The Cross Hatch Dispatch 11.11.09

[Above, Isabel Rucker unfurls. Below, rollin' up the Dispatch.]

• Isabel Rucker’s epic 400-foot comic scroll, Unfurling, is currently on display at the SoMARTS Gallery in San Francisco. It’s so long. (That’s what we said.)
• Vanessa Davis gets into Crumb’s Genesis with her most recent memoir on Tablet.
• Following the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, Antony Johnston announced his Cold War-era graphic novel from Oni Press, Cold City. Of course we all know that communism was just a red herring.
• Mark Evanier reminisces on Shel Dorf, founder of the San Diego Comic Con, who passed away last week.
• Alan Moore mentioned working on an opera with Gorillaz madmen, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. In exchange they plan on curating a few pages in his magazine, Dodgem Logic.
• Solipstic Pop, an alternative comics anthology featuring UK talent, was released to the public over the weekend at London’s Comica Comiket. Uh, I think that’s British for “convention.”
• Check out this giant hunk o’ preview of Marian Churchland’s Beast, out today from Image.
• Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan is hosting it’s own Zombie Art Exhibit until New Year’s Eve, featuring art from Vince Lock, Windy Weber, Sean Bieri, and Bryan Durren. Do zombies dream of green brains?

-Miles VanMeter