Archive for September, 2008
SPX isn’t so far away. In fact, it’s coming up this weekend. However, it’s an out-of-the-way affair for most of its participants - so I asked the artists, “How are you getting to SPX?” You can expect to read their responses here daily on the Cross Hatch until the big day arrives.
Today’s [...]
Filed under: Guest Strip | 1 Comment
Tags: Liz Baillie, road trip, spx
“I feel like we do have a good comic community here,” answers the bearded, wire-rimmed cashier in the airbrushed tiger shirt. “There are a lot of artists. It’s kind of weird how it all comes together in Chicago.” Logan Bay is in good company, at the moment, seated behind Quimby’s front desk, flanked from [...]
Filed under: Features, Interviews | 3 Comments
Tags: Quimby's, Chicago, Chris Ware, Dan Clowes
Guest Strip: Mei K
SPX isn’t so far away. In fact, it’s coming up this weekend. However, it’s an out-of-the-way affair for most of its participants - so I asked the artists, “How are you getting to SPX?” You can expect to read their responses here daily on the Cross Hatch until the big day arrives.
Today’s [...]
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Tags: mei k, spx
20th Anniversary of FallCon
This weekend marks the 20th Anniversary of the Twin Cities’ premiere comic book convention FallCon! What began in 1989 as a small hotel convention has fully blossomed into a stalwart chunk of the Midwest’s comic culture. I’ve known people to come in from as far as Iowa just to visit. Iowa, I [...]
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Tags: comic conventions, fallcon, minnesota fairgrounds, st paul
Nurse Nurse #1-2 by Katie Skelly
Nurse Nurse #1-2
by Katie Skelly
Calico Comics
Current global tensions heightened by the human population crisis, the Ug99 epidemic, and Pixar’s latest creation WALL-E (arguably) set a suitable backdrop for Katie Skelly’s lovely yet eerie futuristic comic series Nurse Nurse.
The year is 3030 and Earth has already met its maximum capacity. Humans are migrating to the [...]
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Tags: mini-comics, katie skelly, nurse nurse, nurses, dystopian, butterflies
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less #2: The Golan Heights
By Sarah Glidden
Self-Published
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less follows Sarah Glidden’s trip to Israel on Birthright, with the recently published chapter two taking her into the Golan Heights, or, as the artist proclaims in the book, “disputed territory proper!” [...]
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Tags: How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, Sarah Glidden
This year, at the third annual Brooklyn Book Fair, we had the opportunity to sit down—or, rather, stand up—with two highly regarded representatives on their respective, and sometimes overlapping, fields, for a panel entitled ‘Cartooning Today.’
Kyle Baker is no doubt familiar to most Cross Hatch readers and the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award winning author [...]
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Tags: Bugs Bunny, Cartoon Network, Disney, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Kyle Baker, Mo Willems, Nat Turner, Plastic Man, Sesame Street, The Bakers, Warner Bros.
[Art by Frank Cammuso]
Before his reinventing himself as a children’s book author through Toon Book properties like Otto’s Orange Day with Frank Cammuso and the Dean Haspiel collaboration, Mo and Jo Fighting Together Forever, Jay Lynch was a driving force in the Chicago’s underground comics movement of the early-70s, publishing Bijou Funnies, which brought the [...]
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Tags: Art Spiegelman, Bijou Funnines, Dean Haspiel, Francoise Mouly, Garbage Pail Kids, Jay Lynch, Mineshaft, Robert Crumb, Toon Books
Last weekend I moderated a panel in the sweltering heat of the third annual Brooklyn Book Festival. The guests were both well-regarded representatives in their chosen fields, if somewhat polarization in terms of output, but with enough overlap that they both effectively represented the fairly abstract panel title, “Cartooning Today.”
Kyle Baker is best known around [...]
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The Portable Frank
By Jim Woodring
Fantagraphics
Seeing Things, the title of Jim Woodring’s 2005 collection of charcoal drawings was intended as more than a simple descriptor of the artist’s surrealist mode of expression. For most of his life, Woodring has suffered from hallucinations, a fact that he’s discussed openly and often in interviews, over the years. For [...]
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Tags: Fantagraphics, Jim Woodring, The Portable Frank, Frank
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