June 26th, 2009
Henrik Rehr’s Rekjavik
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June 23rd, 2009
Fort Thunder Pile-Up
A collection of Providence comics from the past 15 years, assembled from the archives of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research. From Greg Cook, more images from the comics at his original post.
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June 19th, 2009
Sunspot
via universe today. A high-resolution model of a sunspot, but not the thing itself. Beautiful and eerie – it seems like scientists spend most of their time these days trying to understand the world by building increasingly complex virtual models of the world rather than by looking at the world itself.
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June 18th, 2009
Lizzy Wetzel at Women and their Work
Lizzy Wetzel has a solo show up at Women and their Work here in sweltering Austin, Texas. Here’s a sample of her previous work, from her website:
Thnx Ben.
Her solo show, called THE MEDICINE SHOW, is up until July 16th. Y’all should check it out!
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June 17th, 2009
Sundays 3 Production
The Sundays Anthology blog has an excellent post on how they produced the innovatively packaged Sundays Anthology #3. After some shots of screenprinting and collating, Joseph Lambert gives a great little tutorial on how they bound one of the books.
Maybe I’ll have to figure out some better bookbinding techniques for future comics …
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June 2nd, 2009
May 29th, 2009
More Cartoon Utopia Drawings
Ron Rege Jr posted some new drawings in his cartoon utopia series yesterday! It’s a really fantastic project, here’s a bit from his explanation of the ideas behind the project:
“At the beginning of 2008 – I started to create a series of numbered 4×6 inch drawings as an exercise – to start to flesh out ideas for a kind of ‘science fiction universe’ that I’ve been slowly imagining over the last few years – the idea of a ‘Cartoon Utopia…'”
I love the idea and I love the drawings, Ron Reje Jr has always been a force for good in this universe, everyone should buy the Cartoon Utopia mini he just put out!
Sam Gaskin @ Sunday Comics
The always hilarious Sam Gaskin has a bed-time comic over at the Sundays comics blog, go check it! [2022-07-06 edit: link is broken]
Fav line:
“I’m a pajama jamma!”
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May 19th, 2009
TCAF Panel on Inkstuds and Kirby’s 2001
Robin McConnell of Inkstuds has just posted the audio from a panel that he was on at TCAF with Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw, Robert Dayton, and Dustin Harbin. The panel’s an awesome discuss of how mainstream comics have influenced alternative comics (definitely true for me), especially work like late-seventies Jack Kirby and James Steranko.
One thing that Frank Santoro reminded me of (that I haven’t thought about since Austin Books started their renovation and hid their back issues, a problem that will soon be resolved!) is Jack Kirby’s late seventies 2001 series. The first couple issues are loosely based on concepts from the movie but then it just goes in this other wild direction of vaguely connected vignettes.
Here’s a sample page, pulled from Inkstuds:
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