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Books Now Available: Radio Wire and John Wilcock, Book One
January 2016 -
BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE
John Wilcock, New York Years
90 page full color collection of the first five years of comic strips. A limited run of these will be made available. Get a copy here.
RADIO WIRE: Book One
Collecting the first three issues of Radio Wire into a nice compact set. Looks great. Similar to the Wilcock collection, these will be limited in run. Pick up a copy at this link.
AMERICAN BYSTANDER - Issue One
(and issue two! -- and three!)
Our friends at the American Bystander, which includes writers from National Lampoon, Spy, and The Simpsons, have launched a new quarterly. Issue one contains a cover by Scott Marshall and me, and has eight pages of John Wilcock comics. Pick up a copy here. They've launched a Kickstarter for issue two, as well - More information here.
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Chapter Eight of JOHN WILCOCK Now Being Serialized on Boing Boing
New Issues of Comics with Problems:
Announcement:
THE REALIST CARTOONS
(In stores April 2016 from Fantagraphics)
Happy to announce this deluxe collection of comics from The Realist
For the last six months or so I've been rescanning hundreds of pages from The Realist Archive for a collection of the best comics from the magazine. Fantagraphics will be publishing a deluxe multi-color volume, covering the full run of strips(1958-2001). Here's the blurb from Amazon:
The Realist Cartoons (Hardcover)
April 3, 2016
by Art Spiegelman (Author), R. Crumb (Author), Trina Robbins (Author), Jay Lynch (Author), Nicole Hollander (Author), Paul Krassner (Editor), Ethan Persoff (Editor), Gary Groth (Editor)
A collection of the comics Time magazine called the Charlie Hebdo of the 1960s.
The Realist was a legendary satirical periodical that ran from 1958 to 2001 and published some of the most incendiary cartoons that ever appeared in an American magazine. The Realist Cartoons collects, for the first time, the best, the wittiest, and the most provocative drawings that appeared in its pages, including work by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Trina Robbins, Mort Gerberg, Jay Kinney, Richard Guindon, Nicole Hollander, Skip Williamson, and many others. Two color illustrations throughout.
It really feels terrific to have work on the Realist Archive now result in a book collecting these comics. (Especially the Richard Guindon material.) More about this project as it gets closer to a publishing date. I've seen a few sample pages and it's really an exciting presentation. Pre-order one, why don't ya.
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Two Recent Press Reviews:
Saw this review recently for The Pogostick in The Sunday Guardian, and thought it'd be fun to post here - Ethan
The Pogostick is a Cult Classic Despite an Unresolved Cliff-Hanger
The Sunday Guardian | BOOK BEAT
July 5, 2015 (Page 26)
Fantagraphics Books
Writer: Al Columbia
Artist: Ethan Persoff
Freudian metaphors and sequences are powerful tools in the hands of contemporary writers. In novels like Portnoy's Complaint we have seen how they can bring out the neurosis of a character in an unusually accurate way; the literal phrase "dream logic" is quite literal in these cases. The graphic novel medium gives artists the license to go a step further and directly include situations that Freud discussed in Interpretation of Dreams. In Al Columbia and Ethan Persoff's The Pogostick, we see the protagonist, a melancholy little man called Audrey Grinfield (the irony of the name becomes obvious fairly early on, when we see that Audrey isn't likely to break into a grin anytime soon) who does what can only be described as grunt work at a design firm that specializes in "nuts, screws, washers, bolts and rivets."
We are told that about a year ago, Grinfield had to choose a night shift at his firm due to a brain freeze moment where he walked through the office with his penis exposed, not realizing that he forgot to zip up his pants in the toilet. This, then, forms the crux of The Pogostick: It is the nucleus of Grinfield's mousy, clean-freak, deeply insecure behavior tics. The sequence, aided by Persoff's cartoonish grotesque art, becomes a Freudian therapy session by proxy. Grinfield undergoes what Freud calls "The Embarrassment-Dream of Nakedness", only in real life.
Freud writes, in the Interpretation of Dreams: "The dreamer's embarrassment and the spectator's indifference constitute a contradiction such as often occur in dreams. It would be more in keeping with the dreamer's feelings if the strangers were to look at him in astonishment, or were to laugh at him, or be outraged. I think, however, that this obnoxious feature has been displaced by wish-fulfillment, while the embarrassment is for some reason retained, so that the two components are not in agreement."
Hence, when Columbia tells us "He walked through all of Moggs before he noticed his mistake", he is suggesting that because of Grinfield's already fragile mental health, he experienced the early part of his episode in a dream-like state, where his "wish-fulfillment" part of his brain switched off a reality that hit home later, with devastating consequences: people were looking and some of them were disgusted enough to lodge a complaint.
Columbia is better known for his artwork (The Biologic Show, Pim and Francie) but here, his writing is in near peak form, perhaps from the reduced workload. The Pogostick was cancelled (abandoned/halted) after two issues, leaving the series on a bit of a cliff-hanger. The slight blemish aside, it is a compelling read, one that might even cause you to re-evaluate your priorities in life.
— The Sunday Guardian | July 5, 2015, Page 26
Thanks for the gratifying review.
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Another item worth sharing - Never heard the term "Applied Comics" for educational comics - but I like it.
Review: "Comics with Problems"
Source: Applied Comics Network
I’ve recently been directed to Ethan Persoff’s fantastic archive of weird and off-the-wall informational comics, or Comics With Problems, as he puts it.
These are applied comics definitely from the weirder end of the spectrum: from government-sponsored oddities (Military Courtesy – a comic book all about how to salute properly), and classics (Will Eisner’s Treat Your Rifle Like a Lady), to well-known characters in public service publications (Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids in anti-drug Buzzy’s Rebound) or slightly obscure educational comics (Learn Cherokee with Blondie and Dagwood); to curiosities like a 1987 AIDS awareness comic sponsored by Madonna (Who’s That Girl?) and unusual mascots such as Pip, the Magic Safety Elephant (The Perils of PIP – Preventing Poisoning); all the way to the outer fringes of weirdness (Capn Veedee-O and Ms.Wanda Lust in VD Claptrap, or Daffy Qaddafi: A Dictator’s Nightmare in Wonderland, or Don’t Bruise that Pig), hysteria (America Under Socialism, and The Two Faces of Communism), and offensiveness (the pro-segregation comic George Wallace for the Big Job, or the bile-filled Homosexuality: Legitimate Alternative DEATHSTYLE).
Stranger danger, anti-fluoridation, temper tantrums, body odour, Mickey Mouse selling speed, family stress, Foreskin Man, heroin abuse, landmine awareness, the Phantom running for city council, group poop, dancing condoms – and Sam the Disaster Horse talking about terrorism awareness. Hats off to Ethan Persoff: this is a crazy archive of crazy comics. Explore at your leisure – and enjoy. If nothing else, perhaps learn some lessons about how not to make applied comics.
— Applied Comics Network | July 10, 2015 (online)
Thanks for the nice comments about the site.
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