Look Here: LORD OF THE BLACK CORSAIRS 1974, 1975, 1977 by BWS
Shary Flenniken talks about her childhood, the creation of TROTS AND BONNIE, and more…
Cartoonist and writer Shary Flenniken created the following videos to answer questions emailed to her by Jeff Kay for his West Virginia Surf Report:
Charles Schulz on the process of drawing with one’s eyes…
“While I am carrying on a conversation with someone, I find that I am drawing with my eyes. I find myself observing how his shirt collar comes around from behind his neck and perhaps casts a slight shadow on one side. I observe how the wrinkles in his sleeve form and how his arm may be resting on the edge of the chair. I observe how the features on his face move back and forth in perspective as he rotates his head. It actually is a form of sketching and I believe that it is the next best thing to drawing itself. I sometimes feel it is obsessive, but at least it accomplishes something for me.”
— Charles Schulz
Look Here, Read: “Suddenly it all seemed so futile!”
A terrific “Peanuts” reprint from today’s Leader-Post:
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Life’s like that…
Out of Context: “Since a fiendish fate has trapped me here…”
Interlude: Homer and Jethro – “Around the World”
“Around the World” is the eighth track on the 1962 instrumental album, Playing It Straight, by comedy legends Henry “Homer” Haynes and Kenneth “Jethro” Burns:
Heads Up: THE CRACKLE OF THE FROST by Mattotti and Zentner
Originally published in 2003 by Seuil, and reprinted earlier this year by Casterman, Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner’s Le Bruit du givre will be published in English in July 2012 (according to Amazon) by Fantagraphics under the title The Crackle of the Frost (ISBN-10: 160699543X; ISBN-13: 978-1606995433).
UPDATE (31 December 2011):
Today I added what seems to be the official English-language Fantagraphics cover for The Crackle of the Frost. This may be the first time the cover has been posted at this size on the Web. I won’t say how I managed to get such a scoop, but a scoop I think it is.
Look Here: Six (more) SF covers with art by Paul Lehr
From my personal library of disintegrating pulp:
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My favourite image in the above group is Lehr’s wraparound cover for John Boyd’s The Rakehells of Heaven, even though the display font used for the title and author name is overbearing and, in places, difficult to decipher! To view all of the covers with art by Paul Lehr that I’ve posted so far, click here.
Look Here: WORLD WITHOUT END by Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones’s “four seasons” portfolio, World without End, was published by S.Q. Productions in 1980 in a signed-and-numbered limited edition of 1000. The choppy but controlled hatching style here — the antithesis of conventional comic-book rendering/feathering — was typical of Jones’s work at the time; for more examples, see “I’m Age,” the wonderful one-page strip by Jones that appeared in Heavy Metal from 1981 to 1984.
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A cheaper, “unlimited,” unsigned edition of World without End was also published, but that one did not include the black-and-white plate displayed above.
Look Here, Read: “The Vanguard” by Alex Toth
From Hot Stuf’ #4 (Spring 1977), here’s The Vanguard with story and art by Alex Toth:
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