Kyle Baker does Hawkman

Apparently Kyle Baker is writing and drawing a Hawkman project for DC (the previous announcement of which I sadly missed.).

Baker is both writing and drawing, and has posted three pages of art on his blog, including a scene of Hawkman fighting a giant crab monster on the wing of an airplane.

This, my friends, promises to be seven kinds of awesome.

(link via Heidi)

New Library Comics: Month of December 2008

I realized this morning that I never posted the list of comics received by the library in December. So here they are! (January's list will appear tomorrow)


Andru, Ross. Get lost : the comic designed to send you! / New Castle, Pa. : Hermes, c2008.

An anthology of graphic fiction, cartoons, & true stories vol. 2 / New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006

Barba, Corey. Yam : bite-size chunks / Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf, 2008.

Beaty, Nate. BFF : brainfag forever / Bloomington, Ind. : Microcosm Publishing, 2008.

Bell, Blake. Strange and stranger : the world of Steve Ditko / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics, 2008.

Bellamy, Frank, 1917-1976. Robin Hood : the complete adventures / London : Book Palace Books, c2008.

Blurred vision 4 : new narrative art. New York : Blurred Books, c2008.

Campbell, Ross, 1979- Water Baby / New York : Minx, c2008.

Claytor, Ryan. And then one day / San Diego, CA : Elephant Eater Comics, 2004-

Comic book tattoo : narrative art inspired by the lyrics and music of Tori Amos / Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2008.

Fat chunk. vol. 1 : robot / San Jose, Calif. : Slave Labor Graphics, 2008.

Fish, Andy. The tragic tale of turkey boy : an American love story / Boston ; Shreveport [La.] ; Singapore : Undercoverfish, c2007.

Flight vol. 5 / Orange, CA : Image Comics, c2004-

Gaiman, Neil. The absolute sandman vol. 3 / New York : DC Comics, 2006-

Goddin, Philippe. The art of Hergé, inventor of Tintin v. 1. 1907-1937 / San Francisco, Ca. : Last Gasp, c2008-

Hanakuma, Yusaku. Tokyo Zombie / San Francisco, Calif. : Last Gasp, 2008.

Hanks, Fletcher, b. 1879. I shall destroy all the civilized planets! / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2007.

Hayashi, Seiichi, 1945- Red colored elegy / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2008.

Henderson, Sam. Magic whistle no. 11. Body armor for your dignity / Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, 1998-

Hiramoto, Akira. Me and the devil blues : the unreal life of Robert Johnson vol. 1 / New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2008-

Jason, 1965- Pocket full of rain and other stories / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, c2008.

Jeff Smith: Bone and beyond / Columbus, Ohio : Wexner Center for the Arts, 2008.

Kellerman, Martin, 1973- Rocky. v. 1. The big payback / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, c2005.

Larcenet, Manu. Ordinary victories vol. 2 / New York : NBM ComicsLit, c2005.

Larson, Hope. Chiggers / New York [N.Y.] : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2008.

Léo, 1944- Aldebaran v. 1. 1. The catastrophe; 2. The blonde / Ashford : Cinebook, 2008-

Malki, Daṿid, 1899- Beards of our forefathers : a collection of comic-strips / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2008.

Mantella, Mauro. 78 km/h / Buenos Aires [Argentina] : Gárgola ediciones, 2007.

McCloud, Scott, 1960- Zot! : the complete black-and-white collection, 1987-1991 / New York : HarperCollins, 2008.

Meathaüs : S.O.S. / Toluca Lake, Calif. : Nerdcore, c2008.

Montellier, Chantal. Franz Kafka's The trial : a graphic novel / New York : Sterling, c2008.

Mori, Kaoru. Shirley vol. 1 / La Jolla, CA : WildStorm/CMX, 2008.

Out of picture : art from the outside looking in. vol. 2 / New York : Villard, 2007-c2008.

Panter, Gary. Cola Madnes / New York : Funny Garbage Press, 200

Popgun vol. 2 / Berkeley, Calif. : Image Comics, 2007-

Robinson, Alex, 1969- Too cool to be forgotten / Marietta, GA : Top Shelf, 2008.

Rosendahl, Peter J. Han Ola og han Per : a Norwegian-American comic strip = en norsk-amerikansk tegneserie / Oslo : Universitetsforlaget ; Northfield, Minn. : The Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1984.

Scrambled ink : an animated collection of stories. Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2008.

Sheyahshe, Michael A., 1975- Native Americans in comic books : a critical study / Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.

Snakepit, Ben. Snake pit 2007 / Bloomington, IN : Microcosm Pub., 2008.

Spain, (Cartoonist) Che : a graphic biography / London ; New York : Verso, 2008.

Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- InuYasha vol. 34 / San Francisco, CA : Viz, LLC, c2003

Tanaka, Masashi, 1962- Gon vol. 5 / La Jolla, CA : WildStorm Productions, c2007-

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935- Good-bye / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 200

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Dororo vol. 2 / New York : Vertical, c2008-

Toriyama, Akira, 1955- COWA! / San Francisco, Calif. : Viz, 2008.

Trillo, Carlos. Boy vampiro nos. 1-7 / Buenos Aires : Meridiana Comics, 1997-

Weinstein, Lauren R. The goddess of war vol. 1 / Brooklyn, NY : Picturebox, 2008-

Wheeler, Shannon. Postage stamp funnies / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Comics, 2008-

Wood, Brian. The New York Four / New York : Minx, 2008.

Youme. Pitch black / El Paso, TX : Cinco Puntos Press, c2008.




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Pet Pigs and Peeves

Bizarro is brought to you today by Reptilian Lottery Winners.

The stem cell of this cartoon came from another occasional collaborator and dear, dear friend, Richard "Dick" Cabeza. I forgot what his original picture and caption were, but they were similar and I tweaked them into this delectable dealybobber.

This idea appeals to me because it was fun to render the pigs in disguises as they prepare to wreak havoc, but also because of my interest in animal rights, although that by itself would not have been enough to get me to bite on this gag. (so to speak)

Entirely off the subject of this cartoon, "wreak havoc" is one of the most frequently mispronounced terms in modern English. It seems people almost invariably say "wreck" havoc. I can understand the confusion, since "havoc" is often the result of "wrecking," but that isn't the correct phrase. Since ours is a living language (thank god, speaking a dead language is just creepy) it is only a matter of time before "wrecking havoc" will be considered correct. Which, as grammar catastrophes go, isn't such a bad thing. At least it basically means the same thing.

What's much worse is the changing of the term "couldn't care less." The overwhelming majority of Americans say "could care less" when, in fact, they mean "couldn't." This change is regrettable, because it means the opposite of what the speaker intends. Here's how:
If you care about something or someone, like, say, your grandmother or smoking pot, you "could" care less. That is to say, if you care, it is possible to care less.

If you care nothing about something or someone, you could not care less than you already do. Hence, you couldn't care less whether Dick Cheney ever gets out of jail. Just remember: when you're tempted to use this phrase in the common way, use "couldn't".

If that still doesn't make sense, perhaps you could care less about smoking pot, and probably should.