Too early to look ahead to cartoon books coming out in 2013? Nah! Looking through Amazon’s listings for next year, the first title I came upon that caught my eye: VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch by Jon Baril (July 20, 2013, Fantagraphics). From the publisher: VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch is the first time Partch’s
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Naked Cartoonists; Raconteur #2; An Excerpt from Peter Steiner’s latest book
This coming October, Fantagraphics will publish Naked Cartoonists: Drawers Drawing Themselves Without Drawers. Gary Groth has edited the collection of self portraits that includes work by Lee Lorenz, George Booth, Eldon Dedini, Mike Twohy, Sam Gross, Gahan Wilson and Arnie Levin. Amazon offers a look inside the book, including a full list of contributors And available right now
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Ink Spill’s Chicago correspondent, Ken Krimstein reports that Gahan Wilson received an honorary doctorate this past weekend from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. That’s Gahan to the right in the above photo, with co-honoree, Eric Fischl. Ken filed this report : Interestingly, not only did Gahan graduate from there, so did his mother. He was fabulous
Read moreTribeca Film Festival to show Every Tuesday; Gahan Wilson teaches; Slightly more on The New Yorker Big Book of Dogs
From EW.com, April 16, 2012, “Tribeca Film Festival: New Yorker cartoonists in ‘Every Tuesday’” (with a brief clip of the film showing Zach Kanin at work) From Gear Live, April 14, 2012, “Gahan Wilson Teaches” From Library Journal, April 16, 2012, this trickle of information about the forthcoming New Yorker Big Book of Dogs (Random house, Fall 2012)
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