Alternative Comics cartoonist James Kochalka created this nifty poster to promote the big music event at Nectar’s in Burlington, Vermont on Saturday, August 23, 2008.
Archive for August, 2008
The Great Great Grandshow
August 8, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008 (from 7pm to 11pm) is the Grand Opening of the August 16th through September 1st Great Great Grandshow at Gallery Nucleus, in the heart of quaint downtown Alhambra, just East of Los Angeles.
A most splendid exhibit yielding praises from the far reaches of the globe–featuring work of pleasing and titillating nature that explores antiquities of yore, figures of late, and tales of yesteryear.
A visual quartet of ink, watercolor, and paints, produced by the likes of:
Graham Annable
Scott Campbell
Jon Klassen
Israel Sanchez
Noteworthy ceremonies on opening night in which to partake:
- “Historic Figures” Photography booth
- Arrive in attire resembling an iconic figure of history and obtain a generous deduction of 15% on all in-store items (example: Abraham Lincoln, Genghis Kahn, Ninja, Pirate, Sherlock Holmes)
- The debut of Graham Annable’s animated short From Whence Before Times
- Trade an exhibition flyer for a free “Great Great Grandshow” button
- Complimentary refreshments served
Check out some of Graham’s films here: http://www.youtube.com/user/grickle
Eisner Award to Alternative Comics cartoonist Rich Tommaso
August 2, 2008
2008 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work
Alternative Comics cartoonist Rich Tommaso (Miriam, Perverso!, 8-1/2 Ghosts) and James Sturm, Director of The Center for Cartoon Studies, have won the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for their Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, published by The Center for Cartoon Studies in conjunction with Hyperion Books. James Sturm is the writer and Rich Tommaso the Illustrator.
The duo have been receiving rave reviews and have won and have been nominated for numerous other awards including Booklist’s Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth: 2008, and the Glyph Award, among many.
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
Sam Henderson book signing in New York
August 1, 2008
WHO: Sam Henderson
WHAT: Book signing
WHERE: Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn NY 11211 • 718-388-5087
WHEN: Friday, August 15, 6PM
Admission is free to the public
New York, August 1, 2008: At what promises to be the most happening event since the premiere party for ‘Stroker Ace’, cartoonist Sam Henderson is doing a signing at Desert Island in Brooklyn on Friday, August 15, 2008 from 6-9 PM, signing copies of his newest Magic Whistle book, which is popular among people who know it exists.
“Even if you have my new book already/ just saw me/ were just there/ don’t like me/ don’t like the owner/ have other plans/ it’s raining, come anyway.” said cartoonist Sam Henderson, “There will be beer, and I know most of you like that.”
Magic Whistle #11: Body Armor For Your Dignity is the latest collection of works by Sam Henderson. Praised for finding new ways of being funny while simultaneously panned for lacking the draftsmanship skills of his peers, Henderson continues what he’s been doing all along for nearly twenty years. This 96-page tome contains stories ranging from 1 to 16 pages.
Magic Whistle #11: Body Armor For Your Dignity features the return of Monroe Simmons, a re-coloring of a story previously published in the children’s’ anthology MEASLES, tons of previously unpublished strips, and the high-low-brow humor audiences have come to expect from this cartoonist who has been nominated multiple times for a Harvey award and once for an Emmy. Despite work for publications such as NICKELODEON and VICE; storyboards for TV’s SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS; and animation for a video by THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS; Magic Whistle remains Sam Henderson’s proudest achievement.
From Booklist, August 1, 2008:
More of Henderson’s crude but maximally energetic comics—hurray! They’re like no other artist’s, even if they do stand squarely in the traditions of big-nose gag cartooning (see Mark Newgarden’s We All Die Alone, 2005, to grok that) and bare-bones animation (Mister Magoo, Tom Terrific, Rocky and Bullwinkle). Their humor is sometimes innocently naughty, sometimes almost smart, always easy to identify with and oddly nostalgic. They look and “sound” like what you once drew and laughed at, even if, really, you never could draw or say anything funny; it helps that Henderson often recurs to childhood and adolescence for characters and situations. His single-panel cartoons and one-page strips are surefire joy-inducers (see “Patience Pays Off,” which may be hackneyed but still hits where you live), and his long stories are brilliant stuck-record routines that, like many a Monty Python sketch, trace the struggles of genial monomaniacs in a world that just won’t humor them. Come to think of it, if the Pythons had been Americans, they would have to have been Sam Henderson.
Magic Whistle #11: Body Armor For Your Dignity
By Sam Henderson, $11.95 US; Perfect bound paperback graphic novel; 96 pages; partial color; 6” x 9”; ISBN-13: 978-1-934460-04-7; ISBN-10: 1-934460-04-4; for Mature Readers.
