Mineshaft Magazine is an off-set printed little comics zine with contributors that span generations of comics scenes including big names from the “underground” like R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson. The first few issues were put together with rubber cement in some kind of combination of log cabins and chicken coops, but they’ve now got their production methods down and serious fans looking forward to each issue. Older issues are getting sold out. It would be cool to see PDF versions on the website of sold out issues and more art, but there is enough stuff there to whet your art desire. Checkitout and buy issues here.
Asaf Hanuka, brother of equal renown and genetic make up of Tomer, has begun to post the serialized comics story of his family searching for a new place to live, called The Realist.
Hey wow check out all of the comics thoughts that are available for you to read on the relatively recently redesigned The Comics Journal and Comics Comics blogs. Looking good, guys.
February 26, 2010 – 6:03 am
I wonder if life would have ended up being more awesome or less awesome if I had been reading Heavy Metal Magazine as a teenager. It ended up that I only bought one issue from a gas station in Alabama back on tour ‘98. Designer/illustrator Eric Carl has a late 1980s through early 2000s collection of the magazine of which he scanned covers to his cool variety of Flickr sets. What does a magazine full of weird sultry cyborg warrior sluts from the future do to the young man’s mind?
February 16, 2010 – 6:47 am
Marco Corona draws fantastic looking sketchbook drawings and comics and you can see them on his Flickr pages and his blog.
February 16, 2010 – 6:12 am
Jesse Moynihan, artist of the epic Forming, Arthur and Meathaus contributor (see Forming sketches in GO FOR THE GOLD! 3) and fellow Philadelphian has been enlisted into the ranks of Cartoon Network’s cartoon factory to labor on Adventure Time, where another Meathaus Man, Mr. Thomas Herpich, has been comfortably destroying his assignments like nobody’s business. Moynihan has a temporary post, or maybe a temporary-temporary post in a business where all positions are temporary, but as he explains on his blog, the job should float him for the rest of the year in which he can focus on drawing more of his intense, full-color comics offered to you weekly and free of charge. Nice!
Now as Forming is on a hiatus, it is a good time to catch up or start from the beginning.
February 15, 2010 – 6:13 am
Bendik Kaltenborn art is featured uncredited as one of two covers in a post a few posts below this here, he did one of the covers of the “Kush” comics anthology. Thanks to Mr. Giard’s comments on the same post, his portfolio of work and more have been brought to my attention and they are a trove of eyeball-treasure.
February 10, 2010 – 1:44 pm
C’est Bon Anthology is put out by C’est Bon Kultur in Sweden and features the talents of comics creators worldwide alongside feature articles such as the Mike Diana interview pictured above from a recent issue. James contributed the cover for Volume 3. These dudes often show up at MoCCA in NYC so if they come again this year you can check their wares out in person.
February 9, 2010 – 6:39 am
Mel Stringer is an illustrator in Australia that often draws comics or comics-leaning illustrations so let’s call this post “Mel Stringer Comics”, why not? See her blog and her Flickr.
January 20, 2010 – 6:50 am
Jesse Reklaw makes the comic Slow Wave where people send him their dreams and he makes comics out of them incorporated into a fictional narrative. He also went on a comics tour back in ‘08 which instigated a pile of diary comics here on his Flickr account twenty pages deep. You can buy copies at Global Hobo.
