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spideretc:

XMAS COMIC #1

an exceptional collection of incredible comics about xmas.

featuring the outstanding work of: PATRICK KYLE, MICHAEL DEFORGE and MICKEY ZACCHILLI

maybe available at TCAF. or online right now: http://pricetapes.storenvy.com/products/1500923-xmas-comic-1

one more debut for TCAF that I didn’t realize would be coming this weekend! me, patrick and mickey made a Christmas comic

Hey! Just found out this zine I made for Tom Kaczynski “Structures” series will be out in time for TCAF this weekend. They’ll be on sale at the Uncivilized Books table, and maybe for sale (or at least display) at mine as well!

For those of you who aren’t coming to TCAF, it is available to preorder from the Uncivilized site.

Cover design by Tom K!

franco - back cover for something

spacefacebooks:

The Boy in Question by Michael DeForge is now available for pre-order! 

7 x 10 inches, 20 b&w pages, $7 + $2 US shipping

Shipping May 22nd!

This weekend is the 2013 Toronto Comics Arts Festival! I’ll be tabling with the Koyama Press table. Come drop by and say hello!

My big debut for the show is Very Casual, a collection of short stories from various anthologies and minis I’ve made over the past few years. It’s published by Koyama Press, 152 pages and 15 dollars.

There will also be some advance copies of Lose #5 at the table! This thing doesn’t officially drop til June, but Koyama Press apparently has a limited amount for sale at the show. 48 pages, 8 dollars.

I’m also finally printing up Loose #3, the third instalment of my cruddy sketchbook zine series. I’m not going to be printing many of these, and they won’t ever be for sale online. I’ll be bringing 50 to TCAF, 25 to the Oslo Comics Fest and 25 to CAKE and that’s it. Includes weird sketchbook jams with Lala Albert, Jonny Negron, Leslie Stein, Keith Jones and whatever else I find in my books when I bring them to Kinkos this week.

I’ll of course have some older minis and comics for sale with me, and maybe some Risographed and silkscreened art prints.

Also! I’m nominated for a 2013 Doug Wright Award, so catch me sweating in the front row at the Saturday night ceremony. It’s hosted by Scott Thompson (!) who I am enjoying a lot on Hannibal right now.

I’ll also be participating in some festival programming. From 12:15 – 1:15, I’ll be at the Forest Hill Ballroom with Jess Fink, CF, Matt Kindt, Rutu Modan and Patrick McEown, which is presumably a panel about assembling the most random selection of cartoonists possible. I’ll also be on the Adventure Time panel from 4:00-5:00 with Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb, Mike Holmes, Meredith Gran, Danielle Corsetto and Steve Wolfhard.

left this in Lala’s sketchbook and forgot about it. she helpfully e-mailed me a 1200 dpi scan of it

comicsworkbook:

Behold THE INFINITE CORPSE, a jam comic started in secret over a year ago by Aaron Renier, Nate Beaty and the other cartoonists of Chicago’s comics collective Trubble Club. Based on a combination of Raw’s Narrative Corpse project and Scott McCloud’s idea of the “infinite canvas,” it’s a kind of exquisite corpse comic focused around the skeleton Corpsey. There are already 200+ cartoonists who’ve participated (Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, Pen Ward, Carol Tyler, Ivan Brunetti, Lilli Carré etc etc etc) and now it is open to everyone. So go, read! Contribute! Be a part of this ground-breaking new project!

-Jessica Campbell

(via fantagraphics)

majesticcreature:

Pussy Willy - Part One 

New VICE comics

plslala:

left: i don’t remember drawing this (sometime before i went to sleep a few weeks ago)

right: in collaboration with michael deforge

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 4

Every Sunday

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

thespithouse:

——comix:

“Weird Dead Comics,” by Door Tree, Paul Petro and Curt Partee.

comicsworkbook:

I’m going to be doing a summer correspondence course. The focus will be on advancing your understanding of layouts, color, contour line drawing, and printmaking for producing comic books.  The 8-week class is $500. Payment plans available. This class is limited: only ten students will be accepted.

Who the hell am I? I’ve been drawing comics since 1988 – and writing about comics since 1995. I’ve taught drawing at Parsons. My work has been exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have worked as an assistant to fine arts painters such as Francesco Clemente, Dorothea Rockburne and Gary Panter. Many of my paintings are in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger. My comic Storeyville is, allegedly, one of Chris Ware’s favorites. I’ve collaborated with Ben Jones. I was in a drawing contest against the French master Blutch – and it was deemed a tie! I have appeared in two volumes of Kramers Ergot. I am working with Dash Shaw on an animation project. I worked for the silkscreen wizard Frank Kozik. I am friends with Yuichi Yokoyama. I got into a yelling match with Brian Chippendale because I’m against photo-referencing. Jaime Hernandez taught me where all the freeways meet in Los Angeles. Gilbert Hernandez said my comic Pompeii was “pretty good”.

Application guidelines:

-3 figure drawings done on 3 x 5 index cards

-3 landscape drawings done on 3 x 5 index cards

-3 still life drawings done on 3 x 5 cards

-specific url links to any comics work you have done. 

Applications due by June 1st. Email me - capneasyATgmailDOTcom - and I will send you an invite to the course blog so you see what it’s like. Check out my “Layout Workbook” series over at The Comics Journal. Overseas students welcome. Payment plans available - I will work with you to make it affordable. Thanks! -Frank Santoro

comicsworkbook:

My favorite comics these days seem to come from north of the border. Hair Shirt by Patrick McEown, Very Casual by Michael DeForge and Journal by Julie Delporte.

-FS