Category: Delicious

An excerpt from Al Jaffee & Michael Kupperman’s Conversation in The Comics Journal #301.

On his signature Fold-ins: “I never see it folded until it’s printed.”

Chicago Tribune profile of cartoonist Ivan Brunetti.

“Ivan has a masterpiece in him; it’s just getting him to do it.”

Chip Kidd, art director at the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, says, “I think Ivan’s been following a reductive path, trying to see how much he can pull out of a character and still have it read emotionally. It takes Ivan like one or two brush marks now to do it, like Charles Schulz. Which is hard.”

Brunetti’s one-page artist biographies, structured within panels echoing the artists’ work are the best thing ever. Several appear in Schizo #4 – there’s a tiny image of the Mondrian strip here.

“Turn The Camera Around” – Scott Allen’s video profile of photographer Doug Coombe.

Coombe has been tirelessly documenting all angles of the Detroit music scene for years, and this is a great look at where he’s coming from.

The Batman Complex Theatrical Trailer.

Batman nerd plus movie nerd plus amazingly well-thought-out editing together of disparate clips of unrelated movies = best thing of the day / week.

8,000 bottle cap mosaic of “Starry Night.”

Really nicely done. My attempt at a bottle cap mosaic is here.

Patrick Pentland of Sloan on Kurt Cobain and the oddities of sharing a label with Nirvana in the 90’s.

He confirms the story that the lyrics to “Penpals” were cobbled together from Nirvana fan letters, but they got them while visiting Sub Pop, not DGC.

Comics Alliance has process sketches from the forthcoming Strange Tales II hardcover..

Great collection of the rough sketches created as indie cartoonists interpret the Marvel Universe. Kate Beaton and Ivan Brunetti roughs!

Serialized ASCII pixel-art portraits on Twitter.

I recently stumbled into the world of these twitter art accounts – this is my favorite so far (You need to be logged into Twitter for them to align properly in the web interface). Pretty soon I’ll need a separate account just to aggregate these art posts…

Postal Experiment: What happens when you mail two envelopes full of crackers to yourself – one marked “Fragile,” the other marked “Handle Carelessly?”

Answer here. Personal postal experiment regrets: I never did try affixing postage to a Taco Bell Chicken Quesadilla envelope. Perhaps soon.

John Darnielle of Mountain Goats auctions a one-of-a-kind song for Japanese Earthquake Relief.

The auction is for an old demo that was recorded directly onto a cassette – Darnielle says he won’t make a copy before sending. I love the concept of that singular performance as a unique artifact – a weird echo of the early days of the record business, when performers would sing the same song over and over again for each individual copy.