Category >> Noah Van Sciver
Things to see: 8/6/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Tony Millionaire , Tim Lane , Things to see , Steven Weissman , Steve Brodner , Sergio Ponchione , Richard Sala , Renee French , Ray Fenwick , Paul Hornschemeier , Noah Van Sciver , Maakies , Lilli Carré , Kevin Huizenga , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , John Hankiewicz , Joe Kimball , Jim Flora , Jaime Hernandez , Gabrielle Bell , Frank Santoro , fan art , Drew Weing , Derek Van Gieson , Debbie Drechsler , Dame Darcy , Bob Fingerman , audio , Archer Prewitt
6 Aug 2010 1:32 PM
Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Our pals at Presspop share this, the cover illustration by Archer Prewitt for the novelization of the upcoming film Morio (Toilet )
• Gabrielle Bell kicks off "Season 3" of Lucky with the first part of her San Diego Comic-Con diary ; also, her previously-serialized strip "Manifestation" is presented in its entirety at What Things Do
• Dame Darcy 's Black Madonna painting and other new stuff in her latest blog update
• Bob Fingerman illustrates "Queen of Mean" Lisa Lampanelli for Royal Flush magazine, plus more quick sketches
• Maggie -through-the-years fan art by Mike Hawthorne at Comic Twart
• Tony Millionaire posted this week's Maakies on Facebook while his new website is being built (if that last link doesn't work try this )
• Paul Hornschemeier 's latest t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop
• A couple of teasers from Part 4 of Derek Van Gieson 's Mome serial "Devil Doll"
• This week's "I, Anonymous " by Steven Weissman
• Life drawing studies by John Hankiewicz
• Collage and some guidelines from Frank Santoro
• Drew Weing 's Set to Sea pages 118 119 & 120
• Richard Sala presents his strip from the July 1994 issue of Pulse magazine
• Tim Lane extends Belligerent Piano into the audio realm with "The Cowboy's Lament"
• A preview of the next Jim Flora art print, available for pre-order
• Debbie Drechsler sketches some lakeshore fauna
• From Lilli Carré : sketchbook pages , illustrations for Kordian , and a story for Chicago Magazine
• A quartet of recent illustrations by Sergio Ponchione , including one for 826 Brooklyn
• Noah Van Sciver vs. Batman
• From Josh Simmons , The Golden Quackers
• From Renee French , a couple of rocks and a peek
• Steve Brodner thinks maybe it's about time for the President to start losing his cool . Also, a grocery store incident as political allegory
• From Kevin Huizenga , a couple of hot panels and a tale of narrowly-averted disaster
• A new Truth Serum strip by Jon Adams
• Joe Kimball shares several glimpses of a whole bunch of stuff on his Flickr page
• Two recent Ray Fenwick illustrations for Threadless and Cottage Life magazine respectively
Things to see: 7/19/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Tom Kaczynski , Tim Lane , Things to see , Steven Weissman , Steve Brodner , rock , Robert Goodin , Renee French , Noah Van Sciver , Laura Park , Kevin Huizenga , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , john kerschbaum , John Hankiewicz , Joe Kimball , Jim Woodring , Hans Rickheit , Gary Panter , Drew Weing , Derek Van Gieson , Debbie Drechsler
18 Jul 2010 11:31 PM
Periodic clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Robert Goodin presents an outtake page from his story "The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung" in Mome Vol. 19
• Gary Panter announces a new Jimbo minicomic
• Jim Woodring presents two Frank favorites, Frank in Frizland and Manhog's Holiday , now in full painted color
• It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy " from John Kerschbaum
• From Kevin Huizenga , a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond , new Fight or Run action, and more process at New Construction
• From Steven Weissman , this week's "I, Anonymous " and from his sketchbook chopper trike & portait of D. Clowes etc.
