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nedraggett:

A Giorgio Moroder story: apropos of his appearance on a certain new album — a few years ago on ILX, someone named Tilman posted saying he’d been doing research into “I Feel Love“‘s production, saying he was “particularily interested in the delay effect that he uses to “double” the synth riff, and the other means with which he creates “metrical dissonances”, e.g. the echo effects.” He indicated that he’d contacted Moroder directly about this. Moroder replied with this graphic, adding:

“Dear Mr. Tilman
this is the only way i can help you

saluti
Giorgio Moroder”

This is the greatest thing ever, of course. Credit to my friend Grady for the reminder.

I don’t care about Daft Punk. I care very much about Giorgio Moroder

(via beautravail)

I don’t tend to plug Kickstarters here (even for projects I’m involved with) but this one is for the children, sooo

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/771537978/providence-comics-consortium-rhode-island-antholog

The Providence Comics Consortium is teaching a series of comics workshops for kids at public libraries throughout the state of Rhode Island in May 2013. The PCC will publish an anthology of the kids’ comics along with the work of adult cartoonists, representing kids from all over Rhode Island and artists from all over the world. Funds raised through Kickstarter will pay for materials to self-publish and distribute an edition of five hundred 200-page comic books. 

Jesse McManus, Mickey Zacchilli, Brian Chippendale, Chris Kuzma, myself and many others will be contributing work to it. The above comic is my contribution from a previous volume, where the kids assigned me 8 scary teachers to write a 3-page comic around:

1. A teacher with a single very hairy boob
2. A one eyed zombie teacher
3. A teacher with a tiny hidden face on her back left over from an undeveloped twin
4. A teacher pregnant with a dragon
5. A bald teacher whose head is so very reflective that it melts his students
6. A teacher with 4 snake heads (one being a cobra)
7. A really really old teacher in her underwear
8. A quiet teacher who is mocked and ridiculed by the students during the day, but who, at night, reveals it’s true hooded, long-eared, reptilian form, going from house to house of the misbehaved children, eating them

Oh ho ho ho kids

Jacob York sends in this photo of Lynyrd Skynyrd pre, mid and post-licking of Very Casual! Ahhhh

jonnynegron:

Peril

Another TCAF surprise was Paul Lyons having copies of the new Monster volume on hand. The issue has me, Sam Dollenmayer, Keith Jones, Mickey Zacchilli, Marc Bell, Molly O’Connell, Seth Cooper and Devin Flynn. It’s a real honor to be able to contribute to this one.

So I had been meaning to write a little thank you note about TCAF this week, but kept forgetting. Maybe I was just waiting for a flattering photo of myself to pop up online? (This one is taken from Tom Spurgeon’s very thorough round-up of his time at the con.) 

Thank you to everyone who came out and said hi and/or purchased any of my new books. Was really happy that Koyama Press had some preview copies of the new Lose there, even though it’s not officially dropping until June. I debuted both Lose #s 2 and 3 at past TCAFs, so it feels good to have that thing with me at my hometown show. And I hope everyone who bought a copy enjoys Very Casual.

I always appreciate Koyama Press consistently putting up with me being the flakiest dude to put behind a table. And thanks to Anne Koyama for everything, of course. Tom Kaczynski brought the Structures zine I made for him and he designed it and printed it beautifully. It’s nice to get a glimpse of what my books could look like if they were designed by someone who actually knew what they were doing, instead of, you know, me.

And it’s obviously nice to see, like, sixty of my friends all descend upon the city all at once, even though there were plenty of people I wish I could have spoken to more. Karaoke with Ryan Sands, his gf, Seibei, the D+Q crew, Lisa Hanawalt, Ryan Dodgson, Paul Pope, Tom Spurgeon and many others was a surreal high point. I never want to not sit next to Michael Comeau during a Doug Wright Awards ceremony. I was too nervous to introduce myself to Bill Amend, Scott Thompson, Gengoroh Tagame.

Frontier #1 was my “book of the show” or whatever people say. American Mainstream by Ben Urkowitz, Strawberries by Mia Shwartz, New Comics by Patrick Kyle, Paranoid Apartment by Lala Albert and Inflated Head Zone by Zach Hazard are all purchases/trades I’ve enjoyed so far. I picked up a lot more that I’m looking forward to reading.

Anyway! I had a good time. Thanks to TCAF and the Beguiling staff for always knocking it out of the park. See you all at Oslo Comics Fest/CAKE.

Adam Muto checks in with this photo of Peeps daintily chewing on a corner of Lose 5, like a gentleman

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 6

Every Sunday

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

Hybrid cartoonist-father Chris Kuzma sends over a photo of his pet baby chewing on the very rare Cold Heat Special 7

1) Either Caitlin Rose Boyle’s dog Olive or the end of a mop is depicted licking the back cover of Lose #5!

2) L. Nichols’ Clarabelle hovering over a recently-slobbered on (slobber visible in the photo) Lose #4!

I was hired to draw this cover for this upcoming The Sleep of Reason anthology. It features buddies like Emily Carroll, Gabby Schulz, and many others, and is also one of the rare indie anthologies that actually pays its contributors (although typing it out now, it is a little depressing that indie anthologies treating their contributors ethically is not just, like, the norm? Anyway, I am very eager and happy to support editors and publishers making good choices like that.)

darylseitchik:

may 16 2013