VHS in the NYT and QUADEAD @ MAD Museum
Today in the New York Times Arts and Leisure section you will find a little article about the VHS Series at the Museum of Arts and Design. I know you all already know about it, but that’s because you are hip and you follow the Daily Planet… or maybe because I won’t shut up about it. Hey [...]
The Randomness on a Holiday Season Saturday
It’s a Saturday in December and we’re in full gear Holiday Season drive here at FPNYC. From my favorite Christmas movie- Die Hard. Man, do I wish one of our suppliers and/or colleagues made a high-quality repro of that shirt (I’m looking at you, founditemclothing.com ). Can’t think of that perfect gift for the comics-savvy [...]
NYT: The Pekar Legacy
A terrific piece on Harvey Pekar, focusing mostly on the author’s legacy and his future in print, graced the cover of today’s Arts & Leisure section of The New York Times… Known for the irascible, self-doubting persona he cultivated in American Splendor and his day-to-day existence, the frizzy-haired, wild-eyed Mr. Pekar, a writer whose comics [...]
Archie in the NYT, Flight from the Jersey Shore
“Well, I’m back.” -Sam Gamgee I just spent a day on the Jersey shore with some family, and my return trip to Astoria, Queens is a four hour saga that will live in infamy in my memory for a long time to come. But I won’t use this space to describe the horrors of the [...]
Graphic Novels as Gifts: NY Times & Doctorow
The Times has published an article with recommendations of gifty graphic novels for the 2009 holiday season. I’ll have my own in the next few days, but theirs is an eclectic bag and includes many obvious choices (Scott Pilgrim, Fables, Gaiman books). One notable entry surprised me (in as much as I wouldn’t normally expect [...]
Oh, BTW… Basil Wolverton Exhibition @ The Gladstone Gallery NYC
In case you missed the write-up it got in the in the Times last weekend (“The van Gogh of the Gross-Out“) or were otherwise unaware, there’s a pretty swell exhibit of Basil Wolverton’s art running at The Gladstone Gallery here in NYC. The Wolverton Bible from Fantagraphics The Wolverton material best suited to a general [...]