The Day is Here!!
All Hail! The Holy of Holies, the Day of Days, is Here at Last! The Day when Americans choose whom they wish to see their cartoonists and late night comedians make fun of for the next four years! My spittle spat, I’ve no poison left, just this final drip of non-partisan, de-venomized glad-it’s-almost-over, pap. (Don’t [...]
Manks Likin’ # 401
Let’s start today with Will Eisner’s then-new political cartoon Spirit one-pagers from Denis Kitchen’s 1973 first issue of the so-called Underground Spirit. http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-and-white-wednesday-will-eisners.html Speaking of Eisner, here’s the Master’s former sidekick, assistant, Spirit writer and layout artist and pioneering comics historian, Jules Feiffer and he’s Sick, Sick, Sick. http://hairygreeneyeball3.blogspot.com/2011/04/sick-sick-sick.html George Roussos is an artist generally [...]
mkain ‘liNsk # 305
The Groovy Agent offers up the Blunder Agents! Wally Wood’s T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents get a Mad-style lampooning from Gary Friedrich and Marie Severin in a mid-sixties issue of Marvel’s Not Brand Echh. http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/11/sunday-funnies-blunder-agents-by.html From a 1980′s issue of Denis Kitchen’s Death Rattle, here’s Steve Stiles with yet another Wally Wood homage, this one a sci-fi war [...]
The Oddly Compelling Interview: Denis Kitchen
Denis Kitchen is special. One of the most influential, respected, and beloved titans of the comics industry, he has the intelligence, ambition, and talent of five men. One career could never suffice to allow full expression of his remarkable abilities. We know him variously as publisher, agent, writer, collector, curator, artist, and founder of the [...]
I’m Signing + Talking @ the San Diego Comic-Con–See Ya!
I know, I know. I haven’t been posting much lately and D.J. David B. has been pulling all the weight with his great music finds. I’ll start up again soon, though. Busy working on LOTS of books that you’re gonna love. Will be signing two new books Comic Arf (Fantagraphics) and Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings [...]
Yoe Got Mail!
Yo, Craig! Good Morning. Last evening newspaper cartoonist Patrick McDonnell spoke in Alameda, California at Books, Inc. McDonnell, the writer and artist of MUTTS spoke on behalf of the East Bay SPCA. A member of the audience asked, “You seem to have really shot to national prominence after your appearance in Arf. Will you be [...]
MoCCA Mug Shots
Gary Groth, publisher of the Arf books with the brand new Arf Forum. (click for a slideshow from the Mocca party)
Birthday Boy Will Eisner Nude!
Birthday Boy Will Eisner (born on this day in 1917) in his birthday suit! In my forthcoming book Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings I will be presenting this Will Eisner nude self-portrait! There will be other “dirty drawings” by Eisner as well. Will Eisner is, of course, the creator of the well-known, ground-breaking, beloved, highly regarded [...]
New York Comic Con
Denis Kitchen, who is rumored to be a member of the Ernie Bushmiller Society. But, when I asked him directly here he flatly denied any involvement. Yeah, right! Alberto Ruiz –I hate this guy because he can draw so damn well. Mega-talent Robert Tonner showing off some of the exquisite figures his company, Tonner Doll [...]
It’s Wacky Wonder Woman Wednesday!
Yo, Craig! I know you’re looking for a subtle way to plug our upcoming Comic Con panel, *Masters of American Comics*. You remember, right? The one on Friday, July 21st, from 5.30 to 7 pm, in room 8. With Yoe’s truly and me: Mike Dooley. And Brian Walker! And Denis Kitchen! And Cynthia Burlingham and [...]
