• If you know where to look you can find quite a few t-shirts with images by Jim Siergey ("
Cultural Jet Lag") printed on them. 12 of them are
here.
• The January/February 2005 issue of
Utne Magazine features a six-page article by Chris Dodge titled “Up From Underground: Comic Book Artists to Watch Out For” profiling a number of cartoonists including: Lauren Weinstein (
Inside Vineyland), Leanne Franson (
Don’t Be a Crotte), Anders Nilsen (
Dogs and Water), Graham Annable (
Stickleback,
further Grickle), Jen Camper (
Juicy Mother), Robyn Chapman (
Hey, Four Eyes!,
True Porn), Sammy Harkham (
Kramers Ergot), Kevin Huizenga (
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase), Megan Kelso (
Scheherazade), Keith Knight (
Fear of a Black Marker), Josh Neufeld (
A Few Perfect Hours), John Porcellino (
Perfect Example), Jeffrey Brown (
Unlikely,
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase) and Sara Varon (
Sweaterweather). [
Thanks to Jeff Mason ]
• How about a little
holiday cheer from Howard Cruse?
• Jenny Nixon and Johnny Ryan have tied the knot. Here's Dave Cooper's
take on the whole thing.
• Check out these groovy
Bwana Spoons t-shirts at phinctees.com.
• According to Rich Johnston in this week's "
Lying in the Gutters", Nickelodeon will be publishing a comic-book adaptation of
Lemony Snickets' A Series Of Unfortunate Events by Sam Hiti (
End Times) with a back-up strip by Jay Stephens.
•
More on the recent US Customs seizure of
Stripburger from the
Charleston City Paper (South Carolina). [
Thanks to Newsarama ]
• Matti Hagelberg
comic in
The Stranger (Seattle)
• Jaime Hernandez is
cover-featured in this week's
LA CityBeat.
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• The
Austin Chronicle has published their 2004 comics-as-gifts
recommendations. The first two links at the bottom of the page lead to more indepth reviews.
• Hey,
here's a neat comic-book vending machine you might see if you find yourself in Vienna. [
Thanks to Stefan Neville via Comics Lifestyle ]
• Blecky Yuckerella issues
Party Commandments.
• Chris Pitzer and Zack Soto
talk about the
Project: Superior anthology over at Comic World News.
• Shawn Hoke braves the dizzying pages of Diamond's
Previews catalog
so you don't have to.
• Shipping in January from Dark Horse: the first issue (of six) of Peter Bagge's
Apocalypse Nerd as well as
Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #5 with Paul Grist, Jason Hall, Jeffrey Brown and others.
• New
online comics at the Top Shelf site.
• Did you catch the November 29th "Cartoon Issue" of
The New Yorker? Just look for the lovely R. Crumb cover.
• Fantagraphics' Gary Groth and Kim Thompson were recently interviewed by KOMO in Seattle. Listen to it
here.
• David Greenberger of
Duplex Planet fame has a new spoken-work CD out called
Legibly Speaking. Check it out
here.
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Quimby's Bookstore
8:00PM on December the 17th
Join the Holy Consumption for "Win, Lose or Draw"
The Holy Consumption consists of Jeffrey Brown (
Clumsy,
Unlikely,
Bighead), John Hankiewicz (
Tepid), Paul Hornschemeier (
Forlorn Funnies,
Sequential,
Mother Come Home) and Anders Nilsen (
Dogs and Water,
Big Questions).
The Holy Consumption will be marking its two-year anniversary with the second ever (simultaneous) appearance of its four members and with a game of "Win, Lose, or Draw". The Holy Consumption will play the now defunct television show with audience members, with Anders, Jeffrey, Paul, and John doing the drawing, and prizes going to the winning team. Afterwards the four creators will sign books.
Quimby's
The Holy Consumption
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From the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund:
On October 27, U.S. Customs sent a letter to Top Shelf Productions notifying them that copies of the anthology
Stripburger had been seized, charging that the stories "Richie Bush" by Peter Kuper and "Moj Stub" (translated, "My Pole") by Bojan Redzic constituted "clearly piratical copies" of registered and recorded copyrights. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has retained counsel to challenge these seizures.
"Richie Bush," appearing in
Stripburger (Vol. 12) #37, is a four-page parody of Richie Rich that also satirizes the Bush Administration by superimposing the personalities of the President's cabinet on the characters from the comic. "My Pole," appearing in
Stripburger (Vol. 3) # 4-5, which was published in 1994, is an eight-page ecology parable in Slovenian that makes visual homage to Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and Woodstock in three panels. Customs seized five copies of the issue with the "Peanuts" reference and fourteen copies of the issue containing "Richie Bush." The stories were both published in the middle of their respective issues and no graphics from either story appeared on the covers.
Top Shelf is the American agent for Stripburger, an Eastern European comics publisher that releases anthologies of comics from cartoonists around the globe. The comics that were seized were sent along as an extra in a shipment of
The Miniburger Dirty Dozen, a boxed set of mini comics that Top Shelf imported to offer in the Direct Market and at conventions. Top Shelf did not order the seized issues of the anthology.
Upon investigating the shipment, Customs released the copies of
Miniburger, but held the issues of
Stripburger, giving Top Shelf thirty days to either forfeit the shipment, request administrative relief, or initiate court action.
At the urging of
Stripburger, Top Shelf and CBLDF President Chris Staros brought the case to the attention of the Fund as a potential news story. CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein felt the matter warranted serious legal attention, so it was sent to Burton Joseph, the Fund's legal counsel, whose opinion was that Customs was unlawfully holding First Amendment protected speech. The option of pursuing court action on First Amendment grounds was then taken to the CBLDF Board of Directors, which unanimously voted 8-0 to take up the case; Chris Staros recused himself from the vote.
On November 24, the Fund retained counsel in Charleston, SC who hand-delivered a letter to Customs stating that the comics are protected under existing First Amendment case law and should be either immediately released or that court action should be initiated.
"In this case, it looks like Customs is overreaching its authority," Staros says. "The comics in question are clearly within the acceptable bounds of parody, and there is absolutely no likelihood that consumers would confuse these works with the subjects that they are parodying."
Brownstein stated, "The stories that were seized are short segments within larger anthologies that in no way represented the content as anything other than what it is. The charge that these are piratical copies of existing copyrights is not only wrong-headed, but the seizure amounts to an unlawful prior restraint of protected speech. It is our hope that Customs will recognize that they have acted in error in seizing these stories and release them immediately. If not, we are prepared to go to court to protect the First Amendment rights that are endangered by this misguided action."
CBLDF
Stripburger
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