Robert Goodin’s COVERED

OH MY GOD

Cartoonist Robert Goodin has launched a blog called COVERED where he gets artists to recreate their favorite comic book covers. Here’s the first contribution—Jeff Brown doing Secret Wars #10…

There’s also a new contribution up from Criterion Collection project designer Eric Skillman!

(via FLOG)

Stoked: Lilli Carré in MOME 14

Over at FLOG, Eric Reynolds announces that Lilli Carré will have a 32-page full color story in MOME Vol. 14 called “The Carnival,” as well as the cover.

Photo Parade: Kramers and Grampá

Sammy Harkham’s store, Family, in L.A., hosted a signing for Kramers Ergot 7 this past Sunday, with many of the contributing cartoonists in attendance.

from nowherefront FLICKR

Here are some other FLICKR photostreams with pictures of the event…
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Walt Holcombe
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(all photos were found via FLICKR search. if you’d like me to remove any of these links for some reason email me:dpaggi[at]wizardent[dot]com)

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Desert Island in Brooklyn hosted a release party for Rafael Grampá’s Mesmo Delivery. Rafael came all the way from Brazil to hang out with folks.
Desert Island has a few photos on their FLICKR.

Jeff Lemire Gets Real

Jeff Lemire, the cartoonist behind the acclaimed Essex Country Trilogy (Tales From The Farm, Ghost Stories and The Country Nurse), reposts his guest entry from a Portland bookstore blog giving a look into the real Essex County his books were based on.

All of my stories start with the setting, and even more than that, location totally informs how my characters and plots grow and take shape. The Essex County books (Tales From The Farm, Ghost Stories, The Country Nurse), all started when I decided to do a book set in the tiny Canadian farming town where I grew up.

Check it out.

Mesmo Delivery

Check out Rachel Molino’s Mesmo Delivery article from Wizard 206!

Farel…

Farel Darymple has been posting more images on his blog lately. Like this one…

Pretty face melting stuff.

Dalrymple recently finished up a 10-issue Omega the Unknown series at Marvel with novelist Jonathan Lethem, colored by Paul Hornschemeier. Wikipedia says he’s currently working on Pop Gun War Vol. 2, which if true is very cool news.

Mondays in October

Crazy right?

Here’s some links….

-Vasilis Lolos says he’s going to post new strips on his blog every Monday. The first one is pretty radical, so go look then bookmark then keep checking.

-SKETCHBOOK MADNESS. Go look at updates from Leigh Walton’s Tin Tin book, Sean Tiberius Collins’ David Bowie book and my own Calvin & Hobbes book. And while your at it, go read Mike Baehr’s (Fantagraphics) interview with StarWars.com regarding his epic Yoda sketchbook.

-Paul Pope offers up a sneak peak at Battling Boy and illustrates a little Bone tribute.

-New comics from Maris Wicks (SPX related and more).

-Congrats to Tom Neely on his marriage!

-On November 14th, Rafael Grampá will make his way from São Paulo, Brazil to Brooklyn, New York for a Mesmo Delivery release party at Desert Island Comics! Mark your calendars now!

Secret Stash: The Last Call

Go check out Wizard 206’s Secret Stash article for 2008 Harvey Award winner, Vasilis Lolos’ The Last Call!

Click here!

Fears of the Dark Trailer

Go take a gander at the Fears of the Dark trailer over at Apple. Fears of the Dark is an anthology style animated horror movie directed by six different graphic artists—including Charles Burns of Black Hole fame. From what I can tell, Burns’ segment involves giant preying mantis. Awesome.

The animation is obviously based on Burns’ own artwork and is just fantastic. Check out a still from the Burns directed segment below.

© 2007 Prima Linea Productions / Charles Burns

Go check out Farel Dalrymple at Top Shelf 2.0!

For Real!