Raised By Squirrels

2010-03-02T20:52:00.008-07:00

Not much posting on, busy with preparations for our appearance this weekend at STAPLE! in Austin. Once again, we'll be representing 7000 BC with books from the group — and we'll be premiering the latest from Panel Press, the long-in-the-making New West. Find us at table 16 in the auditorium, a few spots down from our friend Rob Stikmanz.

Update: some nice words about our comics from Rob.

2010-02-22T20:33:00.005-07:00

Pulp finds today. This Flickr pool of pulp cover photos via Coudal via The Casual Optimist. And the work of Francesco Francavilla at Pulp Sunday via Kevin at the shop.

2010-02-17T21:52:00.005-07:00

Word from the printer today with good news about the long-awaited first issue of New West; details later, but, in the meantime, download the (slightly revised) preview.

2010-02-14T11:43:00.005-07:00

Unauthorized Valentine's present: the new Lulu Eightball collection by the awesome Emily Flake. Suppose I shoulda included the weekly strip in the top ten … I guess it's not technically a comic, that'll be my excuse.

2010-02-13T15:41:00.002-07:00

Watching the opening ceremony for the Olympics last night … OK, who's with us: wouldn't Donald Sutherland make an awesome Elijah Snow?

2010-02-11T20:16:00.003-07:00

Not much for New Year's resolutions, but for the past couple months I've been using TeuxDeux to help with the organization, especially the to-dos among locations.

2010-02-09T13:12:00.003-07:00

Local author, and keeper of Santa Fe Literary News, James McGrath Morris will be kicking off the book tour for his new biography of Joseph Pulitzer tonight at Collected Works, and we'll be there.

2010-02-04T18:45:00.002-07:00

Beagleman!

In other news from awesome, Molly's book just arrived, Monica's reading it now.

2010-02-02T21:42:00.006-07:00

From the time we first started following The Losers, it seemed like a movie waiting to happen — not that it seemed like a pitch/storyboard, like so many books now do. But it's on its way to becoming a movie; that poster and the trailer look pretty good, though it is lacking the graphic sensibility that Jock and Lee Loughridge brought that so helped define the feel of the book.

Time for a re-read.

2010-02-01T14:03:00.006-07:00

"I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it." The elusive Bill Watterson answers a few questions about Calvin and Hobbes. It's short, but it's a big deal to even get this much out of him. Via JWB.

2010-01-31T16:39:00.005-07:00

New string posted at 7000 BC — including, among other things, the latest installment of New West. We'll have another announcement about that shortly.

2010-01-28T20:04:00.012-07:00

Just so happens, the past week has been a flurry of activity with convention info and preparations. We're getting pretty well set for the year, and here's where we'll be representing 7000 BC:

STAPLE! in Austin, Texas on Saturday, March 6, 11:00-7:00
ComicFest in Denver, Colorado, April 16- April 18
Phoenix Comicon at the new venue at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, May 27-30 (Memorial Day weekend)
Bubonicon 42 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 27-29

7000 BC will be at the ABQ Collectors Con on Sunday, February 28 — we're going to have to miss that one, but the group will be there with all sorts of comics.

2010-01-28T09:01:00.001-07:00

Squirrel underpants. From McPhee, of course.

2010-01-27T19:15:00.004-07:00

Always a treat to see something from Molly Lawless, especially since it's so infrequent — though she's promising regular posting for a week. She's got another illustration from her graphic novel on Ray Chapman and Carl Mays (yeah, I had to go to Wikipedia, too). She did a mini a while back about baseball, and I'm just hoping to see this one soon.

2010-01-24T14:06:00.004-07:00

Sigh. There are very few times I miss Washington, but here's a good example: Darwyn Cooke speaking at the Smithsonian American Art Museum next Saturday. Again, sigh.

2010-01-20T19:48:00.002-07:00

Via Raph, who keeps track of ~~the weirdest~~ these things: Jack Kirby's costume designs for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Be sure to scroll to the bottom for a couple photos.

2010-01-19T20:01:00.001-07:00

Recent awesomeness from Hark A Vagrant, little comics here and here.

2010-01-18T15:10:00.008-07:00

A few little updates on the site here today:

The Mountain, Part 2, the latest installment of Raised By Squirrels, is posted over there to the left under "Download individual issues;"
if you're new to the site, you may not know Panel Press is the imprint for RBS and a few other projects — now you can click on the logo above to visit the Panel Press site and check out Death, Cold As Steel and The Darkness From Warsaw;
and if you're a retailer looking to order books, you now have two options: Tony Shenton and Haven Distributors.

2010-01-17T11:10:00.011-07:00

First heard about at the Temple of the Seven Golden Camels, a new book by Robert Edsel on the MFAA that I just picked up yesterday. The Monuments Men figure into the backstory of The Darkness From Warsaw and I've been mulling over a comic on them for a while, doing bits of research here and there. This'll either be great, 'cause it'll give me background I need — or a disaster, 'cause it'll be redundant now that he's told the good stories.

We have an earlier book by the author on the same subject, but more a collection of photos with essays. And, for our DC-area friends, it looks like he's speaking this afternoon. Like, in minutes.

2010-01-13T19:50:00.008-07:00

Noted unacceptably late as probably the Best Comic Book Cover of 2009 (possibly NSFW). Lauren's doing a wonderful autobiographical thing — and despite being female and in New York, oddly reminiscent of our friend, the wildly talented Sykryk.

2010-01-13T19:28:00.004-07:00

My Best Of was counted in I Love Rob Liefeld's Best Comics of 2009 Meta-List, an insightful (and labor-intensive) view of the hive mind's favorite books.

As noted, I've since picked up Asterios Polyp. And — d'oh — forgot about 1910 … but, well, it wasn't that good … I mean, by itself … it's a frustrating part of a whole. But probably should've gotten a mention.

2010-01-12T21:28:00.000-07:00

A denverpost.com column on science fiction features Robert Stikmanz and David Lee Summers, some of our friends from Bubonicon.

2010-01-11T22:19:00.003-07:00

Our friend and collaborator Jamie's got an interview about his comic MYX at Sequential Tart.

2010-01-10T18:36:00.000-07:00

Via Kevin at the shop, Jim Steranko's illustrated noir story, ca. 1976.

2010-01-09T18:27:00.006-07:00

Addenda to Top Ten of 2009 below (and here):

Been re- and re-reading Detective Comics Batwoman, loving it more. If there's a Favorite of the Best Of, that's probably it; and

Asterios Polyp has been topping other folks' lists. I had been intimidated, but just picked it up today …