| Things to see: 6/21/10 | |
| Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under video, Tim Lane, Things to see, Steven Weissman, Steve Brodner, Stephen DeStefano, Robert Crumb, Richard Sala, Renee French, Popeye, Peter Bagge, Paul Hornschemeier, Mort Walker, Michael Kupperman, Mark Kalesniko, Marco Corona, Kevin Huizenga, JR Williams, Josh Simmons, Jon Adams, Johnny Ryan, john kerschbaum, John Hankiewicz, Jim Flora, Hans Rickheit, Gene Deitch, Frank Santoro, fashion, Daniel Clowes, Anders Nilsen | 21 Jun 2010 9:59 PM |
Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Gonked, Glooked & Slurped! share a recently-acquired original Eightball page by Daniel Clowes
• Michael Kupperman hijacks Beetle Bailey — according to this recent TCJ article I think Mort Walker would approve
• The Paris Review presents a gallery of Robert Crumb self-portraits through the years (via The Comics Reporter)
• It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy" from John Kerschbaum
• J.R. Williams has zillions of great prints for sale at his new J.R.'s Prints of Darkness site
• Robot 6 reports: Jon Adams does a Chick-style strip to promote a video game; also from Jon, a new Truth Serum strip
• From Kevin Huizenga: a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip; new Fight or Run action; new New Construction business
• From Steven Weissman: this week's "I, Anonymous" and three more Post-Its
• Three ironically-labeled "copies from famous artists " from the sketchbook of John Hankiewicz
• Aha! All those teasers from Frank Santoro have been leading up to this, "page 1 of a comic for Internazionale, an Italian independent weekly newsmagazine. Coming soon!"
• Speaking of Internazionale, Marco Corona has an illustration in this week's issue
• Richard Sala presents the original art for the cover of Evil Eye #10 and a 1987 rarity called "Haircut"
• From Tim Lane, this week's Belligerent Piano and this illustration for the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
• On the Jim Flora Art Blog: Electromechanical Design sales brochure; a children's book illustration detail; half of a 1950s business card illustration (above); and a link to the 1959 UPA animated adaptation of Flora's The Fabulous Firework Family produced by Gene Deitch
• Johnny Ryan's Lovecraftian creatures, coming soon to a Stinckers machine near you
• "Girl in Black Dress and Scarf " by Mark Kalesniko
• It's Paul Hornschemeier's new weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop and it incorporates the logo from his 2007 art show at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
• From Josh Simmons, various Quackers blog shenanigans and Randy Gander tomfoolery with Wendy Chin (including her version of Josh's "Jesus Christ" from his Mome story of the same name)
• So much great new stuff from Renee French — just go to her main blog page, there's too much to link individually
• Buy a drawing of two Popeyes punching by Stephen DeStefano to benefit Gulf Coast cleanup
• Speaking of the Gulf, this is just one of a trio of videos by Steve Brodner on the topic, including his latest segment on Need to Know on PBS
• Two of Anders Nilsen's entries in Post-It V
• Page 29 of Hans Rickheit's Ectopiary