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------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/bGIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> CBEM 496 concludes . . . +++++ FBI INFORMANT VOL. V #7 NOVEMBER 2, 2004 SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF NEWSLETTTER FOR DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE LATEST RELEASES FROM FANTAGRAPHICS (THERE'S A LOT OF 'EM)... What better day to send out a new Fantagraphics newsletter than the day after the presidential election, when so many of you are opening your inbox and wondering why that nice fellow Eli from moveon.org doesn't write any more? Have no fear, however: We're here for you. Well, unless Bush wins, in which case we might be in Canada for you. Either way, our commitment to comicdom remains unwavering, and in all these days of promise and days of reckoning, we can be confident that yes, sequential art is on the march. The war goes on, and we are winning. We've got the philistines on the run. We're keeping them on the run. One by one the fanboys are learning the meaning of true art. Whatever action is required, whenever action is necessary, we will defend the right to bear pens and brushes in the name of literature. And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has come to the right publisher. You are a resolute people, comics lovers, who have risen to every test of our time. Adversity has revealed the character of our medium, to the world, and to ourselves. Thank you. DAN CLOWES CHEWS ON APPLE, TACKLES BACKYARD RESISTANCE Dan Clowes' unorthodox trajectory to stardom (at least insofar as cartooning is an unorthodox route to fame under any circumstances) takes a surprising twist in a new ad spot for Apple computers. Errol Morris, best known for the excellent documentary Fog of War, directs the series of ads, which feature Clowes and fellow celebs Tony Hawk, Kelly Slater and DJ Qbert chatting about how they have "switched" to Apples for professional reasons. Clowes describes his Apple as a "perfect robot pal". Aw! To see Dan Clowes expound on how he uses his computer, go to http://www.errolmorris.com/commercials/apple_clowes.html Meanwhile, it was also recently announced that Clowes will write the film Backyard Resistance for producer Scott Rudin and Paramount Pictures. The film will center on a trio of youngsters who made a shot-by-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark called Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. Earlier this year, Rudin secured the life rights to the Mississippi trio behind the film - - Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb -- after Vanity Fair published an article about them. The three began the project while on summer vacation in 1982, finishing it seven years later, shooting on a VHS camcorder and using backwoods Mississippi locales. JASON'S PACIFIC NORTHWEST TOUR Mono-monikered cartoonist JASON, whose sympathetic take on the Frankenstein-monster myth You Can't Get There from Herehas recently been released in the U.S., will be signing books at Portland, Oregon's CounterMedia Books, located at 927 SW Oak Street, this Thursday, Nov. 4. (For more details, call 503-226- 8141.) The ex-pat will then appear at Olympia, Washington's Danger Room Comics, at 201 W. 4th Ave, on Saturday, Nov. 20, at 1:00 p.m. There will be an interview and Q&A session, and maybe a skit, between 1:00-2:00 p.m., which will segue into a signing from 2:30 - 4:00 p. m. For additional info, go to http://www.dangerroomcomics.com/ THE PIRATE THAT ROARED: BOB LEVIN SIGNING Counterculture-comics maven BOB LEVIN, author of Pirates and the Mouse and contributor to The Comics Journal, will fly to Wayne, Pennsylvania to talk about his book and sign copies Wednesday, November 3, from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. The event, which will be open to the public free of charge, is at the Radnor Memorial Library, located at 114 West Wayne Ave. For further updates, visit www.radnorlibrary.org BILL LIEBOWITZ, 1941-2004 --------------------------------------- Golden Apple Comics, one of the world's most renowned comic book stores, has lost its owner and founder and longtime friend of the comics industry. Bill Liebowitz passed away suddenly early on October 27. Bill Liebowitz was one of the earliest supporters of Fantagraphics, and Golden Apple hosted the very first LOVE & ROCKETS signing way back in 1982, and continued to host the Hernandez brothers and many other Fantagraphics authors over the last twenty-plus years. The staff of Fantagraphics Books extends its sympathies to Sharon Lebowitz and the entire Liebowitz family and Golden Apple community. If you would like to pay your respects directly to Bill's wife and sons, please visit the message board set up at the store's web site: www.goldenapplecomics.com SEATTLE WEEKLY COVERS FANTAGRAPHICS The Seattle Weeklyrecently ran a ridiculously long yet extremely gratifying cover feature on Fantagraphics in its September 15-21 issue, complete with sexy, David LaChappelle-esque