There's this guy named Ted Rall who just came out with a book I've been hearing great things about: The Year of Loving Dangerously.
And there's this other guy, goes by the name of Tom Tomorrow, who has a new children's book out that's getting quite the buzz: The Very Silly Mayor. Dave Barry and Lemony Snicket liked it a lot.
They seem like interesting fellows.
After the publication of the comic of a few weeks ago, "Hollingsworth Hound in 'To Catch a Banker,'" a bunch of commenters wondered where HH's nemesis Lucky Ducky was. Some said that this was the first time Hollingsworth appeared on his own, without his fowl enemy.
In this week's episode, dirty pictures and a curse word.
You've been warned.
Have you ever had the pleasure of taking a cross-continental red-eye flight sitting next to a guy who is absolutely drunk? I'm talking fall-down, stumble-around, Port-Authority-wino drunk. He came on to the plane trashed, and then ordered two or three scotches the first time the beverage cart came through — I'm not sure exactly how many because I was trying hard not to look at him, lest he interpret a glance as an opening to converse.
More evidence for the Tom the Dancing Bug theory on the death of Hitler?
American researchers claim to have demonstrated that the skull fragment, secretly preserved for decades by Soviet intelligence, belonged to a woman under 40, whose identity is unknown. DNA analyses performed on the bone, now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow, have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut. The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, Hitler's Escape, astonished scientists.
Hollingsworth Hound in "To Catch a Banker".
A couple of other notes about things of note at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art :
Tomorrow!! The Art of (my hero) Harvey Kurtzman: The MAD Genius of Comics.
And now showing at the gallery (joining the David Mazzucchelli show), art from Peter Kuper's new book, Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico.
Jacob Haller comments on the Facebook page: "It's nice of you to take the time to promote less popular comic book authors like Watterson."
Bill Watterson is not only one of the greatest cartoonists who ever lived, he is one of the most popular and successful creators of popular art of the 20th century. Yet because he is extremely private, and he has refused all merchandising/licensing exploitations of the strip, he is almost totally out of the public eye (except for his obsessively updated tweets — Okay, Bill, you don't like the new, "improved" Frosted Shredded Wheat! We get it!). So this is a great and rare opportunity to hear from someone who has studied the man and his art.
And Bill, if you're reading this, and you'd like to come by and join the conversation, please know you'll be welcome. I can promise you a free donut, and rest assured that MoCCA has and always will be a bootleg-Calvin-peeing-merchandise-free facility.
The deets:
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, 7 p.m.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401
(btwn. Houston and Prince)
New York, NY 10012
Tel. 212-254-3511
check back and confirm event at: http://moccany.com/
Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members