Seattle Public Library’s commitment to including comics in their themed displays is always charming, but this is a bit of a mixed message. Maybe Pet Awareness month could be honoured with some Where’s Michael manga, or Mutts strip collections? Or… A shirtless dude absolutely DRIPPING with blood and covered in dangling viscera? Good old DC’s […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
old fresh fellows
A fun thing about moving to Seattle after reading comics for several decades is the amount of comics still just existing ambiently around the city, even after several layers of tech booms and gentrification. Spotted today: mid-80s transplant Pete Bagge’s poster for some upcoming dates by early-80s band Young Fresh Fellows. The bobby-soxer and propeller […]
CATS IN COMICS: fluff level extreme
CATS IN COMICS: 14th April 2019 post by “Seattle Walk Report” on Instagram If the anonymous cartoonist behind this account published anywhere else, I would probably delete the app.
quite original
Billy Hynes on twitter went to a Frank Quitely exhibition held in 2017 at Kelvingrove in Glasgow (good museum, containing at least one fake animal), and apparently was flicking through old pics on his phone. Click through for more of his snaps of Quitely originals and process drawings, and wish this was a touring show. […]
Chick Trumps
Somebody please reinstall payphones across Seattle so I can find some of these left inside: A pretty dead-on faux Chick tract about Donald Trump’s oafish venality is being distributed nationally by a multi-denominational group of Christians from Seattle neighbourhood Columbia City. There’s one about the Russia witch hunt, too. The city’s conservative broadsheet approves, though […]
comics outlets eliminated
The birth of webcomics gave a freedom to creators who wanted to work in shortform, but were too raw or idiosyncratic to even knock on the door of the walled garden of newspaper syndication. Able to build audiences, sustain themselves through sales of merch and printed collections, and occasionally self-syndicate to print outlets, the pioneers […]
comics by elimination
Someone on an old-school role-playing game tumblr has compiled a bunch of computer-screen illustrations from a 48-page RPG supplement written by John M. Ford in 1985 into a pretty succinct, accurately predictive comic. (Amongst many other things, Ford also wrote two Star Trek novels in the ’80s. One, from 1984, was a serious worldbuilder about […]
CATS IN COMICS: found on site
CATS IN COMICS: Untitled 1 (“is someone chasing Coconut?”) and Untitled 2 (“ut-oh”) by Ariya. These strips were part of a small exhibition in the window of the Harper Lumber Co. in Roslyn WA, during March 2019. The town played Cicely, Alaska, in the 1990s television show Northern Exposure. Nothing is known about the artist […]
Calvin County
I tapped out on Berke Breathed back in the ’90s when Bloom County had become the weekly strip Outland, and had only seen a handful of reposted examples since he brought it back as a Facebook-exclusive strip with really ugly computer lettering. So I’d totally missed, until this week, that Bill Watterson has been doing […]
cartoonist healthcare is citizen healthcare
Tom Spurgeon notes that S. Clay Wilson’s partner & caregiver Lorraine Chamberlain “could use some help negotiating some patients rights issue” at a hospital that he’s currently admitted to, entering the ICU a week ago. The longtime underground cartoonist, Checkered Demon and Captain Pissgums creator and Zap! comics squad member suffered a brain injury in […]