chris Ware fans have come to expect, the hilarious but subtle cover leads seamlessly into the story, a poignant look at generational and family relations, [...]
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Ware did the cover and a comic inside this week’s issue. [Via Graham Linehan.]
East Bay View (mostly a food blog) (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Not a pure response to this , since my working definition of "of the decade" is more flexible. Though the Brits are overrepresented (too much reading of the Guardian) my list is more internationalist than the Millions list, plus I like some picture books a lot. Comics aside, there's very little genre fiction on the list: I find it hard to work out what's worth reading, as recommendations,...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
§ Mash-up of the week: Emo superstar Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy interviews comics superstar Chris Ware in a delightful deserted factory near downtown LA for a surprisingly relaxed series of videos. Bonus: they’re subtitled in German! § ICv2 rounds up last month’s Bookscan charrts, and finds Graphic Novels Down 15% in Q3, [...]
The Beguiling Books & Art (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
KING CAT: John Porcellino In Toronto Autobio comics legend at The Beguiling touring MAP OF MY HEART! Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 7pm-10pm @ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street, Toronto, Canada FREE http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109815885562 Join us in welcoming autobio comix legend John Porcellino, author of the KING-CAT series of comics, to his first Toronto! Porcellino will be celebrating his...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
§ Oh Shaenon, why can’t I be you? The Patrick Swayze Manga Recommendation Guide. § Robot 6 calls this post “The comic Chris Ware doesn’t want you to see” and it is pretty hard to improve upon that description. What is the secret of…FLOYD FARLAND'?? § Geoff Boucher looks at Jack Kirby, the abandoned hero [...]
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment | Chris Ware’s charity robot T-shirtCartoonist Chris Ware has created a T-shirt that's currently available at Woot.com's T-shirt site to benefit 826michigan, a nonprofit tutoring and writing center in Ann Arbor. It also features a subject near and dear to our hearts. The shirt is currently $10 with free standard...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
The Architects Journal compiled a top 10 list of "the greatest illustrated urban spaces" from comic books. Above, panels from Moebius' The Long Tomorrow and Herge's Tintin. Also featured: Radiant City, Metropolis, Ubicand, Gotham City, Daredevil's New York, From Hell's London, Chris Ware's Chicago, and Mega City One. Top 10 Comic Book Cities (via Drawn!)...
Drawn! (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
I thoroughly enjoyed this animated short, Vice Versa, by Jacques Khouri, an animation professor at Savannah College of Art and Design. Be sure to watch in full screen for the full effect; its use of multiple panels to tell parallel stories reminds me of Chris Ware’s work. I was also reminded of Norman McLaren’s classic short, [...]
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