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puketrick:

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Rescue Pet translated for Zone 5300

ianchachere:

My submission for Michael DeForge’s photo contest. My fiance Jesse’s tarantula Maurice eating out of “Very Casual”. The last photo is cricket guts (Maurice’s signature).

Very intense photo session

This comic was cut out of an anthology being released soon-ish (the editor was cool about it, though.) So I thought I’d post it here

Logo for Hazlitt’s podcast, “The Arcade”

koyamapress:

Michael DeForge’s collection of comics culled from anthologies, limited run mini-comics and award-winning one-offs, Very Casual (9780987963079 | May 2013 | $15.00 | Trade Paper) has been reviewed by Douglas Wolk in the  The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

“[Very Casual] collects perverse, funny, haunting stories by the Canadian cartoonist Michael DeForge, whose pet subject is the overwhelming creepiness of bodies. Everything and everyone in his drawings is dripping, bubbling and developing unsightly growths. He warps and dents the assured, geometrical forms of vintage newspaper strips and new wave-era graphics into oddly adorable horrors; his stories are prone to whiplash formal shifts.” — Douglas Wolk, The New York Times

Read the whole review here!

Very Casual in the NYT Sunday Book Review! Dang

Alex checks in with this photo of Bret and Very Casual

cakechicago:

CAKE DEBUT: Eye of the Majestic Creature vol 2 by Leslie Stein

Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 2 is the second book collecting Leslie Stein’s loose, funny and charming autobiographical narratives that combine idiosyncratic fantasy and stark reality. Larrybear, our hero, has moved from the countryside to the city, where she finds work as a shop girl. Quotes from Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie are sprinkled throughout the story to add humor and poignancy. Stein then takes us back to a childhood in the ’80s filled with odd experiences including joining a rock band with older people, sitting in on her mother’s AA groups, and the mystery of the disappearing gumballs. Finally, a fun story in which Larrybear and her new friend Poppin the Flower go on a strange trip to see his father. Let us not forget that Marshmallow, Ping-Ping and Mimolette, Larry’s walking and talking instruments, have adventures all their own.

Stein’s gorgeous cartooning, highlighted by incredibly detailed stippling, and her dry sense of humor combine to make one of the most unique and immersive narrative experiences in comics.

Leslie Stein was born in Evanston, Illinois but now resides in Brooklyn, New York. Fantagraphics publishes her series Eye of the Majestic Creature. She plays guitar in a band called Prince Rupert’s Drops.

Fantagraphics is a publisher of the World’s Greatest Cartoonists

Visit Fantagraphics’ website, and pick up Eye of the Majestic Creature at Tables 13 & 14June 15 & 16th!

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 8

Every Sunday (early this week because of travel stuff)

http://michaeldeforge.wordpress.com/category/sticks-angelica/

snakeoily:

First copy! #habit #josh Simmons #oilycomics #comics available in June.

poster with patrick kyle for a beguiling event we’re doing together

slomeau:

Vazaleen Jan 27. 2006. This poster was originally intended to mourn the ending of the monthly party cycle we participated in for 6 years.  That is an extra long time for a party to run for.  Vazaleen then became a Pride event in summer and a Halloween party in fall.  This poster is kind of a fetishization of persecution.  A crowd of the righteous burns the demons out of some gaylord.  The connotations of this poster has changed with the passing of Will.  Will Munro was the promoter and dj behind this party.  He was an activist, artist, restauranteur.  His greatest gift was that of community catalyst.  It took alot of people to pull off a party this size and Will was at the eye of the storm.  He didn’t drink or do drugs, he was calm and bemused by the crazed debauchery of Vazaleen.  We met in art school, bonded over punk shows we both attended.  There was no grand plan in asking me to do these posters I had a shop and could do them.  No one knew the party would get so huge or that people would care about the posters.  Will joined the Punchclock print collective after I did and I taught him how to print.  He printed posters for some of the other parties he threw but I continued the Vazaleen series.  In 2008 he was diagnosed with brain cancer and died May 21 2010.  I’ll write some more about what happened on later posts.  It is impossible to summarize what he and the resulting community I was surrounded with means to me.  Mostly though I became the artist I am because he asked it of me.  Perhaps that is what you the reader can take away, whom in your life do you request greatness from?  It is indeed a generous expectation. #vazaleen #willmunro #michaelcomeau

youthindecline:

FRONTIER #3: Sascha Hommer

The third issue of Youth in Decline’s flagship monograph series will feature comics by the fantastic German cartoonist, Sascha Hommer! 

Sascha Hommer is a talented and funny cartoonist, author of Insekt, Dri Chinisin, Vier Augen, and a number of short comics for publications such as ORANG, CityTales Blog, and Strapazin.

Planning for a Winter 2013 debut, this issue will mark Sascha’s first publication in English!  As long, longtime fans of Sascha’s work, this is a great treat to bring his work over for audiences outside of Europe.

See more of Sascha Hommer’s work at his personal blog. 

Yooooooo

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Matthew Pettit sends in the first turtle entry in my ongoing campaign to have animals to lick food off of my comics