• From John Hankiewicz , four versions of two figures
• Drew Weing 's Set to Sea pages 110 & 111
• The latest installment of Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane
• Debbie Drechsler draws hawks and other birds at the cemetery ("Cemetery Hawks" — there's your new band name)
• Noah Van Sciver has a plan
• Laura Park & friends "enjoy" summer together
• Josh Simmons gets Woodring-esque with the Haunted Quacker ; plus shark attack Quacker (with Wendy Chin), Ecstatic Quacker , Big Time Quacker
• From Renee French : big worm , running man , fly baby , bulb neck , little kid , cutaway hair rock
• Steve Brodner remembers Gerald Ford
• Page 33 of Hans Rickheit 's Ectopiary ; also, he reveals his drawing process
• Tom Kaczynski draws the Lightning Bolt show
• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
• Joe Kimball posts a couple more concert posters
• Things to Hear Dept: Stream 5 new songs by Derek Van Gieson 's band Ebersole Versus Carberry on their MySpace page
Things to see: 7/13/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Tom Kaczynski , Things to see , The Comics Journal , Steven Weissman , Stephen DeStefano , Sophie Crumb , Sergio Ponchione , Robert Goodin , Richard Sala , Renee French , Popeye , Peanuts , Paul Hornschemeier , Noah Van Sciver , Mome , merch , Mark Kalesniko , Lorenzo Mattotti , Laura Park , Kevin Huizenga , Josh Simmons , Jim Flora , Jim Blanchard , Hans Rickheit , Frank Santoro , fashion , Drew Weing , Debbie Drechsler , Dash Shaw , Charles M Schulz , Bob Fingerman
13 Jul 2010 3:51 PM
Periodic (and tardy... so busy) clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Lorenzo Mattotti World Cup illustrations posted at the Forbidden Planet International Blog
• Bob Fingerman posts a couple of concept illustrations for his in-progress prose novel The Hell of It
• Dash Shaw posts some storyboards for his in-progress animated film The Ruined Cast
• Last week's "I, Anonymous " spot by Steven Weissman ; also, if you want to see the scanned version of the current Barack Hussein Obama strip, it's here ; also, the greatest Little League team photo ever
• From Frank Santoro : a subway sketch , a color-matching analysis swatch thingy , and a funny collage
• Noah Van Sciver recounts helping John Porcellino move, and at Covered , takes on an Al Feldstein EC classic
• From Kevin Huizenga : psychedelic explorations with Photoshop filters and aspects of McSkulls at Fight or Run ; a helpful diagram at New Construction ; and Glenn Ganges roughs at his flagship The Balloonist
"When you Orcs are through fighting, you can clean up this tell, it is a pig sty and a disgrace. Do you hear me? Just look at this mess– skulls and guts everywhere. Do you act like this at home?"
• The latest prose burst from Gary Panter
• Drew Weing 's Set to Sea pages 108 & 109
• Richard Sala presents 3 original pages from Mad Night (and they're for sale )
• A mystery: is this lettering the work of Jim Flora ?
• Jim Blanchard paints Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
• Debbie Drechsler sketches birds and mammals
• A Kevin Nowlan spot illo for The Comics Journal , 1981 (anyone who can identify the issue number, please leave a comment)
• Mark Kalesniko 's second take on the Girl in Orange Stripes
• Sergio Ponchione posts part of the "bonus track" strip he did for the book La Legge del Cane by Jake La Furia & Guè Pequeno
• It's Paul Hornschemeier 's majestic weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop
• Feel better soon, Laura Park
• From Josh Simmons & co., Quacker Supreme & Tiniest Quacker
• From Renee French : fly , hair rock , doodle , dude , rock
• Sophie Crumb posts a mess of new drawings and teases her upcoming book
• Stephen DeStefano talks about his Popeye art & design work (such as the DVD illustrations above) with Jason Anders of Fulle Circle
• Page 32 of Hans Rickheit 's Ectopiary ; also, a "forgotten Cochlea & Eustachia drawing " that makes a dandy desktop wallpaper
• Robert Goodin presents an excerpt from "The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung," his story in Mome Vol. 19 (out tomorrow!)
