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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 --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> +++++ Fantagraphics News for December F.B.I. Informant Vol. V #8 December 1, 2004 Scroll to bottom for a list of the latest releases from Fantagraphics Books! CRUMB COVER GRACES FANTA-FILLED NEW YORKER The November 29, 2004 issue of the The New Yorker was officially subtitled "The Cartoon Issue," but might as well have been called "This One's For You, Fantagraphics!" Set off by a rich, holiday- themed cover by R. Crumb, the issue's listings section also ran a cartoon from Gene Deitch's Cat on a Hot Thin Groove in the hidden-gems section of the jazz listings. The issue continued the Fanta-theme by reviewing George Herriman's Krazy and Ignatz, 1933-1934 in the "Briefly Noted" section: "Herriman's panels convey an irrepressible sense of movement and incorporate distinctly surreal touches, such as the thronged mushrooms that 'rise to feast in florid fungushood,' blooming like umbrellas under a cheese-slice moon." The highlight of the issue, however, is an article by Jonathan Franzen (author of the best-selling novel The Corrections), in which he juxtapozes autobiographical childhood incidents with his favorite Peanuts strips. He writes: "I didn't for a minute believe the children in 'Peanuts' were really children - they were so much more emphatic and cartoonishly real than anybody in my own neighborhood - but I nevertheless took their stories to be dispatches from a universe of childhood that was somehow more substantial and convincing than my own." In reaction to Peanuts merchandising that "had to feature somebody's sweet, crumpled smile," he maintains, "You should go out and buy the new Fantagraphics book just to reward the publisher for putting a picture of a scowling Charlie Brown on the cover." Yeah, what he said! For the full-text article, visit http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?041129fa_fact HBO CELEBRATES COMICS AND SUBVERSION! Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Lynda Barry, Charles Burns and Kaz are amongst the cartoonists scheduled to appear at The 11th Annual U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (USCAF), sponsored by HBO, and held February 9 -13 in Aspen, Colorado. HBO will host a panel entitled The Rise of the Graphic Novel. Moderated by McSweeney's editor Dave Eggers, the panel, consisting of the aforementioned Fanta celebrities, Art Spiegelman and several other comics creators, "will look at how the comic book has evolved to one of the hippest, most subversive literary forms." Additionally, Aaron McGruder will emcee the Freedom of Speech Award ceremony, which is to honor Garry Trudeau. According to the press release, "the annual award is in recognition of the challenges artists have faced while using their craft to speak out on social issues." For further information, go to http://www.hbocomedyfestival.com/ WILL SUCCESS SPOIL DAN CLOWES? Scott Thill has written a smart piece on Dan Clowes for the indy news website www.alternet.com. The article "Going Underground" contains an interview with Clowes on his comics (specifically his smash-hit Eightball #23) and his new film project, Art School Confidential. Thrill also insightfully examines Clowes' work and the paradox of being a popular underground artist. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20589/ POPEYE'S PLATNIUM ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT The New York, NY branch of The Museum of Television & Radio is hosting an exhibit November 13, 2004 through January 30, 2005 in honor of the spinach-fueled icon. Well Blow Me Down!: 75 Years of Popeye shows the popular character in all of his multimedia glory The gallery will include "original E. C. Segar comic strips from the '30s and '40s; storyboards, drawings, and cels from Fleischer and Famous Studios; cels and artwork from King Features Syndicate and Hanna-Barbera from the '60s to the '80s; and vintage toys, comic books, and poster art." The New York branch of The Museum of Television & Radio is located at 25 West 52 Street. For hours and additional information, go to http://www.mtr.org/welcome.htm For a bit of history on the Popeye phenomenon, see http://mtr.inet7.com/PressRoom/pressRelease/11092004.htm THE COMICS JOURNAL WINS EAGLE AWARD The Comics Journal, which has seen renewed reader enthusiasm under the stewardship of Managing Editor Dirk Deppey, won an international Eagle Award in the "Favorite Magazine About Comics" category. Named after the British comic, the twenty-eight-year- old Eagle Awards boasted the largest voting participation in its history this year. To view the complete list of winners, hit http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/news/11001818373249.htm