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Mome Vol. 18 - Spring 2010
by various artists; edited by Eric Reynolds

128-page color/b&w 7" x 9" softcover • $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-303-3

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The multiple Harvey and Eisner Award nominee returns for its fifth year. With this issue, the series has now featured over 2000 pages of comics in its four and half years of existence (2109, to be exact), which may be a record for an English-language alternative comics anthology. This issue's cover is by Nate Neal, who delivers "The Neurotic Nexus of Creation," a 15-page explication of the creative process. MOME 18 also includes the first new comic in several years by Dave Cooper, as well as the MOME debuts of Tim Lane, Ivan Brun, Joe Daly, and Jon Adams. Also returning are MOME stalwarts Lilli Carré, Ben Jones, Frank Santoro, Jon Vermilyea, Nicolas Mahler, Ted Stearn, Renée French, Conor O'Keefe, Derek Van Gieson, and T. Edward Bak.

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Daily clips & strips, catching up from MoCCA weekend (again, more catch-up tomorrow) — click through for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• Unless there's some kind of Glenn Ganges/Leon Beyond crossover in the works I kind of think Kevin Huizenga might have posted this drawing on the wrong blog by mistake

• Steven Weissman 's working on some more Stincker ideas

• See Ellen Forney's latest artwork, a collaborative installation with Jake Fennell titled Love Note, at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival opening April 30; Ellen has more info and an interview at her blog

• Prison Pit fan art seems to be becoming a thing. Johnny Ryan posted another piece, this time by Cliff Chiang — it's a cross-company crossover!

• In a similar-ish vein, Paul Hornschemeier uses the announcement of Strange Tales 2 from Marvel as an excuse to post these glum-looking hero-types

• Also from Paul, this Tina Fey/Liz Lemon illustration for the WSJ (plus the original blue-line/inks)

• Debbie Drechsler has been sketching all kinds of local fauna, including grebes, a turtle, a hummingbird, a woodpecker and an angry squirrel

• The conclusion of Gabrielle Bell's "Manifestation" and, as a bonus, the cover of her fictional adaptation of The S.C.U.M. Manifesto from the story at The Hypothetical Library

• "Blond Girl in a Black Dress" by Mark Kalesniko

• This is a highlight of the last few days' artblogging from Renee French; the Lego alleyway is another

Daily clips & strips -- click through for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• Via the Family blog, Gary Panter draws a chalk mural (YouTube link)

 A bunch of g-g-g-ghosts in development by Steven Weissman

• Sketchbook page by John Hankiewicz

• Some kind of stuff in progress by Frank Santoro

• An old Fantagraphics issue of Usagi Yojimbo gets the Covered treatment by Carla Rodgrigues

• Steve Lafler's 1980s Fantagraphics series Dog Boy is being serialized at CO2 Comics

• Google translates the title of this Marco Corona story excerpt as "Merits of Satan" (very NSFW)

• Johnny Ryan presents a bit of Prison Pit fan art by Markus Toivonen

• Double whoa from Renee French

• Make way for Josh Simmons & Wendy Chin's Quackers

• Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary page 18, plus another unpublished Cochlea & Eustachia strip

Daily clips & strips — click through for improved/additional viewing:

• Wally Gropius gets animated by Tim Hensley — I had't previously noticed the floppy ascot action

• The fourth and fifth installments of Tim Lane's Belligerent Piano

• I love it when Renee French takes these lo-fi snapshots of her sketches

• Steve Brodner's latest — it seems I've been missing a lot of his stuff because I've been following the wrong feed, so there's lots to catch up on

• Johnny Ryan presents The Lighter Side of Being an Unstoppable Killing Machine

Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• At the Cold Heat blog, Frank Santoro (shown) and Ben Jones's layouts for the story in Mome 18

• Paul Hornschemeier's Green Day-on-Broadway illustration (and original line art) for his weekly WSJ spot

• At What Things Do, the concluding half of "Look Out for Big Della" from White Flower Day by Steven Weissman

• Too many creme eggs? How could I not post a fat bunny by Renee French?

