Category Archives for COMICS

'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik

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Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik. Pre-order now from Garrett County Press.

A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.

'POP GUN WAR 2: Chain Letter' by Farel Dalrymple

Whoa sorry about the delay, I originally planned on putting up the last 2 parts of Farel’s POP GUN WAR sequel to coincide with the limited edition comics that he printed up.  But the books sold out almost immediately and I missed my window.  Well you’ve all waited long enough.  Here’s pages 16-19 of Farel Dalrymple’s POP GUN WAR 2.  Come back next Tuesday for the big finale (of the first half anyway).  Previously: 1, 2, 3

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'CHAMELEON CITY' by Léo Quiévreux

Léo Quiévreux’s Chameleon City recalls the inky pleasures of early Kaz, Charles Burns, or Max Andersson.  Maybe this is that amalgam, vaguely European city I find myself dreaming in from time to time?  Always changing, but undeniably familiar…  Recently published in a Latvian magazine, Léo is happy to share this story with readers from other countries.  His new book, La Prothèse HRZ, is available from Le Dernier Cri.

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'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik

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Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik.  Pre-order now from Garrett County Press.

A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.

'TOTEM PILL' by Marc Ngui

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Really digging this animation sent over by Marc Ngui (music is “The Grand Elixir” by Ocote Soul Sounds).  Read more about the ideas and inspiration at Marc’s site:

Totem Pill is inspired by Robert Anton Wilson’s description of Timothy Leary’s Eight Circuit Model of Human Consciousness.

The model addresses the question of how and why the mind evolved into an organ of consciousness. Beginning with a single celled organism, each system of consciousness is created as an emergent phenomenon of the previous system in an ever more complex networking process, leading towards a godlike state existing in all time-space with the possibility of engaging with other time spaces. The model is a creation myth, a cosmic blueprint, and fertile territory for the imagination.

'ENSIGN SMURF' pt. 1 by Stanley Lieber

Stanley Lieber is a comics factory, a house of ideas, a bullpen bullet, a Herzog documentary.  His 21st century comic, Massive Fictions, peers unflinchingly into Prince’s vaults and returns with maps of the sun.  You can download MF at his site.  He’s compiling a comics anthology called FAKE which may contain the secrets of the internet’s true birthday.  FAKE also includes work by fellow artist, Pete Toms, who did the colors for Ensign Smurf pt. 1, which you are about to read.  Here’s part 2!

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'IMPORTANT COMICS' by Dina Kelberman

Dina Kelberman just released a book of new comics and illustrations!  It’s called Important Comics and it will make you think and laugh.  What else is Dina up to?  I’ll let her tell it:

I am an illustrator comics and drawings and website. I enjoy blue, red, yellow and green when used correctly.  I got to:  go to Purchase College; found Wham City; show work in lots of places and publications; tour the east coast with my friends.  Please email me at dina@whamcity.com immediately.

New projects I gots on the burner include: going to SPX in Sept., a book of my Citypaper comics, illustration for the next Nuclear Power Pants album, comics in Friends With Benefits (ltd. edition handmade art book by Impose Magazine) and Fakeheads Anthology, video on Baltimore vs. The World DVD by Current Gallery, & ISBN numbers!

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New images by Céline Guichard

Céline Guichard just sent over some new images to share.  She lives and works in Angoulême, France where she has participated in various exhibitions and artist residencies.  Her new monograph, De L’ Amour was recently published in a limited edtion by Strane Dizioni, and she is currently working on a new graphic novel.

I asked about her process and influences and this was her reply (translated from French):

My pictures always born of a first stage of simple design, mostly in pen and ink, on very white paper.  Then I reworked my drawings in photoshop, collage, color, filters …
I rarely draw from nature. I have in my head a bank of images and forms that I transcribed so distorted and it is precisely this transcription, these deformations, which interest me. I like the asymmetry and imbalance, the monstrous, grotesque …

When you asked me about my tastes, I mention Toshio Saeki, the canvas “Mr and Mrs Andrews’ by Thomas Gainsboroug, the “Caprichos” by Goya and Lucien Freud, which have in common have nothing to do with my world vision. But my real references are made in literature, film and personal. I draw on my memories of childhood in the countryside, in my obsession for the human and animal biology, the abnormality, the world of dream, transgression …

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