photographs of several staff members. Written by Michaelangelo Matos with photographs by Kevin P. Casey, "Saved By the Beagle" never made a man in a "Doofus" t-shirt look sexier, we assure you. The feature focused on the twin histories of Fantagraphics and alternative comics, eventually spinning a story of the little-publisher-that-could by exposing how the company shot from near-bankruptcy to relative prosperity with the help of its fans the comics community, benefit concerts and Peanuts. It also includes a Fantagraphics "Top Ten" list by one of our favorite critics, Douglas Wolk. The piece even ends on a guardedly inspirational note from noted cynic Kim Thompson. For the full article, see http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0437/040915_arts_fantagraph ics.php BOSTON REVIEW RUNS POGO APPRECIATION In its October/November 2004 issue, The Boston Reviewfeatured an appreciation written by John Crowley, entitled "The Happy Place," of WALT KELLY's Pogovolumes 1-11. Crowley makes salient points on the evolution, language, artistic expressiveness and political commentary of the strip, mediates on how the strip's characters react to the mutability of their identities, and finishes by applying concepts of Eden originated by W. H. Auden to Pogo. He writes, "The dark menace that, as I have noted, sometimes intrudes amid them, [.] proceeds into their Eden from the outside (adult) world, which they can consider and imitate but not in the end be truly harmed by. And isn't that what we would wish for children too: that their space be both safe and free? Yet we know the menace to be there." This was a remarkably thorough overview - too bad most of the Pogovolumes are out of stock. Yes, we should do something about that. Please check out the full text of the article here: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR29.5/crowley.html JAIME HERNANDEZ ON LOCAS OPUS Boingboing.com's Mark Frauenfelder interviews the self- deprecating comics supahstah JAIME HERNANDEZ here: http://www.graphicnovelreview.com/current.php The interview discloses Jaime's narrative techniques and the origin of "Hopey." Don't miss it! NPR ON LOCAS AND JIMBO IN PURGATORY On October 2, 2004, Dan Nadel reviewed JAIME HERNANDEZ' accomplished collection Locasand GARY PANTER's exquisite Jimbo in Purgatoryon the NPR (National Public Radio) "Weekend America" program. You can get nifty peeks into the books and find some links here: http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/index_20041002.htm l PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON PEANUTS & KRIGSTEIN Publishers Weeklysingles out Charles Schulz' The Complete Peanuts, 1953-54in its September 20 issue. The review opens with, "This second thick volume in The Complete Peanutsmakes for a delicious wallow in a nostalgic world that has a lot more bits than readers may recall." Describing the strips presented there as "crackling", the review adds, "As always, the illustrations are a marvel of simplicity and the insights are haunting." In the same issue, it also reviews B. Krigstein's Comics, edited by Fantagraphics art director Greg Sadowski. The review describes Krigstein, best known in the comics' field for his work with EC, as a "great innovator" and a "restless trendsetter". The review asserts, "Krigstein elevates ["In the Bag'] to art with his moody storytelling and withering ability to capture human weakness with a few lines." COOL AND COLLECTED: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ON LOCAS Entertainment Weeklygives Locas, a collection of the Maggie & Hopey stories from Love and Rockets, an "A" in a review written by Jeff Jensen in its October 22 issue. Jensen claims that the book not only tracks the history of "plucky, punky" Maggie but "Hernandez's own artistic evolution, from his initial (and awkward) blending of genres to the refinement of his expressive and elegant cartooning." For more on Locas, go to http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/book/0,6115,724206_5_0_,00.ht ml REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACIES: THE BUSH JUNTA In what can only be attributed to a vast Republican conspiracy, we inexplicably overlooked one of our most exciting and timely new titles of the year in our previous newsletter: The Bush Junta. A must-read for anyone who even for a fleeting moment considered George Bush worthy of re-election, this well- researched and impassioned collection by 25 international cartoonists lays bare the truth about various aspects of the Bush administration. With any luck, Bush will already have his walking papers by the time you read this, but either way, this book is an illuminating read for anyone with an interest in global politics. TED RALL, STEVE BRODNER, SETH TOBOCMAN, LLOYD DANGLE, PETER KUPER, CAROL SWAIN, SPAIN RODRIGUEZ, TED JOUFLAS, ETHAN PERSOFF, the great HACK SMITH and others have created a primer on corruption, with chapters on the Gulf Wars I and II, the 2000 Presidential coup, 9/11, the Guantanamo camp and more, plus profiles of such sinister