[I’m working backward from today which is the first day I’ve had any time to write.] We headed out bright and early (well, for a Friday, i.e. my non-teaching day) to hit the road for Massachusetts and the LitGraphic exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum. We had our press credentials in hand and a wide…
Category: comics
Publication: Tove Jansson
It was a nice surprise to come home after a long day of teaching (in which my students did not like Egil Skallagrimsson, grumble grumble) to find my latest publication on the kitchen table. This is the collection that grew from the conference in Oxford last March. My essay is “Roses, Beads and Bones: Gender,…
Double Blurbed!
I just opened my review copy of the next beautiful volume of Tove Jansson’s Moomin Comics from Drawn & Quarterly. I really don’t think they’re capable of making an unattractive book. The cover of the second volume looks more mysterious than the first and has such rich blue and green and pink hues. Just getting…
More Quiet
Over at Elena’s there are more pages of our comic, Jane Quiet. She writes, “It’s amazing the amount of time it’s taking to draw something which in the end, a person can pick up and read in about five minutes.” Ain’t it the truth? Years sometimes spent writing a book that an excited reader can…
Review: Stardust
I posted to the Horror list about the film first, as there’s been a conversation going on about it since its release. Suitably, I spoke of the horror elements first: A song by Take That! The horror, the horror! Without Robbie Williams even! Steve Bissette thought the Titanic nod was more horrifying, but I thought…
Jane Quiet
The ever fabulous Elena Steier has put up the first pages of our joint project Jane Quiet on her blog for the Goth Scouts. This came about because I thought it would be great to do a comic with Elena (I’m surrounded by all these wonderfully talented people, why not make better use of them?…
Celebrate America — with Comics!
The most remarkable woman ever known, Fantomah (above in one of her many exciting adventures, although you can’t see her blue skull here as gorillas tear apart an evil scientist [yes, gentle gorillas, but they’ve had a dastardly serum injected]): she’s just one of the characters created by Fletcher Hanks. The weird and wonderful art…
Tove Jansson Rediscovered
That’s the new title of the forthcoming collection from Cambridge Scholars Press on the lovely Finnish artist/author. Co-editor Kate McLoughlin says that with the latest round of corrections made, the book is on track for the September 1, 2007 publication date. Hurrah! This is the book for which I wrote on the beautiful Drawn &…
May Day with Jodorowsky
Today is the big day! After thirty years or more of wrangling, ABKCO films releases the big box set of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s films including El Topo and Holy Mountain. Once touted by people like John and Yoko, Jodorowsky’s films have been more talked about than seen since the brouhaha with rights began, so this package…
Spoofed!
Hee hee — a badge of honor: we have been spoofed in Elena‘s very fine comic strip, The Goth Scouts, today. Whoo hoo — we join the ranks of other proud spoofees like most of the Bush entourage (in a less kindly way), Johnny 10X and the joey Zone. It’s Walpurgisnacht (well, Walpurgismorgen?) which of…