GROTH & THOMPSON'S RADIO RIFF Seattle newsradio station KOMO conducted a interview with Fanta founders Gary Groth and Kim Thompson recently. Journalist Brian Calvert quizzed Groth and Thompson on the history of the company and the triumph of The Complete Peanuts. To hear the publisher- meets-publisher story and listen to some snappy sound effects, go to http://www.komotv.com/stories/33824.htm There is also a transcript for the connection-speed challenged. CHRIS WARE & IRA GLASS CREATE NPR DVD Chris Ware fans and listeners of NPR's "This American Life" will not want to miss "Lost Buildings," a collaboration between Ware and "TAL" host Ira Glass, with music by Philip Glass. This stunning NPR premium DVD is well worth the hefty pledge to your local public radio station, and features over 300 individual drawings by Ware and a hardcover book designed by him as well. What's it about? Well, check it out: To sample: http://www.thislife.org/qt/preview_lg.mov For more info: http://thisamericanlife.org/dvd/ HEAR DAVID GREENBERGER LEGIBLY SPEAKING David Greenberger, author of No More Shaves, is no stranger to multimedia. Having created Duplex Planet comics, books, documentaries, live performances and periodicals, he explores fresh territory with his recent CD Legibly Speaking, which features new stories narrated by Greenberger, accompanied by the chamber music ensemble 3 Leg Torso. The CD, in which Greenberger creates 11 characters, aims "to expose the richness of the whole person through humor and intelligence, with genuine tenderness." The CD is for sale at www.duplexplanet.com and is available in stores nationwide. NPR's All Things Considered will also excerpt Legibly Speaking. Check show times and schedules at http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/ BLACK HOLE #12 PREVIEW Charles Burns is interviewed over at The Pulse this week, to promote the upcoming twelfth and final issue of his magnum opus, BLACK HOLE. The feature also includes a sneak preview of the first five pages of the issue! http://www.comicon.com/pulse/ INTERVIEW WITH JASON: Dan Epstein delivered an exclusive interview with Norway's favorite son, Jason, just in time for Thanksgiving: http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22221 LOCO FOR LOCAS: Publisher's Weekly has named Jaime Hernandez's Locas one of the eight "graphic novels of the year" in its Dec. 6 issue, calling the book "masterful." The plug is part of a flurry of attention for the Hernandez opus, which has also included raves in the New York Times, the Guardian UK, NPR and much more. Go, Jaime! NEW BOOKS: WHAT'RE YOU LOOKIN' AT?!? By Johnny Ryan 176 pages $16.95 ISBN 1-56097-621-7 Collecting the first five Fantagraphics issues of Angry Youth Comix, and more! Featuring Johnny Ryan's signature creation, Loady McGee (and straight-man Synus O'Gynus), a misanthropic, acne-scarred hustler who finds himself in scams that would make Wimpy proud, and responds to almost everything with an endless stream of wisecracks, puns, and X-rated double entendres. Loady's ridiculous crackpot schemes serve as perfect comic set-ups, and Ryan's art is crammed with visual gags and existential asides that brings to mind the great Will Elder (MAD magazine). Needless to say, this is not politically-correct stuff, nor is it for children. Ryan's in-your-face humor spares no prisoners, as these stories indicate: "Hipler," a riotous satire of our "extreme makeover" era and celebrity culture; "Ku Klux Kuties," which tests just how far the usual doe-eyed visual tropes can be taken and still make you go, "Aww."; and Ryan's most infamous strip to-date, "The Gaytriot," which caused a p.c.-stir when it was included in The Comics Journal's otherwise-sincere and serious "Cartoonists on Patriotism" volume in 2002. It also features an all-new Gaytriot epilogue! Plus, 16 pages in color! IN MY DARKEST HOUR By Wilfred Santiago 128 pages $14.95 ISBN 1-56097-591-1 The Age of Anxiety has never been better depicted in comics form than in In My Darkest Hour, a modernist, mainstream graphic novel that explores the inner life of its protagonist, Omar Guerrero, a 28 year-old Latin American transient, who confronts his pervasive feelings of inadequacy, anger, guilt, and escalating alienation. The first full-length graphic novel from Pop Life collaborator Wilfred Santiago, told in a lovely two-color format. DECADENCE: 300 YEARS OF JAPANESE FETISH ART Edited by Davis Bromwell & Carol Gnojewski 96 pages Hardcover $24.95 ISBN 1-56097-565-2 This is a lush, full-color coffee table art book comprising a survey of Ukiyo-e poster art, which was a genre of Japanese wood block prints of the ancient Edo period (1600-1867) that continue to inspire and inform creators of Japanese manga and anime. Decadence focuses