figures as Donald Rumsfeld, Condeleezza Rice and John Ashcroft. JACQUES DERRIDA TALKED TO HER On October 8, 2004, one of the most influential theorists of the 20th and 21st century, Jacques Derrida, passed away - although his ideas live on. For a unique look at the famed intellectual, pick up his interview with KRISTINE MCKENNA, collected in Talk to Her. McKenna, who is as much of an iconoclast as those she interviewed, is renowned for drawing the most out of her subject, and her conversation with Derrida is no exception. PETER BAGGE NEWS In Peter Bagge's most recent REASON feature, he dares to stick his neck WAY out and take on that most sacred of sacred cows, Republicans! (Though in the interest of fairness, he does point out that they're very generous when it comes to offering free pastries.) Speaking of free, those cheapskates amongst you (i.e.: all of you) can read the strip online by going here: http://www.reason.com/0411/bagge.shtml In other Bagge news, the man has illustrated a story in Tom Strong#12, from DC Comics and Alan Moore, in which the readers get to see the more... dissolute side of Mr. Strong and co. He has also written and drawn a three page strip for an upcoming collection of Matrixcomics, starring Angry Youth's Johnny Ryan (yes, you read that right). If the Matrix was weird enough, creators of the Sims computer games have asked a bunch of cartoonists -- Bagge amongst them -- to create 2-3 page comics to help introduce their latest game, Urbz: Sims in the City. The strip eventually can be found (along with the others) by going here: http://urbzsims.ea.com/comix/gasolinerow/bagge_bio.php (Bagge's strip isn't up yet -- it will be in a few weeks -- but you can read the other contributors' strips in the meantime by clicking the links to the left). Finally, Canada's answer to ESQUIRE (as if Esquire neededan answer, let alone for a question posed to Canada) has been running a series of 2 pages strips by various cartoon notables -- including Bagge, who appears in the current "sports" themed issue, which is on the newsstands now (in Canada, anyway). Meanwhile, look for Hate Annual#5 next month, followed by Buddy Does Seattle, collecting Hate#s 1-15 in one handsome and inexpensive masterpiece of a collection! NEW BOOKS: ------------------- THE BUSH JUNTA By various; edited by Gary Groth & Mack White 200-page black-and-white graphic album * $18.95 ISBN 1-56097-612-8 An international assemblage of world-class cartoonists take on the Bush administration in this historical account of high crimes and misdemeanors. This fact-based, impeccably researched work of comics journalism chronicles the Bush administration in the context of the Bush family dynasty that spawned it. Contributors to this historic comics documentary include: Carol Swain's look at Election 2000; Mack White's documentation of the events of September 11, 2001; Marcel Ruyters on the Bush-Nazi Connection; Carol Lay explores Karl Rove's role; Mark Landman looks at Dick Cheney; Ethan Persoff reads PATRIOT Acts I and II; and unveiling numerous other truths about the leader of the free world are a host of other cartoonists including: Kim Deitch, Jeremy Eaton, Hack Smith, Bill Griffith, Aleksandar Zograf, Larry Rodman, Spain Rodriguez and others.Introduction by documentary filmmaker and national radio broadcaster Alex Jones. Cover by acclaimed political cartoonist Steve Brodner. FRED THE CLOWN By Roger Langridge 192-page black-and-white graphic novel * $16.95 ISBN 1-56097-610-1 The signature creation of New Zealand cartoonist Roger Langridge, Fred the Clown is the thinking man's idiot. Fred has an eye for the ladies, as well as several other organs, but the only part of themselves they're willing to share is a carefully placed kneecap. Fred the Clown's misadventures are a curious balance of bleakness and joyful absurdism; the universe may dump on Fred from a great height, but he never gives up. Underlying it all is Langridge's own meticulous brush style. According to another New Zealand cartoonist, Hicksville creator Dylan Horrocks, "If Samuel Beckett had teamed up with the Goons and learned to draw like Tex Avery, the result would have been something very like the comics of Roger Langridge." BLAB! Vol. 15 By various; edited by Monte Beauchamp 120-page graphic album in color and black-and-white * $19.95 ISBN 1-56097-613-6 Pop Art virtuoso Lou Brooks delivers the front and back covers to our latest annual serving of Blab!, while Juxtapoz magazine favorite Christian Northeast does the insides covers. Also: Sue Coe takes a look at the so-called Bird-Flu, Matti Hagelberg's tells us of an undead President of Finland; Jeffrey Steele writes about the Black Dahlia; Peter Kuper delivers a four-page, full- color, Little Nemo-inspired fantasy; plus, more from Blab! regular Gary "Teacher's Pet" Baseman, as well as Beauchamp's long-awaited piece on Kilroy (of "was here" fame), originally slated for Vol. 14. THE COMICS JOURNAL LIBRARY VOL. 4: DRAWING THE LINE 120-page graphic album in B&W and color * $18.95 ISBN 1-56097-597-0 The