As the Comics Reporter..er..reports, Matt Groening has a new comic out, Will and Abe’s Guide to the Universe. * “Charles Addams by way of The Far Side” sounds good to me: Rob Sato’s Burying Sandwiches. * Silver Bullet Comicbooks talk to Renée French: “Since I’ve always loved to look at drawings under a magnifier, I thought it would be cool and liberating, to do TEEEENY drawings and blow them up for the web. That forced me to draw with less detail too and not get too obsessive. So the originals are around a centimeter square. I don’t think I would have ever come up with that idea for a book in print. In the small, perfect bound format it makes sense though.” * The Toronto Sun talk to Cancer Vixen Marisa Acocella Marchetto: “Well, it looks like the book’s going the movie route. Cate Blanchett’s being chosen to play me. Imagine that!” * R. Kikuo Johnson of Night Fisher fame is named one of the twentieth brightest design stars by Print magazine {via Journalista} * Are superhero comics in decline? Maybe, Evan Henerson looks at the serious side to comics: “While people 25 and older aren’t the only ones reading and collecting comic books, it’s the Gen X-ers who possess both the nostalgia for the heroes and villains of their youth, and the disposable income to feed the still-existing mania.” * Paul Gravett offers up his November 2006 interview with Alan Moore to coincide with the release of the DVD The Mindscape of Alan Moore: “One of the reasons why I don’t leave Northampton is that the people here don’t treat me like a celebrity, because they’re used to me. I’ve been here for years, I’m just that bloke with long hair.” See also, Alan Moore recommends, Alan Moore vs Brian Eno and Arcade: too avant garde for the Mafia? on Read Yourself RAW. * Men don’t kill women, manga does. * Richard Pulfer on the top 10 accidental comic book discoveries. * An interview with King-Cat John Porcellino: “I started doing King-Cat in ‘89, when I was 20. That was 18 years ago, and I am a very different person. I was really afraid that the early work would seem too long ago, and, in some ways, it was hard to reconcile who I was then with who I am now. I was surprised looking back at how spontaneous the work was. It was like a diary for me. I would go out and live my life and come home in the evening and make a comic. I never went back and tried to tinker with it. In my current work, there is more reflection between the event and the telling of it. I edit myself a lot more about what I want to say and how I want to say it. It is more like a memoir. * Josh Neufeld illustrates Nick Flynn’s Father Outside poem. * Tom Gauld joins Chris Ware, Frank Miller, Anders Nilsen and Seth in designing a comic-style cover for the Penguin Classics range. He takes on Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. * To celebrate 10 years, Top Shelf Comix are having a massive sale. * Not comics: A time lapse video of a Tim Biskup mural.
[Image: Number 9 in the Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels, and found on The Morning News]
First posted: Friday, April 13th, 2007.
