Knitting Iris (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
4 days. 4 parties. One, a smallish full moon potluck at our house, and the other three, birthday parties of friends, two 9 year old girls and one 60 year old girl. So much time together !!*OUTSIDE*!! with so many...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Chip Kidd and Austin Grossman headline Pantheon’s activities at the show: Chip Kidd will be discussing Bat-Manga! (hardcover and paperback versions on sale this fall) at a panel called Bat-Manga! Chip Kidd and the Secret History of Batman in Japan. In the book—and the presentation—Chip will be investigating official Batman manga stories from 1966 Japan which [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
This week, I ruminate on Democracy in Comics, Osamu Tezuka, and Meth-head Batman. Part One: You can do it! One thing that I love about comics is the fact that anyone can do it. Anyone can sit down with a blank sheet of paper, a fresh window on their computer, a stack of magazine clippings, etc, [...]
Neilalien (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Ah, the trials and tribulations of being a boutique comics publisher. We recently had two articles that peered into that issue. First up, Doug Wolk offers a profile of relative newcomer Secret Acres, who had a strong buzz going on at MoCCA this year: Secret Acres is still working out the details on how it’s going [...]
sketches n' stuff (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Here's one of the many plane doodles I did at this years mocca festival in NYC. I got excited about adding a video so here it is. Enjoy. Oh and come by and visit the Out Of Picture booth in San Diego this year and we'll do all kinds of doodling in your books =] video by the freckliest, kristin labriola
http://kungfurodeo.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Just wanted to quickly say, I ran into this publisher at the MoCCA Art Festival a couple weekends ago, and man do they do some classy, neat-o stuff. All their books at the moment are smart pulp, combining lucha libre with noir, horror, and good humor — but hey, that’s pretty goddam... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Ben Towle wraps up Heroes Con with a detailed list of observations and he confronts what many people saw as low sales for indies at the show in a very constructive way: Smile! It’s probably a bit of a regional bias, but I definitely saw some residents of Indie Island who really gave off a [...]
Phantasmaphile (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Wilhelm Staehle from "Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre" Another MoCCA discovery I made is the brilliant Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre series of Wilhelm Staehle. As acerbic as they are gorgeous, these eccentric pieces are ocular delights.
Phantasmaphile (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
I've been meaning to write about the MoCCA Art Festival, which I attended a couple weeks back. It is a spectacular annual showcase of indie (and not so indie) comics and artsy small presses, very rocknroll. Every year I wander...
Singapore News Alternative (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Thecheers.org 22 Jun 2008 It all started with the brand name MOCCA, local television station MediaCorp’s “search, buy, sell and connect” website. An advertisement saw three slender and attractive girls with placards in place of the position of their boobs, with pure flesh peeking out at the top and bottom of their figures. A muscular man was also featured on national television wearing only his undies....
Random Thoughts (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
We met at Bethesda Terrace in Central Park yesterday for sketchcrawl . We had a great turnout, around 16 people. In addition to some people finding out about it at MoCCA, my friend Gina cross-posted info about it to her meetup group, so we had a number of new crawlers. It was a beautiful day and we moved over near the bandshell and skateboarders to find some shade. After lunch at EJ's diner where...
Comic Book Conventions.com (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Scoop posts photos from the show. Follow the link...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
This weekend’s big event is definitely Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC — and The Beat will be there. This is our only non-local con appearance this year aside form San Diego, and we can’t wait. Shelton Drum throws a good old fashioned comics convention with a laid back vibe that have made it a [...]
Dinosaur Comics (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
about - archive - cast - comments - sexy exciting merchandise - messageboard - search - reader art - links Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0 June 10th, 2008 : MoCCA was a lot of fun! AS USUAL. Jeff Rowland thinks that just because I got in at 5 in the morning he can draw me all stubbley and bleary-eyed , and it turns out he is actually correct in that matter. Thanks to...