fourth volume in TCJ Library's ongoing series of lavish coffee-table-book collections of interviews drawn from the Utne Award-winning magazine's archives, this volume gathers together the epic, exhaustive interviews with four of the sharpest social commentators of our times: Ralph Steadman, Jules Feiffer, Edward Sorel, and David Levine. Each definitive conversation will boast the generous amounts of illustration that TCJ Library readers have come to expect from each volume, as well as a full-color gallery of rarely seen work. LOCAS: A LOVE & ROCKETS BOOK by Jaime Hernandez 704-page B&W hardcover graphic novel * $49.95 ISBN 1-56097-611-X BACK IN STOCK! One of the most humane, graceful and imaginatively inexhaustible artists in American popular culture, Jaime Hernandez has created in Locas one of the great American novels of the last 25 years, graphic or otherwise. Spanning a quarter-century, Locas tells the story of Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in a community rife with class, race and gender issues. Maggie's story begins in the early-1980s Southern California rock scene, when it was shifting from the excesses of glitter rock to the gritty basics of punk and new wave. She quickly befriends Hopey Glass, a feisty anti-authoritarian punkette who quickly becomes Maggie's on-again, off-again lover and a constant presence in her life throughout the book. Maggie evolves from an angry young punk into a mature woman, encountering cruelties large and small and resigning herself to dashed hopes, shattered illusions, and even death with ironic acceptance over her 20 year story arc. NEW COMICS & MAGAZINES: WORN TUFF ELBOW By Marc Bell 40-page black-and-white comic * $4.95 From Marc Bell (the creator of the excellent graphic novel Shrimpy and Paul from Highwater Books) comes the debut issue of Worn Tuff Elbow. This issue includes the first installment of "Wilder Hobson's Theatre Absurd-o", introducing and reintroducing such characters as Monsieur Moustache, Miss Polly, Mr. Socks, Bingo Bango Man and Wilder Hobson (our protagonist) himself. Other self contained shorter works round out the issue including a short tale of a "sensitive sausage". Chegg-er-oot, you won't regret it. A true gem of cartoon absurdism, and as delicious as a big slab of salty Canadian bacon! BLOOD ORANGE #3 By various artists; edited by Chris Polkki 48-page black and white comic * $5.95 The third issue of this always-surprising quarterly anthology series features the European cartoonists Ulf K., Alex Baladi, Katja Tukiainen, Helge Reumann, Olaf Ladousse, Pakito Bolino and Caroline Sury, alongside more familiar names such as Anders (Kramers Ergot) Nilsen and Steven (Kid Firechief) Weissman and all wrapped in an eye-popping cover designed by the acclaimed French illustrator, Olivier Douzou. THE COMICS JOURNAL #263 192-page magazine about comics * $9.95 Now revamped with more pages, better paper stock and more color pages, The Comics Journal remains the finest source of comics- related news, reviews and commentary in the market today. This issue features an in-depth, career-spanning interview with writer and cartoonist Ed Brubaker, covering his life in comics from his early days as an indy cartoonist to his work for DC Comics on such titles as Batman and Sleeper. Sean Phillips (the artist behind Sleeper) provides this issue's cover. Also in TCJ #263: In a series of essays, our critics take a closer look at Dave Sim and Gerhard's Cerebus in a special roundtable section. Want still more? How about a fantastic color comics section by George Carlson?!? LUBA #9 By Gilbert Hernandez 24-page black-and-white comic * $3.50 Penultimate issue! The hammer-wielding Luba and her friends take time out once again for another intriguing issue of familial adventure. It's the end of an era! Is Luba and Ofelia's relationship over?! Sergio throws caution to the wind and wants Guadalupe to run away with him! Fritz chooses between Pipo and Sergio! Pipo chooses between Fritz and Igor! And Fortunato triumphs over all! And I mean all! BACK IN PRINT! USAGI YOJIMBO BOOK 1: "The Ronin" softcover By Stan Sakai 144-page graphic novel * $15.95 Here it is, the eighth printing of the book that started it all! COMPLETE CRUMB COMICS VOL. 5 By R. Crumb 144-page graphic album * $18.95 Back in print after being sold out for two years! Featuring the years 1968 and 1969! COMPLETE CRUMB COMICS VOL. 6 By R. Crumb 144-page graphic album * $18.95 This one's been out of stock for three years! Featuring work from 1969 and 1970, including the notorious "Joe Blow." KRAZY & IGNATZ 1927-1928: "LOVE LETTERS IN ANCIENT BRICK" By George Herriman 120-page graphic album * $14.95 Our second volume of the award-winning Krazy Katreprint series is back in print! HEY, WAIT... By Jason 68-page graphic novel * $12.95 Jason's evocative first book is back with a new cover! LOVE & ROCKETS VOL. II #3 By Los Bros Hernandez 32-pages comic book * $3.95 Viva Los Bros. Hernandez! With this reprint, all back issues of L&R VOL. 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