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Category >> Steve Ditko
Daily links: 12/8/08
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Tim Lane , The Comics Journal , Steve Ditko , Robert Pollard , reviews , Popeye , Paul Karasik , Pat Moriarity , Miss Lasko-Gross , Mark Newgarden , Love and Rockets , Los Bros Hernandez , Linda Medley , Lilli Carré , Kevin Huizenga , Jules Feiffer , Humbug , Dash Shaw , Blake Bell , Bill Willingham , Bill Mauldin , Beasts
8 Dec 2008 1:03 AM
Holy figs, this daily link post looks like one of my weekly roundups of old:
• PopMatters takes a quick look at Robert Pollard's Town of Mirrors
• PopMatters again, on Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe: The WWII Years
• Iconoctlán examines The Comics Journal #293 (en Español; Google translation )
• The Austin American-Statesman 's lengthy roundup of coffee-table book holiday recommendations includes Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe: The WWII Years and Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell
• NuVoid wraps up the 2008 output of Robert Pollard, including Town of Mirrors
• Did you know that if you buy the Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943 (Vol. 3) DVD set you also get an exclusive Popeye mini-comic we produced with a story from our upcoming Popeye Vol. 4 collection? Booksteve noticed
• Chris Barat reviews Popeye Vol. 3: "Let's You and Him Fight!"
• Forward talks to Miss Lasko-Gross for a profile of Jewish women cartoonists
• The North Adams Transcript looks at Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane
• The St. Louis Post-Dispatch includes Abandoned Cars , Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell, and Jules Feiffer's Explainers on its list of "Best Books of 2008: Graphic Literature"
• Beard reviews Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers
• Tropismes (l'Appartement) is yet another French site looking at Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw (Google translation )
• Terri Torres is excited for the new issue of Linda Medley's Castle Waiting
• On the USA TODAY Pop Candy blog , Whitney Matheson declares Lilli Carré's The Lagoon is the "Best book [she] read" last week
• Cartoonist Mark Kaufman is looking forward to our Humbug collection
• Dustin Harbin's top 10 "Best Comics of 2008" includes Ganges #2 by Kevin Huizenga, Popeye Vol. 3 , and Bottomless Belly Button
• Here's video from Pat Moriarity 's art opening at 108 Occidental Gallery in Seattle, with music from Pat and his son Jack
• Bill Willingham looks back at Coventry
• Wayno talks about contributing to our forthcoming collection of 1980s "New Wave" minicomics
• On the Comics Comics blog , Mark Newgarden & Paul Karasik need your help in dating an Ernie Bushmiller Nancy strip
• Dan Zettwoch discusses his contribution to Beasts! Book 2
• The Dallas Morning News reports on an exhibit of Bill Mauldin cartoons at the 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City
• Mark Mattson compares our annual catalog favorably to the Sears Wish Book -- did you get yours?
WizardUniverse.com has an exclusive excerpt from Blake Bell's book about Steve Ditko.
Go, read ;
come back and buy .
The following will be airing between 8pm and 9pm GMT on AUGUST 14th on the 'Clear Spot' on ResonanceFM.
Strip!: The Strange world of Steve Ditko James DC hosts a 1 hour special round-table discussion about the recent book Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko , released by Fantagraphics books. James is in discussion with comic book artists and Ditko experts Steve Marchant, Mark Stafford and the author of the book, Blake Bell.
Strip! Special, 7pm - 8pm GMT, Thursday August 14th, globally streamed HERE or listen in the UK on Resonance 104.4 FM (London).
The show will also be available for podcast/download a few weeks after airing HERE .
The First Post has a free 12-page excerpt up of THE BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON by Dash Shaw.
By the way, Fanta has just gone back to press on BBB, which we're thrilled about. I was thinking this morning that the two artists we've published of late with perhaps the most "heat" at the moment are Dash Shaw and Steve Ditko. Which then reminded me of Dash's unpublished Dr. Strange strip (see below), and inevitably led me to one conclusion: that really, Marvel Comics should give Dr. Strange to Fantagraphics. Marvel doesn't know what the fuck to do with him. Give him to us and we'll start an ongoing Dr. Strange anthology with new work by Los Bros, Dash Shaw, Daniel Clowes, Kim Deitch, and other longtime Ditko fans, and include reprints of the classic Ditko Strange as well. Joe Quesada, it is your moral duty to make this happen.
Blake Bell is the subject of Tom Spurgeon's weekly interview feature this morning , and it might be the best (and longest) interview with Blake that I've read yet. If you like
Ditko , a must read.
Our pal James DC hosts a 1 hour special round-table discussion about Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko . James talks with comic book artists Brendan McCarthy and Steve Marchant and the author of the book, Blake Bell .
The show premieres 5pm - 6pm GMT, Thursday 31st July on Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / Globally streamed at www.resonancefm.com
The show will also be available for podcast/download a few weeks after airing. Check www.resonancefm.com for more info. We'll do our best to remind you when it happens.
Blake Bell is taking readers "behind the scenes" of the production of his book , STRANGE & STRANGER: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO . There's a couple of interviews so far, and many more on the way - including scans of the entire notebook of Cat Yronwode's interview with Ditko's brother Pat back in 1983. Whoa!
Here's two recent podcast interviews with STRANGE & STRANGER: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO author Blake Bell . First up is BlogTalkRadio and second is FanboyRadio . If you like Ditko, you must listen. There are no shades of grey here.
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