Meathaus friend and fellow independent comics anthology publisher Brendan Burford has been appointed the comics editor of King Features Syndicate, home of Mutts, Blondie, and The Family Circus according to this article. Via The Beat.
There’s a teaser trailer for the upcoming movie “Fear[s] of the Dark” up at the official website. Charles Burns, Richard McGuire (above), Blutch, Lorenzo Mattotti, Pierre Disciullo and Marie Caillou all did animated shorts that make up the movie. Check it out.
How do you get published in Flight comics? Do like Tom Herpich did and make a parody of it. Now Tom’s fantastic work will be gracing the pages of the upcoming issue of Flight volume 4, although we were disappointed to see that his fluffy clouds did not end up being purple. Sample pages from Tom’s piece here and here. All the rest of the preview is here.
Here is a new review at comicbookbin of Brandon’s amazing and still evolving masterpiece, King City. King City is out now from Tokyo Pop.
Caleb writes up a nice review of Brandon Graham’s epic comic King City here.
Chris writes some initial reactions here and promises to follow up with an interview soon.
Brandon triumphantly soldiers on– a shining comics warrior here.
You can order King City Volume 1 from amazon
Adam Staffaroni writes:
“…A group of other students and I got together to create a collective website to showcase all the work we’ve been doing. The site is titled “I Know Joe Kimpel” and can be found at: www.iknowjoekimpel.com…”
Adam is a student at the recently formed Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.
Dave K published a new comic to his website about girls hanging out at the mall.
Tomer has created a new line of arts prints of his most fantastic work, available now through his new site, Monomyth.
Andrew Brandou has been painting lots of pieces, and there are a lot to look at on his website. Many of his pieces are best viewed in person because they have gold leaf. When will they develop an HTML color that tracks your vantage point and is reflective and gold and metallic on your monitor from different views? That would be a good invention.
