3/05/2009
3/01/2009
2/13/2009
2/08/2009
1/25/2009
1/24/2009
News
I've decided that Or Else (the series) is done. It doesn't make sense to do it this way anymore. Drawn and Quarterly have been great and I want to thank them. For sure I will still be putting out a lot of books and zines, forever, so save your pennies, and watch this space for more news as it becomes available. Thanks for reading.(Or Else #6 will not be published, but this was going to be the cover.)
1/14/2009
1/13/2009
Cat Shop News
New at the Catastrophe Shop:
1.6.08
The Factoids of Life
New Construction #2
Ganges #2
Fight or Run: Shadow of the Chopper
1.6.08
The Factoids of Life
New Construction #2
Ganges #2
Fight or Run: Shadow of the Chopper
1/11/2009
1/02/2009
12/27/2008
12/19/2008
11/17/2008
Promotional
I'm honored to have my story "The Curse" included in the wonderful Anthology of Graphic Fiction, volume 2. Here's a link to a promotional video where Ivan Brunetti talks about how comics force us to have empathy for the entire universe.
11/09/2008
10/09/2008
Leon Scoops ABC News
ABC News would have known about this had they read The Leon Tapes."...Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of "cuts" that were available on each operator's computer.
"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News."
9/25/2008
The Factoids of Life
The Factoids of LifeAmazing Facts...and Beyond! with Leon Beyond
Treasury of Triviastrips
- with Beyondex and silk-screened cover.
Available at SPX, APE, and on the web
in a few weeks.
9/20/2008
New Construction #2: St.L THUM
New bookNEW CONSTRUCTION #2
"a newsletter of cartooning issues and concerns"
Available at SPX and APE
and on the web in the next few weeks.
This issue contains a short article about "thumbnailing"
and an exhibition of thumbz by Dan Zettwoch, Ted May, and me.
9/16/2008
9/06/2008
Strip Scanners
There's a series of posts this week at Barnacle Press
with a wealth of old newspaper comics from their archives.
We're grateful!
Ten Must Read Classics
Ten Lesser-Known Works by Major Cartoonists
Ten for Kids
Ten Particularly Odd Strips
Ten More Must-See Strips
Ten More Heartily Recommended Strips
9/03/2008
Holy Negative Capability
"...In the responses to The Dark Knight I posted here, it was Wayne Wedge who captured the way that the film functions as a hyper-object in late capitalism. The very multivalence of The Dark Knight, its capacity to generate radically different interpretations, to elicit discourse, is what makes it a highly efficient meta-commodity. A text with a single monologic Message, even supposing such a thing could exist, would not be able to 'provoke the debate' which capitalist culture now feeds upon.
It not only that a cultural object can be opposed to capitalism on the level of content, but it serve it on the level of form; one could convincingly go further and argue that the ideology of capitalism is now 'anti-capitalist' (sic)..."
-The nefarious kritical kriminal k-punk traps the Batman in his trickiest trap yet! Will this mean curtains for capitalism? Tune in next time, same Bat Time, same...Bat...Cha[click]
(img via)
8/13/2008
7/28/2008
7/24/2008
7/23/2008
7/14/2008
Using Diagrams
While trying to read and make sense of Gravity's Rainbow, Caleb Crain made some diagrams, and he recently posted some of those here. It's not that the results are in themselves are particularly link-worthy, it's that diagramming is good and we should all use diagrams as tools for brain work, and so let's remember to use 'em! Crain explains that even though the diagrams probably won't "be useful to any other readers, but they were useful to me back then, partly as a memory aid, but mostly in the way of channeling and venting what felt like a possession."
7/09/2008
The Adventure of the Earth
I've been meaning to do this for a long time...here's a look at the beautiful and bewildering cover to The Wonderful World : The Adventure of the Earth We Live On. by James Fisher. Art Editor FHK Henrion. (1954, Hanover). Many grateful thanks to Alex Holden for sending me a copy of this book that's in much better shape than my old one.
Judging by the cover, Earth sure has some crazy adventures!
Here's a link to some more scans from this book. I hope to add more soon.
7/08/2008
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