• Tom Kaczynski 's sketch and report from the Twin Cities Zinefest
• At the Rosebud Archives blog , another vintage Peanuts ad sheet
Thanks to Mome and Comics Journal contributor Noah Van Sciver for sending me the new issue of his self-published comic Blammo after I half-jokingly entreated him to. I'm happy to report that it's a real good read! There's something for everyone: an excellent character study of a juggalo loser; heartfelt self-deprecating autobio stuff; weirdo funny-animals; ultraviolent action pitting punk rockers vs. giant lizards; and the proverbial much more. Noah's artwork is appealingly sketchy and hits all the right notes. If you have a hankering for the golden age of alternative comics and the one-person-anthology periodical, Blammo will hit the spot.
Things to see: 7/8/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under video , Tim Lane , Things to see , T Edward Bak , Steve Brodner , Rosebud Archives , Robert Goodin , Renee French , Peanuts , Noah Van Sciver , Mark Kalesniko , Marco Corona , Lilli Carré , Kevin Huizenga , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , Johnny Ryan , John Hankiewicz , Jim Flora , Hans Rickheit , Gary Panter , Frank Santoro , Eleanor Davis , Drew Weing , Derek Van Gieson , Debbie Drechsler , Dash Shaw , Charles M Schulz , Anders Nilsen
7 Jul 2010 10:06 PM
Periodic clips & strips (normal posting schedule returns next week, probably) — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• On the Rosebud Archives blog , a rare Peanuts promotional flyer (Rosebud Archives at Fantagraphics )
• A video from Dash Shaw ... some kind of teaser or something? Even if it's just a joke, it's pretty funny
• T. Edward Bak , Lilli Carré and John Hankiewicz (top to bottom) all have pieces in Pony Club Gallery's current print show The Great Outdoors (available for purchase here )
• This is one part of a three-piece screenprint by Eleanor Davis for a print show at GRNY
• A painting (background?) and collage by Frank Santoro
• From Kevin Huizenga : Burier vs. Exer at Fight or Run
"The doleful sirens are beginning to wail over on the ziggarat. Feeding time."
• Another short story from Gary Panter
• Drew Weing 's Set to Sea , pages 106 & 107
• A whole bunch of watercolor portrait sketches by Marco Corona
• This week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane introduces a new character
• Mid-1950s magazine and record cover details by Jim Flora
• New Johnny Ryan art for sale on Comic Art Collective's recent additions page
• New bird sketches by Debbie Drechsler here , here and here
• "Girl in Orange Stripes " by Mark Kalesniko
• From Noah Van Sciver , a "homeless comic " and some old Blammo pages
• From Josh Simmons & Co., numerous Quackers and Randy Gander updates
• From Renee French : bird , dog , iPhone sketch (?) , worm , woolyman , bird
• From Steve Brodner , birthday greetings to Calvin Coolidge & George W. Bush , plus Yankee Stadium sketches
• A few more things to consider from Anders Nilsen
• Page 31 of Hans Rickheit 's Ectopiary ; also, this is NSFW
• Robert Goodin draws the Fantastic Four — more please!
• A bunch of new drawings by Derek Van Gieson
• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Things to see: 7/2/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under video , Tim Lane , Things to see , Steven Weissman , Steve Brodner , Renee French , Paul Hornschemeier , Noah Van Sciver , Nate Neal , Marco Corona , Kevin Huizenga , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , john kerschbaum , John Hankiewicz , Jim Flora , Gipi , Gary Panter , Frank Santoro , Drew Weing , Debbie Drechsler , Dame Darcy
2 Jul 2010 2:28 PM
Periodic clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Set to Sea pages 104 and 105 from Drew Weing
• It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy " from John Kerschbaum
• Lots of Kevin Huizenga updates: a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip, Fight or Run 's Chopper at rest; and minicomic sketchbooks at New Construction (not to mention a peek at his new D&Q book)
• A heartbreaking "I, Anonymous " from Steven Weissman
• Sketches of sculptures by Aristide Maillol by John Hankiewicz
• A scene with power lines by Frank Santoro
• New crafts (including this vampire wedding cake topper) and photos from Portugal in Dame Darcy 's latest blog update
"THEN, OUTA NOWHERE… Grunt. Shriek. Bash. Crash. Ook. Ook!"
