Dark Horse Presents Returns to MySpace
CBR reports that Dark Horse’s webcomics series “MySpace Dark Horse Presents” returned to MySpace.
I Hate Mondays
Isn’t "I Hate Mondays" the name of every Garfield collection? Journalista! linked to a review of the Garfield Minus Garfield book that Jim Davis put out. Davis coopted the derivative work created by Dan Walsh (he did include Walsh in the book effort – he penned the introduction). I thought the idea of GMG was clever but I don’t think I could read a whol book’s worth of them myself.
Julia Keller combines an apologia for covering graphic novels in her beat as literary critic for the Chicago Tribune with praise for the recent comic adaptation of Farenheit 451. (h/t to Hero Complex)
New news on Sony’s E-reader — Sony plans on supporting an open platform for content on the machine (which is a big contrast from Amazon’s approach with the Kindle). (h/t Journalista!)
Looking forward to ACT-I-VATE Primer
Another interview with Dean Haspiel promoting the upcoming print collection, The Act-i-Vate Primer. Dean has a Billy Dogma story in the anthology of work from Act-i-Vate creators. It also has comics from Joe Infurnari, Roger Langridge, Nick Bertozzi, Molly Crabapple, and Mike Cavallaro among others. I’m looking forward to reading it.
Teaching Baby Paranoia Celebrates its 500th Strip
The webcomic Teaching Baby Paranoia —by cartoonist Bryant Paul Johnson—celebrated the publication of its 500th strip on Friday August 14th, 2009.
The long-running strip, which debuted in January of 2000, is a mélange of historical fiction and pseudo-academic nonsense, drawn in a classically cartoony style, and annotated with footnotes of dubious accuracy.
The 500th strip (link below), titled "The Henderson Gospel" is both an artistic and structural departure from the norm.
The Daily Update with your host Xaviar Xerexes
INTERVIEWS
Dean Haspiel talks to CBR about the new ACT-I-VATE Primer, a book featuring comics from creators on the roster of the ACT-I-VATE webcomics portal.
Tim O'Shea has an interview with Carol Lay who has a new book out called The Big Skinny which is a combination diet book and memoir in comics.
UPDATE: CBR has a really good interview with Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics (and the dude who runs Project Wonderful advertising).
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Richard Thompson of Cul de sac points to a recent Tom the Dancing Bug comic on the news of that comic's climbing to the top of the Rankopedia rankings for comics strips.
The Amulet Book Two, The Stonekeeper’s Curse
Kazu Kibuishi once again takes us back into the world of Amulet in Book Two: The Stonekeeper's Curse which is due out from Scholastic in September 2009. The Stonekeeper's Curse is a compelling story with tons of actions and opens up in much wider ways the world of the first Amulet book. It's a thrilling tale, a fantastic piece of comics from Kibuishi and a worthy successor to the first book.
Great Kids Comic: Knights of the Lunch Table
The Dragon Players, the second book in Frank Cammuso's Knights of the Lunch Table series is scheduled for release this September. I got a chance to review a preview copy this month and it's a great sequel to the first book, The Dodgeball Chronicles. The version I got to read had a great color cover and a few pages in color (but the rest in black and white). The released version will be all in color and based on the color I saw, it will certainly be another bang-up job from Scholastic's GRAPHIX imprint.
Tuesday
Just another day in the home office in itstoodamnhotville…
MILESTONES
It will be a sad day in Mudville when Scary Go Round steps up to the plate for the last time. Even John Allison is getting verklempt.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Awhile ago Warren Ellis put out a call to creators to post about their webcomics at his Whitechapel forum. A long list ensued – much good stuff there, some of it new to me! From there I found Border Crossings a suitably strange story but one with promise. I can’t tell if the two stories so far are meant to be interlocking or not but either way it has a creepy, odd tone — both the art and the writing. Definitely interesting so far.
Also reading Mister Crimson which has art very like Howard Chaykin’s The Shadow comic book. Actually the plot is a bit like putting The Shadow into the future.
CRAFT
Cartoonist Bob Flynn talks about the tools he uses making comics.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Reuben Bolling incites his fans to vote Tom the Dancing Bug to the top of the Rankopedia’s list for best comic ever. As far as lists go this is one of the most naked popularity contests I’ve seen in awhile. I doubt Bolling is doing this out of anything other than a sense of fun and irony.
Kind of an interesting site – 30 Day Artist – features an artist each month making 40 pieces of art on the site.
Is Chris Hastings’ dog (name: Commissioner Gordon) the cutest dog in the world?
Side B: Comics About Music
Derf Serialized TRASHED on the web
I bought TRASHED from Derf as SPX several years ago. A totally underrated comic about working as a trashman one summer; I thought Derf (better known for his weekly THE CITY strip) really showed his range in this autobiographical tale. Now he’s serializing it on his website so go check it out.
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