"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
From Heavy Metal, volume IV, number 8, here’s “Sans Family” by Nicole Claveloux; as far as I’m aware, none of Claveloux’s work in comics is currently in print in English:
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Maria Cabardo is still hard at work on her documentary film, Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones, but in order to complete the editing, additional money is needed. To that end, designer Mark Winn from BSSP, an ad agency based in Sausalito, CA, has created a lovely limited-edition 27 x 38 inch poster (see below), proceeds from the sale of which will be donated to the production budget of the film. Click here for details on how to order; and yes, PayPal is accepted.
UPDATE (19 September 2011):
Well, I don’t know what happened, but it appears that the page to order the limited-edition poster has disappeared from the MaCab Films site. My apologies to everyone who clicked the link above, expecting to be able to buy a poster and support Better Things. Maybe the order information will reappear at a later date; maybe not. One would have thought that if the poster had sold out, or has been delayed, or the deal fell through, or whatever, there would have been some explanation posted on the official website. But it’s their call on how to handle fund-raising and promotion for their documentary, not mine. Different strokes for different folks.
Once again, RCN presents an assortment of vintage paperback covers scanned from my very own collection of SF “classics”:
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To view all of the paperbacks with cover art by Richard Powers that I’ve posted so far, click here.
From Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, volume 5, number 3 (August 1985), here’s the cover with art by Gahan Wilson along with an amusing fumetti-style collaboration between Gahan Wilson and photographer Arthur Paxton; in the original printing, the photographs ran, in sequence, with each on a separate page:
If you are a fan of Gahan Wilson, you will definitely want to have the magnificent three-volume, slipcased set, Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, from Fantagraphics Books — recently re-released at a new, lower price! — in your collection.
BONUS LINKS:
Comic Book Resources > 50 Years of Gahan Wilson [interview] by Chris Mautner
The Daily Cross Hatch > Interview: Gahan Wilson Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt.3, Pt. 4
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > The Infinite Kim Thompson — inspired by Marvel comics editor Mark Guenwald, “One Day, While Sitting at a Nexus…” is a grainy black-and-white photo-comic written by and starring Fantagraphics co-publisher, Kim Thompson, with photographs by John E. Thompson.
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > New Comics Day/Now Available: cheaper Ghost World & Gahan Wilson
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > Nuts by Gahan Wilson – Previews, Pre-Order
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons BLAD
Ragged Claws Network > Heads Up: NUTS by Gahan Wilson
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Coming in November December from Fantagraphics:
Fantagraphics doesn’t seem to be taking orders yet for this, the first* and final volume in their gorgeous, Chris Ware-designed, deluxe hardcover series of Krazy Kat reprints, but as soon as they do, they’ll have my money!
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*If you bought the other two volumes, you know what I’m talkin’ about! If you’re curious how the new volume fits into the cycle of Krazy Kat reprints from Fantagraphics, see my post in the comments section.
BONUS IMAGE AND HEADS UP:
BTW, if original art is your thing, and you’ve got US$23,750.00 burning a hole in your pocket, you would be well advised to trade your cash for this absolutely gorgeous, framed Krazy Kat page from the first year of the strip:
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The seller is Lewis Wayne Gallery. I’ve purchased a number of pieces of original art from Lewis Wayne Gallery over the past few years, and I’ve never had a bad experience, though, of course, your mileage may vary…
From Heavy Metal volume 1, number 4, here’s the cover, a full-page illustration, and a couple of short stories by Moebius:
BONUS LINK:
Parka Blogs > Book Review: 40 Days dans le Désert B by Moebius
Notice how Frazetta hasn’t bothered to construct any kind of a harness for the Silver Warrior’s polar bear sleigh team and how Chaykin’s attempt to supply Urlik Skarsol’s polar bear team with a semi-plausible harness — with collars that look as though they might be made out of big, black inner tubes recycled from old truck tires — actually diminishes rather than enhances Frazetta’s gloriously silly original concept by drawing undue attention to the mundane question of how, exactly, the fantasy hero’s cool mode of transportation could be made to work in the real world and whether Chaykin’s design is, in fact, a viable solution.
BONUS IMAGE (Added 27 December 2013):
Ragged Claws Network 