Bill Cheng's Blog, page 55
December 2, 2013
This is basically all I can think about after the Amazon drone...
This is basically all I can think about after the Amazon drone news…
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November 29, 2013
fantagraphics:
Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014...
Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we’re continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We’ve also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.)
Bumf 1: I Buggered the Kaiser
by Joe Sacco
64-page black & white 6.625” x 10.5” softcover • $12.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-748-2
Author Joe Sacco promises that, in the vein of underground comix like ZAP or Weirdo, “Bumf will go where it needs to go, and do what it needs to do.” Though Sacco is world-famous for his serious, journalistic books like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, and Footnotes in Gaza, Bumf promises to echo back to his earlier days as a satirist and underground cartoonist. Bumf is a project that Sacco has been working on in between larger projects like Footnotes in Gaza, indulging his love of satire and cartooning. Often puerile, disgusting, and beyond redemption, Sacco apologizes in advance, saying he couldn’t help himself. “They expect better things from me. They’ll never put me on a stamp now.”
The Complete Eightball 1-18
by Daniel Clowes
454-page full-color 7” x 10.625” two-volume hardcover boxed set • $94.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-757-4
Before he rose to fame as the author of the bestselling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published. Included are over 450 pages of vintage Clowes, including such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants as “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron,” “Ghost World,” “Pussey,” “I Hate You Deeply,” “Sexual Frustration,” “Ugly Girls,” “Why I Hate Christians,” “Message to the People of the Future,” “Paranoid,” “My Suicide,” “Chicago,” “Art School Confidential,” “On Sports,” “Zubrick and Pogeybait,” “Hippypants and Peace-Bear,” “Grip Glutz,” “The Sensual Santa,” “Feldman,” “Glue Destiny,” and so many more, including many never reprinted before now.
What’s more, the slipcase will boast BRAND NEW ARTWORK created by Clowes especially for this set (rather than the artwork in our preliminary mockup shown here)!
All of our Kickstarter rewards that include this book (with sketches and/or signatures) are sold out for now, but keep checking for updates!
Reasons I’m Behind in My Writing: A Limited (hopefully)...
Reasons I’m Behind in My Writing: A Limited (hopefully) Series
3.) self-actualization
November 28, 2013
Reasons I’m Behind in My Writing: A Limited (hopefully)...
Reasons I’m Behind in My Writing: A Limited (hopefully) Series
2.) Stuck on the island.
November 27, 2013
Look what Jason Porter (author of the can’t-come-soon-enough Why Are You So Sad) made for...
Look what Jason Porter (author of the can’t-come-soon-enough Why Are You So Sad) made for me.
He’ll make one for you too if you pre-order Why Are You So Sad? from your favorite independent bookstore!
Reasons I’m Behind in My Writing: A Limited (hopefully)...
Reasons I’m Behind in My Writing: A Limited (hopefully) Series
1.) This freaking guy.
November 26, 2013
theolduvaigorge:
Orang-utans
by Maree Woolley
Maree Woolley is...
by Maree WoolleyMaree Woolley is “a freelance 2D animator and illustrator. [She] likes to draw and develop concepts using both traditional and digital tools”.
(Source: Behance)
danielclowes:
Two book by Daniel Clowes, each signed and with a...
Two book by Daniel Clowes, each signed and with a sketch, for sale here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dan-Clowes-Signed-copy-Ghost-World-w-Enid-Sketch-/281211852642
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dan-Clowes-Signed-Copy-of-David-Boring-w-Yellow-Streak-Sketch-/281211847410
As written in the description: “100% of the proceeds from these art sales go to American Red Cross and their efforts in the Philippines for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.”
Heart of Darkness, Page 99
I have lost some books in the re-reading. Stories which fell far short or disappointed me bitterly in some totally unexpected way once revisited. Heart of Darkness, like Moby-Dick and a handful of others, is one of those rare books that seems to pull me into it more deeply upon each…
