- After reading her short comic, “The Squirrel Mother,” I am a new fan of Megan Kelso. Check out this interview, where she talks about wanting to do something with pictures and words, but not finding the form of comics until her 20s.
- The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project blog has cool posts on everything from drawing animals to creating storyboards for TV.
- I just got Craig Yoe’s book in the mail yesterday. Wacky stuff exploring the link between fine art and comics.
- Whitney Matheson loves Y: The Last Man, and points to an excerpt. I’ve been reading it on and off in the break room.
- You will be able to watch some of Bonnaroo via webcast.
- Search the plays of Shakespeare with Google.
- Graphic novels in libraries? Of course. But the 741.45 dewey decimal has got to go. They deserve their own section.
- Eduardo Galeano has a new book out. I can’t recommend SOCCER IN SUN AND SHADOW enough.
GOOD TIMES IN WOOSTER, OHIO
Josh Krajcik, Mitch Pinkston, Gran Bel Fisher, and Corey Gillen
Last weekend we went down to Wooster to see my best friend and best man, Corey Gillen, play drums with Josh Krajcik Band and Gran Bel Fisher at a little coffee house named Seattle’s. The place was absolutely packed, with an unbelievably good audience. Krajcik Band is filling as Gran Bel’s backing band on his current tour, but in Krajcik’s hometown, Fisher was opening for Krajcik.
“Krajcik Band always brings a packed house,” said Wilson, the owner of Seattle’s. “These people come in here to hear original music. You get a cover band in here, they’ll boo them off the stage.”
Watch the rockage. Nothing against Josh or Gran Bel, but you could put Howdy Doody in front of that rhythym section and you’d melt some faces off.
They’re playing the Cambridge room at the Cleveland House of Blues tonight and tomorrow night. Then it’s off to a sold-out Bonnaroo on Saturday, where you can see them at the Kat Nap Cafe in between Elvis Costello and Beck.
You can check both Krajcik and Bel Fisher out on Myspace, but nothing compares to seeing these cats onstage.
And if you ever get a chance to hit up Wooster, just hang out on Liberty Street: you can try the catfish dinner at CW Burgerstein’s, get ice cream at the Dari-Land, and browse the awesome selection at the Books In Stock bookstore. If you happen upon Seattle’s, ask them for a shot of Le-Bomb James: a Krajcik Band original concoction of Crown Royal, Sprite, grenadine, and sweet and sour mix. It won’t disappoint.
SCRAPS…
…from a gag comic I’m working on I just finished. My soundtrack: Little Steven’s Underground Garage.
- You can see a ton of that comics-only issue of Vice Magazine online. These reviews are hilarious! Anybody know where you can find this in Cleveland?
- A great post from Fantagraphics about all the comics-related videos you can find on YouTube.
- Chip Kidd guest blogs at Powells. It’s great to hear the king of book design bitch about idiotic marketing people testing book designs.
- Post on a Marjane Satrapi reading in Seattle. We’re going to do PERSEPOLIS as the first book in my new 20-30 something reading group at the library. (More about that later, but if you’re interested, please contact me!)
- Interviews: George Saunders and Kevin Huizenga.
Happy Weekend, all!
NEW SHIP
Did you know MOBY-DICK was inspired by a real whaling accident? And that Sammy Harkham’s POOR SAILOR was inspired by the Maupassant story, “At Sea”?
Some dewey decimals I am haunting:
SEAFARING LIFE 910.4, 910.45
SHIPS 387.2 623.82 387.209 910.45
SHIPWRECKS 910.45 910.4 904.7
I worked so much today that my eyes burned and my hand cramped up. The adventure continues…
I THANK THE LO-O-ORD EACH DAY FOR THE APOCALYPSE**
For being 6-6-06, yesterday was an unbelievably good day.
Just one of the happenings: I keep a notebook and pencil on my dashboard, and once in a while I get lucky at a red light, and the inspiration strikes.
<---On the way to work yesterday, a clunker van turned left in front of me, and this guy gave me a dirty look.
I scribbled his caricature as quick as I could. Then I thought he'd make for a good character in TERRIBLE CALAMITY. Engineer first mate, maybe?
Thanks apocalypse, I owe you one.
** You FULL THROTTLE fans will know what I’m talking about. [MP3]
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