• Now that Jon Adams is going to be in Mome I should start featuring his webcomic Truth Serum (and his new weekly strip Friendship Town for the San Francisco Chronicle when that starts showing up — via Robot 6)

• Our own Jason T. Miles came across this gallery of original vintage Comics Journal spot illustrations by Rik (a.k.a. Rick, a.k.a. Doc) Livingston, such as the swashbuckling robots from issue #49 above... and they're for sale at very reasonable prices

Daily clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:

• More kids-book spoofs from the dream team of Johnny Ryan & Julia Wertz

• Speaking of Johnny, he uploaded this E.T.-meets-Destro drawing without explanation

• Various sketch ephemera from Anders Nilsen

• Renee French celebrates 2 years of daily art-blogging today and the world reaps all the reward

Daily clips & strips -- click for improved viewing at the sources:

• Dame Darcy is selling framed original spot illustrations from Frightful Fairytales in her Etsy shop for crazy cheap (if they're not already all sold). How can you resist Zombie Jesus?

• Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond keeps bubbling along with Kevin Huizenga's latest

• Thank goodness Renee French is giving the teeth a rest — this guy's name is Rocky

• From Hans Rickheit, page 17 of Ectopiary and another unpublished Cochlea & Eustachia strip

• All those nutty Derek Van Gieson pages I've been posting here lately? They're part of his self-published Whiskey Is the Key Says Me, available at the MoCCA fest in a couple weeks

• What it says on the tin: Noah Van Sciver depicts scenes from a juggalo concert for the Denver Westword

• Steven Weissman's peanut butter & jelly ice cream sandwiches and the illustrated tags thereof (I sure hope he's not kidding about that recipe book)

• The continuation of Gabrielle Bell's new Lucky story "Manifestation"

• "Red Haired Girl in a Pattern Vest" by Mark Kalesniko

Daily clips & strips — click for improved viewing at the sources:

• "The Bowery Hillbillies" — Drew Friedman's cover illo for this week's New York Observer

• Laura Park continues her Geek Love illustrations at Picture Book Report

• Almost missed these Johnny Ryan/Nick Gazin jam comics at Vice (thanks Sean T. Collins)

• Presented without context by Olivier Schrauwen

• Renee French's mouth drawings continue to skeeve me out, yet I can't look away

• At What Things Do , read the first part of "Look Out for Big Della," excerpted from Steven Weissman's White Flower Day

• Some lucky 5th-grader is getting this in the mail from Steven Weissman

• Richard Sala presents "Strange Question," a story dated 1985/2003, in two parts

• A nautical-themed Jim Flora piece from around 20 years ago

• OMG, Gabrielle Bell draws Stephen Colbert in her new Lucky strip

• Mark Kalesniko presents a roughed-out page from Mail Order Bride

• Woo woo! It's Paul Hornschemeier's latest WSJ illustration

• More Renee French-drawn teeth. Gaaaah. Whew!

• A quarterly alternative comics anthology with a funny-sounding four-letter name? Gee, I wonder where they got that idea? Kidding aside, Robot 6 and The Beat report on pood, a newsprint broadsheet-format comic which debuts at MoCCA this year and features Sara Edward-Corbett (above), Hans Rickheit and many others

• Speaking of Hans Rickheit, here's his Ectopiary page 16 and an album cover commission

• "Pequeño Unicornio Tamale, Detective Privado Sobrenatural" by Derek Van Gieson

• "Meteorite swarm" (above) and "moulded gravity" from Tom Kaczynski

• Two more possibly-related pieces of evidence for the greatness of Johnny Ryan

Daily clips & strips — click for improved viewing at the sources:

• The conclusion of Steven Weissman's "This Already Happened" is up at What Things Do — you gotta go back and read the whole thing

• This week's "Belligerent Piano" by Tim Lane is up

• Gonna try to remember to send you to Tony Millionaire's new Maakies strip each week from now on

• OLMH is a new lithograph from John Hankiewicz

• Floating Moats is a new abstract minicomic/art zine from our own Tony Remple, available at Profanity Hill

• Nobody draws the mysterious object quite like Renee French

• Two recent illo jobs by Ray Fenwick