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Tweet Just in time for Halloween, Rabid Rabbit is hosting a Horrific Happy Hour this Thursday(!) in celebration of our newest issue: “The Horror of Rabid Rabbit: Oh, The Horrifying Horror!” Please join us, once again, for a few hours of Murderously Malevolent Merry-making, Demonically Dreadful Debauchery and Ghoulishly Good times at Beauty Bar (see [...]
Tweet Much more at the Pumpkin Gutter site. [Link via my mom.]
Tweet New Yorkers are in for a real treat tonight as Kim Deitch does a special showing of toons from his vault: Kim Deitch will host a Cartoon Movie Night featuring rarely seen animated cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s hand-picked for the occasion from Deitch’s own personal collection. This period of animation inspired Deitch’s [...]
Tweet We were surprised no one had mentioned that this week’s New Yorker is the annual Cartoon issue, but Chris Mautner has a nice rundown of its contents. The item of interest to most (and one that is not online) is a four-page strip by Robert, Aline, and Sophie Crumb, but among the Internet-accessible features, [...]
TweetHave you ever wanted to meet the artist of WATCHMEN? Tonight could be your chance: Midtown Comics in New York City is proud to announce a signing event with acclaimed comic book artist Dave Gibbons, to celebrate the release of his new retrospective work, Watching the Watchmen, from Titan Books. In 1986, Mr. Gibbons collaborated [...]
Tweet A comic strip by African-American cartoonist Keith Knight that used the N-word has caused an apology at Montclair State University. The episode of Knight’s syndicated weekly comic, The K Chronicles, adapted a real-life incident that used the racial epithet in relation to Barack Obama. The appearance of the strip in the school paper upset [...]
TweetOnce you start digging a bit into Japanese culture, you often come across reports that there are a lot of single people in Japan. According to one survey, 1 in 4 Japanese men between 30-34 is a virgin. The situation isn’t much better for the girls, where 1 in 4 has not had sex for [...]
Tweet Last week’s lively debate at Comics Comics over the merits of David Heatley’s MY BRAIN IS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN has drawn a point-by-point response from Heatley himself. First off, I’m really proud of this book. I spent almost five years on it. It’s not perfect by any stretch and I’m sure it will be [...]
Tweet § Must read! The Boston Globe interviews Rick Keene, whose job it is to clean up old comics for those expensive archive editions. His ingenuity at the computer has made it possible to bring back stories once “considered ‘lost,’ ” said John Clark, editor-in-chief for Gemstone Publishing’s Disney comic books, which Keene also restores. [...]
TweetThree spooky options to announce this morning, one kid-friendly, two…very, very NOT kid-friendly. ¶ Paramount has snapped up the rights to Dave Roman’s AGNES QUILL. The book, illustrated by artists including Jason Ho, Jeff Zornow and Raina Telgemeier, has Thor Freudenthal (“Hotel for Dogs”) attached to direct, and Evan Spiliotopoulos on script. The book is [...]
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