August 2010
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WatchVideo ©2010 Adriana Alba, song ©1976 R. Stevie Moore
I love R. Stevie Moore, and this song in particular…
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Box Brown, Box Brown, he draws pictures in boxes
© 2010 Box Brown, taken from “Pre-Need” a story from Everything Dies.
Box Brown, creator of Bellen! and general comics ace, has launched a new website in the form of Everything Dies. It’s a web counterpart to his print series of the same name which, for my sins, I have yet to get my hands on. Although I never really got into Bellen! (actually that’s not totally true:...
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More of #3, and a nice review
More preview panels from Smoo #3, all non-sequential like. The whole comic will be done and dusted in time for Thought Bubble in November. In other news, Richard Bruton has also written a review of Days over at the Forbidden Planet International blog (and don’t forget you can buy Days, and other comics, from selected Forbidden Planet International stores!). I can’t (without...
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Other people's things on a Monday
I’ve just discovered the work of John Martz, and I really rather like it. Here’s a strip from his time at TCAF in Toronto this year:
© John Martz 2010
I should also point out that my appreciation of his work has nothing to do with the fact the following quote from John’s bio could be describing me as both a child, and an adult. Nothing at all…
“As a child,...
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Read Comics in Public Day!
(image swiped from the here: I’m afraid I don’t know who the artist is)
While reading the Daily Cross Hatch today, I was (late as ever) pointed in the direction of a new (silly) enterprise known as ‘Read Comics in Public Day’. Dreamed up by Brian Heater and Sarah Morean, the concept is both simple and awesome. This is how they describe it:
We’re asking that everyone...
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We're off to see Calvin Johnson tonight...
(Photo scavenged from here. Credit: ©Tom Cops 2008*)
… and I’m mighty excited.
* Aside from taking nice photos, Tom is also one of My Two Toms, as well as playing in I Know I Have No Collar, and probably countless other bands. Well worth checking out him and the rest of the Stitch-Stitch gang.