• A new short short story from Gary Panter
• A luscious new story page and this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane
• A 1967 Mexican cityscape by Jim Flora
• Debbie Drechsler sketches squirrels
• It's Paul Hornschemeier 's new weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop — I can just hear the funky theme song
• Noah Van Sciver is waiting on tenterhooks to hear if the story this page is from has been accepted for Mome (sorry Noah, I got no scoop)
• Quackers silliness here and here and Randy Gander raunchiness here and here from Josh Simmons & cohort
• From Renee French : photo , platform , tire swing , hair rock
• Steve Brodner 's tribute to Sen. Robert Byrd
• Something new from a work in progress, an article for Il Post , and a video about the Mafia by Gipi
• Nate Neal , payin' the bills
• Two illustrations by Marco Corona for Internazionale
• Two new installments of Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Things to see: 6/28/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Things to see , rock , Noah Van Sciver , Nate Neal , Mark Kalesniko , Hans Rickheit , Eleanor Davis , Drew Weing , Drew Friedman , Debbie Drechsler , Dash Shaw , Daniel Clowes , Anders Nilsen
28 Jun 2010 3:37 PM
Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Dash Shaw identifies this only as "scrap "
• Mark Kalesniko presents the original art for the cover of Mail Order Bride
• A short autobio strip from poor Noah Van Sciver
• From Renee French : beetle , trap , trap
• Page 30 of Hans Rickheit 's Ectopiary ; also, this is NSFW
• Why not go look at some Drew Friedman classics over at Golden Age Comic Book Stories ?
• Get a daily dose of Dan Clowes at Fuck Yeah Daniel Clowes
• Anders Nilsen presents some things to consider
• Two great things that go great together: Eleanor Davis artwork on the cover of the next Elf Power record, as revealed by Pitchfork — via Drew Weing
• Debbie Drechsler draws a broken butterfly
Things to see: 6/25/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under video , Tony Millionaire , Tim Lane , Things to see , Steven Weissman , Steve Brodner , Richard Sala , Renee French , Ray Fenwick , Paul Hornschemeier , Noah Van Sciver , Maakies , Laura Park , Josh Simmons , john kerschbaum , John Hankiewicz , Gahan Wilson , fashion , Drew Friedman , Derek Van Gieson , Anders Nilsen
25 Jun 2010 2:34 PM
Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• The New Yorker 's current Caption Contest cartoon is by Gahan Wilson
• Drew Friedman 's Spitzer-take for The New York Observer
• It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy " from John Kerschbaum
• This week's clammy Maakies from Tony Millionaire
• The Daily Cross Hatch presents a guest strip from Noah Van Sciver
• This week's "I, Anonymous " and some fighter jets by Steven Weissman
• A page from a comic-in-progress by John Hankiewicz
• Richard Sala presents the original art for the endpapers of his first book Hypnotic Tales — a larger version is linked here
• It's this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane
• It's Paul Hornschemeier 's new weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop and it features the logo for his upcoming series from Fantagraphics
• Quackers and Randy Gander funny business from Josh Simmons & co.
