Over at his website Al Columbia posts that his previously announced contribution to the Kramers Ergot 7 anthology will now be a 48-page release from Buenaventura in January entitled Belladonna.
Fantagraphics marketing machine, Eric Reynolds, has kindly collected all of his FLOG sketchbook posts into a nice neat Flickr set.
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If you have never seen any of these prepare yourself. This is one of the most epic sketchbooks I’ve ever seen—and believe me I’ve seensomeseriouslyawesomesketchbooks.
I’m sure you all remember David Pirkola, the Michigan comics retailer who was shot during a robbery of his store earlier this year. Well David is currently in recovery but his mounting medical bills remain. To help David out, BOOM! Studios, Jeffrey Brown and iFanboy are auctioning off an original page by Brown from a WARHAMMER 40,000 tribute book.
Here’s some weekend reading for you. I talked to Elijah Brubaker last week, before San Diego Comic Con, about his current project, Reich at Sparkplug. The series is a fantastic historical fiction comic about the notorious psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Now that the SDCC news floodgates are closed I feel like I can post this without it getting lost in the shuffle.
