New Library Comics: January 2010

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection in January :


Flix. Der Swimmingpool des kleinen Mannes / Hamburg : Carlsen, 2009

Flix. Für dich - du bist süss : Cartoons von Flix / Hamburg : Carlsen, 2006.

Flix. Heldentage / Hamburg : Carlsen, c2007.

Flix. Mädchen / Hamburg : Carlsen, c2006.

Flix. Tut mir leid, aber Weihnachten fällt aus / Hamburg : Carlsen, c2009.

Flix. Verflixt! : Cartoons ; [und jetzt?] / Hamburg : Carlsen, c2005.

Flix. Verliebt! : das Glücksbuch / Hamburg : Carlsen, c2009.

Haque, Mohammad F. Applegeeks bk. 2. Weird science / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2009.

Kawachi, Izumi. Enchanter v. 2 / Gardena, CA : Digital Manga Pub., 2006-

Mariotte, Jeff. Barack Obama : The first 100 days. / San Diego, CA : IDW Pub., 2009.

Martell, Nevin. Looking for Calvin and Hobbes : the unconventional story of Bill Watterson and his revolutionary comic strip / New York ; London : Continuum, 2009.

Mihara, Mitsukazu, 1970- Shigeshōshi vols. 1-7 / Tokyō : Shōdensha, 2003-

Watase, Yuu. Ayashi no seresu vols. 1-10 / Tōkyō : Shōgakkan, 1997-2000.

Yuki, Kaori. Tenshi kinryō-ku vols. 1-15 / Tōkyō : Hakusensha, 1995-2001

Facing It

Bizarro is brought to you today by camouflage.

One of my father's-in-law and I were driving through Florida recently, saying things with our mouths and we came across this idea of having your eye teeth dilated. So I made a comic about it. I'm blessed with funny in-laws all around, so it's fun to visit CHNW's family.

I'm happy with the character who is speaking in this cartoon because he actually looks like he's thinking about the way his food tastes. Achieving the proper facial expression is important to me and is something that comes from experience. It's a difficult and subtle art, moving an eyelid up or down, or a mouth a fraction one way or another can completely change the character's expression. You just have to do it enough to develop an intuition about it.

Somebody who has tons of great opinions about character design is John K, the dude who did Ren and Stimpy. I spend lots of time on his blog, just because it's fascinating. No modern animator that I know of has John's amazing level of expertise and talent. I often wish I'd worked for him when I was young instead of getting into newspaper comics. But I've had a good run and have no complaints.

KOMEDY WITH A K

One more mention of the awesome comedy show I'm MCing in NYC this week. If you're in the area and you like funny things, this is the deal you want to see. All of our comics are headliners, you'll never see this many bigtime TV comics on the same stage again without having to wear a tuxedo. And ALL the money goes to rescued critters!

Dave Attel
Louis C.K.
Wyatt Cenac from The Daily Show
Lizz Winstead creator of The Daily Show
Gary Gulman
and ME.

Tickets, info, and more laughing pig pictures: http://woodstockfas.org/events.shtml