Friday Round-Up
June 6th, 2008 | Published in Comics, Miscellany, Web Stuff
- First and most importantly, this weekend is the annual MoCCA Art Festival here in New York. For comics fans who don’t really have an interest in superheroes and the Marvel/DC stuff, MoCCA (the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) is where it’s at. It’s mostly indie and “literary” stuff, and lots of creators will be there to promote and sign their books. I’ll be pestering Bryan Lee O’Malley for a signed postcard and picking up a copy of Chiggers, the new graphic novel by Hope Larson. (Check out a preview here - I love Hope’s art style.) I also plan to grab Alex Robinson’s Too Cool to Be Forgotten, about a middle-aged man whose stop-smoking hypnosis treatments time-warp him back to high school in 1985. (Preview here.)
- The MoCCA weekend kicks off tonight at Rocketship with the world premiere party for Pocket Full of Rain, an early-works compilation from Norwegian comics genius Jason (I Killed Adolph Hitler, The Last Musketeer, and lots more). The man is a master of the form - Musketeer is a personal favorite of mine - and since he generally makes 48-page books, I can’t wait to dig into a nice 180-plus-page collection. For a gratis look at Jason’s stuff, check out Low Moon, a serialized comic that’s been running in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
- Holy crap, it’s a sunset on Mars! Speaking of, I’m having fun following the Mars Phoenix Lander on Twitter.
- The new Al Green album, Lay It Down, is phenomenal. It sounds like it could have been recorded in 1973. Check out the MySpace promo page for samples.
- Oh, if your most profound wish is to watch ShowBiz Pizza robots perform Usher’s “Love In This Club”, consider that shit granted: