Cartoonist Owen Cook relates the time he met rock and roll legend, Dickie Peterson. Dickie played bass and sang in Blue Cheer, an influential psychedelic metal band from the sixties.
Category Archives for COMICS
'I WANT YOU' by Lisa Hanawalt
Buenaventura Press just released Lisa Hanawalt’s debut comic, I Want You, and Lisa was nice enough to share some sample pages. Her self published book Stay Away From Other People won the Ignatz for “Outstanding Mini Comic” at this year’s Small Press Expo, and her new book is more of the same greatness. Her comics can be pretty grotesque, but they’re also totally poignant and hilarious. Reminds me of that time I ate mushrooms and thought I should quit my job to become a stand up comedian/philosopher, except she actually remembered everything and drew comics of it.
New Steve Weissman weekly comics
From Fantagraphics’ FLOG:
Each week we bring you a new strip from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang’s adventures, due from Fantagraphics in December 2009, plus maybe a few surprises!
'How To Draw' by Aiyana Udesen
Aiyana Udesen is an artist from San Francisco who lives with artist boyfriend Matt Furie, and two pet rats. Aiyana spends her time figuring out how to draw things and shares her process in her how-to-draw zines. She’s also in an art gang called Future Colors of America with Furie, and Albert Reyes. You can buy one of her latest books by visiting www.aiyanaville.com and dropping her an email.
KRAMERS ERGOT ZINE
From Blaise Larmee:
Hall Hassi made a minicomic version of Kramer’s Ergot 7, which she calls her ‘ke7 zine.’ The new size is only 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
It’s 96 xeroxed pages, really pushing the limit of the saddlestich binding but still holding together, and exactly like the original with some minor (I assume) accidents in printing. The only addition is the new ‘zine friendly’ title, ke7. Some pages transitioned better than others, here are some snaps.
DIAMOND COMICS 4 – Aidan Koch
The latest issue of Diamond is here! Featuring a magical mystery cover by Michael Deforge and weighing in at 32 pages, this is the coolest one yet. More than ever, I feel this issue represents the friendships and collaborations that Floating World has been graced with the past couple years.
Featuring over 7 artists from Portland, OR including Aidan Koch (who recently relocated to England). She created a new 2 pager for the latest issue of Diamond Comics, which she describes as a “spacey fantasy fashion comic”. Also she’s started a new online magazine called Work For Free.
Excerpt from FLOWING WELL Issue 4, edited/published by Leif Goldberg and Erin Rosenthal
Providence, Rhode Island-based artist-naturalists Leif Goldberg (National Waste, Paper Rodeo, Free Radicals) & Erin Rosenthal are editing and self-publishing “Flowing Well,” a homemade seasonal newsletter for friends. Here are two excerpts from the front and back of the current issue. Click on each image to enlarge…
“Flowing Well” subscription info: $6 per year (four issues). Send well-concealed bills to: LG & ER, 42 Temple St., Providence, RI 02905.
It’s time to make root beer!
'GWC' pt. 2 by Jesse Moynihan
It’s part 2 of GWC by Jesse Moynihan! Impossible distances become… possible. Catch up on part 1 here.
Jesse Moynihan self published 2 books in 2005, and ran a strip in the Philadelphia Weekly for a year and 1/2. He’s been featured in Meathaus and Canicola anthologies. This year, Bodega put out a larger volume of his work called Follow Me. Vice Magazine said about it: “Basically this comic is a vision into hell. I can’t think about it anymore, it’s given me nightmares.”
Meanwhile Jesse has been plugging away every Thursday on his webcomic, Forming, which is a sprawling account of human origins, transgender aliens, and ripped gods.
Paul Pope's DUNE
M’UAD DIB
Inspired and energized by his recent newspaper format work on Strange Adventures, Paul has been doing more big comics in the Wednesday Comics style. Read more on Paul Pope’s blog.
From PULPHOPE:
“It is said of Muad’dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. ‘That was its fate,’ he explained.” –From The Commentaries Of M’Uad Dib (DUNE, Frank Herbert).
I’ve always been struck by the taciturn Nietzschean aspects of M’uad Dib’s character as a leader. One of Frank Herbert’s points in DUNE was a warning– beware of charismatic heroes. When entrusted with great power, they can do great damage to a civilization. Even a brief sweep of history can illustrate this point.
'LOSE #1' by Michael Deforge
Michael Deforge just got his very first comic book back from the printers! It’s called LOSE #1 and it’s published by Koyama Press. Contact Michael for ordering information! Here’s a three page sample that will punch your god in the face and leave you asking begging for more.
Arthur Magazine 