on shunga prints, or Japanese erotica. Shunga was designed to titillate, depicting a range of traditional themes such as exotic Asian beauties in intimate, pin-up poses and dramatic couplings with fierce warriors wielding enormous "swords," macabre supernatural lovers, and bestial animals and monsters. Proving the universality of fetishism and sexual fantasies, this erotic guide serves to bridge the ancient and the modern, providing a glimpse into by-gone pleasures and pleasure districts, as well as their influences on contemporary Japanese popular culture and erotic literature. ZIPPY: FROM HERE TO ABSURDITY By Bill Griffith 128 page $19.95 ISBN 1-56097-618-7 This new Zippy collection features approximately a year's worth of strips, from November 2003 through November 2004, including full-color Sundays. Follow Zippy as he weaves in and out of "Bushmiller Country" (the land formerly inhabited by Ernie Bushmiller's classic Nancy comic strip) and - as if things weren't strange enough - he suddenly begins spouting Japanese, French, Russian, Farsi, Hungarian, Greek, Finnish and Latin! Zippy meets aliens, revisits Levittown (his birthplace) with Griffy, confronts the evil "Ziggy" and frolics with advertising icons like Reddy Kilowatt, Mr. Bubble, Colonel Sanders and the long-forgotten Unifax Astroboy. Oh, yeah, and he takes a long, hot bath (without Mr. Bubble). Also featured, a 3 page series of Zippyesque "art history lessons". Each strip shows the work of different well-known fine artistes of the recent past depicted on banners in a circus sideshow. Various customers contemplate the displays, a little unsure about whether or not to enter the tent. See the "Crying Picasso Girl"! The Rene Magritte "Apple-Face Man"! Edward Hopper's "Haunted Housewife"! Alberto Giacometti's "Dead Man Walking"! The series ends with Zippy & Griffy finally going in to "expose the con game", only to confront a guy who convices them he's psychic healer Gary Spivey!! New Sunday strips include visits to other comics genres, including '50s sci-fi, Romance Comics ("Young Lust" redux!) and Irving Tripp's "Little Lulu". NEW COMICS: FATTY ARBUCKLE AND HIS FUNNY FRIENDS Cover by Kim Deitch 32 pages $4.95 This book compiles a jolly good number of the "Kinema Comics" from the 1920's featuring a legendary and controversial giant of the silver screen - Fatty Arbuckle. Like his vaudevillian films with Mack Sennett, Paramount and Vitaphone, these comics captured the same spirit - Arbuckle tricks the trickster, doles out humility to the rich, and always gets the pretty girl. Also included are shorts featuring Mabel Normand, Snub Pollard and more! With an introduction by Arbuckle documentarian Paul E Gierucki and cover by film lover Kim Deitch. It's like having your own festival of comedy shorts in one place! THE COMICS JOURNAL #264 Cover by Ivan Brunetti 192 pages $9.95 UPC 0-74470-74114-5- 12 Now revamped with more pages - including 64 in color! - and higher quality reproduction, The Comics Journal continues to be the most wide-ranging and critically astute magazine about contemporary comics and cartooning. This issue features a cover interview with Ivan Brunetti, a cartoonist known for his caustic, scabrous, and self-lacerating comic Schizo as well as the cartoon collection Haw! Brunetti discusses his particular brand of misanthropic humor in an interview with Journal editor Gary Groth. Plus, a 30-page, full-color excerpt of Harold (Little Orphan Annie) Gray's rarely see Little Joe comic strip! Underground comics are highlighted this issue in two major features: Patrick Rosenkranz, the author of the underground comix history Rebel Visions, provides an historical profile of the major underground publishers -Gary Arlington, Don Donahue, Ron Turner, Denis Kitchen, Don Schenker, Bob Rita, and Fred & Kathe Todd - in a long essay based on interviews with all the participants. Second, his own book comes under the knife in a series of critiques of his own history of underground comix by the underground cartoonists he covered in the book itself! Plus our columns covering European comics, manga, newspaper strips, and other facets of the medium, industry commentary by Steven Grant, Dirk Deppey, and others, investigative journalism, letters, a full color reprint of a rare, archival comic from the 1950s, and a word or two about George Bush and Martin Heidegger, all in the most iconoclastic and unorthodox magazine about comics in the world. LOVE & ROCKETS # 12 By Los Bros Hernandez 32-pages $4.50 Jaime starts a new seven-issue series documenting a week in the life of Hopey Glass, and gives us another great stand-alone Ray story. This handsome new issue also includes the latest "Julio's Day" chapter, featuring Julio's brother, Benjamin, returning from fighting the Japanese in the