• This guy , plus a trap and a kung fu fly (?) from Renee French
• Renee also makes her first guest appearance at the always-great Trubble Club (where Laura Park & Lilli Carré are also known to hang out)
• Video : "How to Draw Judge Martin Feldman" by Steve Brodner
• Anders Nilsen presents photos of his thesis installation from 1996
• Two new batches of drawings from Derek Van Gieson
• A pair of recent illustrations for the Globe & Mail by Ray Fenwick
• Laura Park 's recipe for kimchi cream cheese
Things to see: 6/14/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Things to see , T Edward Bak , Steven Weissman , Noah Van Sciver , Michael Kupperman , Mark Kalesniko , Marco Corona , Kevin Huizenga , Josh Simmons , Johnny Ryan , Jim Blanchard , Hans Rickheit , Gary Panter , Eleanor Davis , Derek Van Gieson
14 Jun 2010 4:40 PM
Periodic clips & strips - click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Whoa, how come I didn't know that Kevin Huizenga has a Fight or Run blog? Now I do, thanks to Sean T. Collins . Meanwhile, over on his main blog, a screenshot of a scan of something wild
• Michael Kupperman gives a blurry sneak peek of a work in progress (I took the liberty of bumping up the contrast)
• A new Johnny Ryan comic for Vice ; elsewhere, this
• A sketch for The Groovy Age of Horror by Josh Simmons (uh, NSFW) — via Sean T. Collins again; meanwhile, on Josh's own blog, a sketch of Malibu
• Post-It naughtiness by Steven Weissman ; elsewhere, sketchbook pages
• Speaking of Post-Its, here's 10 amazing ones from Eleanor Davis
• "White Cats of the Red Sea ," an illustration by Marco Corona
• Head to Jim Blanchard 's blog for the uncensored versions of his diseased Norwegians (and the story behind the censor bars)
• Girl in Fish Net Stockings by Mark Kalesniko
• If Noah Van Sciver knew my email address he'd probably be asking me to plug the new issue of his self-published comic Blammo — hey Noah, send me a copy and I'll think about it, cough cough
• From Renee French , Rock Hudson (ha ha), some embarrassment , and a dead bug photo
• Page 28 of Hans Rickheit 's Ectopiary
• Two introductory pages by Derek Van Gieson — oops, one more
• T. Edward Bak 's sea otter linocut print
• It ain't a cartoon but I'd be a fool not to link to this short prose story by Gary Panter
Things to see: 6/11/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Tim Lane , Things to see , Steven Weissman , Steve Brodner , Roger Langridge , Renee French , Paul Hornschemeier , Noah Van Sciver , life imitates comics , Laura Park , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , Johnny Ryan , John Hankiewicz , Jim Flora , Gary Panter , Gabrielle Bell , Frank Santoro , fashion , Ernie Bushmiller , Derek Van Gieson , Debbie Drechsler , Chris Ware , Andrice Arp , Abstract Comics
11 Jun 2010 3:04 PM
No-longer-daily clips & strips (we'll probably be posting these twice a week for the foreseeable future) — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
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Presspop 's limited-edition poster featuring the artwork from the slipcase of their Japanese edition of
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by
Chris Ware — it's an all-new strip!
• Gary Panter has reconfigured and updated his website ; details via his blog
• Life Imitates Comics Dept: Andrei Molotiu discovers "The first abstract comics candy bar " (it does look remarkably like one of his own strips)
• From Steven Weissman , two new Post-It Show previews, this week's "I, Anonymous " and a fantastic Covered entry (above)
• Also on Covered , Jon Adams 's delightfully cheeky homage to Chris Ware ; elsewhere, the new episode of Jon's Truth Serum
• Speaking of the Post-It Show, here's one by Andrice Arp along with more info about the exhibit
• Sketchbook silhouettes by John Hankiewicz
• Frank Santoro 's Italian job
• It's this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane
• Jim Flora illustrated Ohio for Fortune Magazine , 1947
• Damselflies & mushrooms from Debbie Drechsler
• Gabrielle Bell posts the second half of her France travel diary as well as Laura Park 's hilarious response thereto
• Paul Hornschemeier posts his newest Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop design and stumbles across his entry in a Nancy theme sketchbook which we've possibly featured on Flog before but it's worth another look
• Noah Van Sciver posts another excerpt from his work-in-progress The Hypo
• Josh Simmons introduces a new character at Quackers
• From Renee French , a head , a tube (photo), a bunny
• Steve Brodner plugs the documentary film Gasland
• Roger Langridge draws Barney Google
• More Tales of Abstraction House from Derek Van Gieson
• Johnny Ryan cat portrait