Philippines - with a Japanese wife!; Also, another installment of Motivational Speaker Mark's troubles with his ex-wife; and the revealing of a mysterious sea monster's history. Jaime starts a new seven-issue series documenting a week in the life of Hopey Glass, and gives us another great Ray story. Viva Los Bros! +++++ December NEWS RELEASES Andy Bridges, Diamond Dialogue Managing Editor (410) 560-7100 . bandy@diamondcomics.com November 29, 2004 Diamond Updates Bookshelf Website Diamond's Bookshelf website - designed to help educators and librarians discover how comics can become a dynamic and positive addition to classrooms and libraries - has been updated with new information and features! The site, http://bookshelf.diamondcomics.com, is the perfect place for retailers to get library-friendly information, and also a site to which they can point their local libraries for information on comics and graphic novels. New features at the website include "Face Out," a section that focuses on a particular publisher and its titles. Named for books that are shelved face-out (as opposed to spine-out), these are the titles that are special and deserve extra attention. Each month, Diamond will select a publisher and focus on bringing you up to speed on its wares. We hope this will make it easier to navigate the thousands of titles available on the Bookshelf, and maybe draw your attention to some books you may have missed before! Other Bookshelf features include: . Testimonials: Many librarians and educators have written extensively about the utility of adding graphic novels to library collections and classroom curricula. Throughout this site, you'll find examples of their opinions, but we've also collected some of the very best excerpts on this page for you. . Cataloging: Diamond has provided cataloging information, to further help librarians find a place for graphic novels in their stacks. The information can either be viewed as a web page, or downloaded as a tab-delimited file for import into a database, spreadsheet, etc. . Resources: Want to learn more about graphic novels? Here are some of our favorite resources. . Comics Shop Support: An ongoing feature of the Bookshelf site is its focus on directing educators and librarians to the comic book specialty shops in their area. . And much more! Retailers should also be aware of Diamond's Library Introduction Letter (available at https://retailer.diamondcomics.com/main/library_letter.asp), which can be used to offer your store as a source of graphic novels, trade paperbacks, and more for the schools and libraries in your area. And be sure to visit the News & Info page of Diamond Online's Retailer Services Area at https://retailer.diamondcomics.com/main/news.asp to download the Diamond Bookshelf Catalog in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf file extension). Look for more site improvements - including better search capabilities - in the coming months. More information can be found at the Bookshelf website: http://bookshelf.diamondcomics.com. Diamond Spreads Out Shipments of Backlist Previews Items Acting on retailer suggestions, effective immediately, orders for backlist products solicited in Previews - listed as either Offered Again or Star System items - will be sent to retailers in staggered shipments. Previously, all backlist items for a given month shipped over two weeks - flat items one week and other merchandise the next week. Now, Diamond will split the flat items to ship over the course of two shipments, spreading the total backlist order out over three weeks. This is intended to even out the flow of product for retailers' weekly shipments. "We hope this helps store owners to even out both their cash flow and the flow of product to their shelves," said Diamond Executive Director of Order Processing/Purchasing John Wurzer. Retailers with questions about this new shipping policy should contact their Customer Service Representative. Diamond/Alliance Calendar Ships In December, specialty retailers can begin planning for the year ahead with the 2005 Diamond Comic Distributors/Alliance Game Distributors Calendar, which is provided free of charge to all customers. Shipping on December 8, the calendar - which measures 11" x 17" when opened - includes full-color images from many of today's top vendors, including Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles, Gemstone Publishing, Monogram International, TOKYOPOP, and Viz, LLC. The calendar also acts as a wonderful resource for retailers, since it contains dates of holidays, major industry conventions and trade shows, and deadlines for submitting orders to Diamond and Alliance. (410) 560-7100 . bandy@diamondcomics.com November 29, 2004 Diamond Holiday Shipping Schedule Due to upcoming holidays, Diamond will deliver product the weeks of December 27 and January 3 according to the following schedule: HOLIDAY SHIP U.S. CANADA1 U.K. INT'L ACCTS2 WEEK Boxing Day (Canada)3 Dec 27 Wed 12/29 Thu 12/30 No change No change First Week of January Jan 3 Wed Jan 5 Thu Jan 6 24-hr. delay No change 1) Diamond customers located in Eastern Canada outside a one-day delivery zone will now receive their weekly shipments on Friday, December 31 the week of Christmas, and on Friday, January 7 the week of New Year's. 2) International accounts serviced by the U.S. (excluding Canada) will probably see some delays due to flight and airport issues in December and the first week of January, but there should be no delays due to schedules in Los Angeles or Memphis 3) There will be no change to U.S. shipments for December and the first week of January. However, there will be no direct shipments on December 24 and 31. Additionally, the remote cut off for customers serviced by the Plattsburgh Distribution Center will be Monday, December 20, to be included in the December 29 shipment. There will be no remotes for the January 5 shipment. Prepare for Post-Holiday Profits with Previews Exclusives Each month, Diamond's Previews catalog offers a wealth of hot products that are available only in its pages, not to mention Shared Exclusives, the latest merchandise from Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles, and much more - including these must-have offerings! . How to Draw Manga: Costume Encyclopedia Volume 2 - Intimate Apparel SC (DEC043185H): This "How to" book by Hikaru Hayashi and Kimiko Morimoto includes more than 4,000 illustrations showing the details of drawing undergarments on a figure, as well as a detailed history of intimate apparel. The book is intended for mature readers. . Smallville Magazine #6 Previews Exclusive Edition (DEC043095H): This 52-page issue of Smallville Magazine from Titan Publishing features commentary from Kristin Kreuk, who plays Lana Lang on the hit series. Also, Eric Johnson and Jensen Ackles discuss their characters, Whitney Fordham and Jason Teague. (Please Note: For every 5 copies of Smallville Magazine #6 in any combination retailers will receive 2 copies of Smallville Yearbook PX edition free.) . Inu-Yasha Previews Exclusive Work Shirt (DEC043353-6H): This black work shirt is made out of 100% cotton. It features an embroidered logo of the hit anime Inu-Yasha on the front and a print on the back. This style is available in four sizes (Med- XXL). . Shi Ju-Nen #1 Previews Exclusive Signed Graphite Edition (DEC042502E): This limited edition lithograph is gloriously reproduced on fine linen paper, numbered to only 199 editions, and signed by Shi creator Billy Tucci and painter extraordinaire' Mark Sparacio. . Shi Previews Exclusive Signed and Numbered Sketchbook (DEC042504E): Limited to only 499 editions, Crusade is proud to present this 6 1/2" x 8 1/4" hardbound exclusively offered to Previews readers, complete with original colored pencils cover illustrated by Shi creator Billy Tucci. . Transformers Previews Exclusive GN: Dark Star HC (DEC042818F): This hardback edition features all-new cover art from fabulous new artist Seth Fisher (The Flash, Green Lantern)! Collects issues #46-#50. . Alias Magazine #9 Previews Exclusive Edition (DEC043057H): In an Alias Magazine exclusive, interviews include Victor Garber (a.k.a. Agent Jack Bristow) and Carl Lumbly (a.k.a. Agent Marcus Dixon) who let readers know how they protect Sydney at all costs! . How to Draw Manga: Costume Encyclopedia Volume 2 - Intimate Apparel SC (DEC043185H): This book includes more than 4,000 illustrations showing details of these garments worn on a figure, in addition to a detailed history of intimate apparel. Moreover, it enables the reader to make practical use of the illustrations provided to easily create their own fantasy costume designs. . How to Draw Manga: Costume Encyclopedia Volume 3 - Sexy Sports Wear SC (DEC043186H): This book includes more than 4,000 illustrations showing details of sexy bathing suits and sportswear as worn on a figure, in addition to a detailed history of intimate sexy sports wear. . Transformers: Sunstorm Previews Exclusive Statue (DEC043530U): Sculpted by the 3L Creation Group, the Sunstorm Previews Exclusive Mini-Statue stands approximately 6.5" tall, features poseable arms, and is limited to 300 pieces worldwide. Painted and ready to display. CBEM 500 concludes next message . . . Thanks for subscribing to the Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine (CBEM) --------------------------->Disclaimer<--------------------------- This is an ANNOUNCE only mailing list, only the Editor can send messages to the list. No one else has access to the subscriber list. 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