An alternative to Crumb?
The Confessions of Robert Crumb (BBC, 1987)
Forget that No Doubt video ever existed, watch world champ hoop dancer Nakotah Larance in Geronimo (The Knocks and Fred Falke). Then read Adrienne K. talk about Nelly Furtado’s Big Hoops over at Native Appropriations, which is a really good blog.
Katie and I are coming to England, you guys! We are excited to meet all of you!
Here is where you will find me:
- Nov 8th - Great Showdowns book signing with Olly Moss , 6-7pm @ Forbidden Planet, London
- Nov 17-18 - Thought Bubble Comic Festival @ Saviles and Royal Armouries Halls, Leeds
I will have all kinds of books and prints for sale! A full list of what i will bring can be found HERE!
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The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of the Wars of the Roses consisting of Shakespeare’s Henry VI (3 parts) and Richard III, edited, rearranged and rewritten by John Barton and Peter Hall.
First broadcast on BBC TV in 1965 in 3 parts. Subsequently rebroadcast in the 1980s in 11 Parts.
I was in New York for the Hurricane Sandy, with Scott. I drew sketches of it as we went through. If you click on the picture you’ll see them all in a long image.
It is HERE!!
The Great Showdowns
book!
With a foreword by Neil Patrick Harris
and introduction by Scott C. (who is me)
Over 150 Showdowns from the Great Showdowns series. You can get it at your local bookstore or anywhere online!! Go get it right now! SPREAD THE WORD!!
More amazing details can be found on my blog right HERE!!!
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Witch fancy dress, 1887 England, Fancy Dresses Described by Ardern Holt
(See Hubbard, Mother; Macbeth, and Coloured Illustration, Plate XV.) Short quilted skirt of red satin, with cats and lizards in black velvet; gold satin panier tunic; black velvet bodice laced over an old-gold crêpe bodice; small cat on right shoulder, a broom in the hand, with owl; tall pointed velvet cap; shoes with buckles.
Happy (actual) Halloween! If you missed the quiz update!
From Topatoco:
A limited specialty item – we have only 500 copies to be sold. This is a collection of scans from Kate’s sketchbooks, some are doodles, some are research, you know how it goes with sketchbooks. We’re keeping the run small to make this a special thing, for fans who want something a little different and personal.
HALLOWEEN QUIZ
1. How can you tell if the unknown party guest is the Devil?
- He has cloven feet
- He turned the television on to MTV (grandma was right!)
- He’s all like “hey baby, I’m burnin’ up here cause you’re so hot and I’m Satan”
- He’s checking out your copy of the Malleus Maleficarum all casual like it’s not weird
2. Who was Jack the Ripper, really?
- The Earl of Toffee, heir to Her Majesty’s cabbages
- Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the lead pipe
- Moriarty, damn his eyes! He’s the Napoleon of crime!
- El Chupacabra
3. How can I tell thou art a witch?
- For thou hast cavorted with Satan in a sexy way
- Because I could really use thy farmland if thou happened to be a witch
- For the milk has gone sour and I understand science not
- For thou won’t consent to a simple drowning test, the premise “offends thy good sense”
4. Before Jack o’ Lanterns, Celtic cultures used:
- The carved heads of your enemies
- Bog sacrifice of your enemies
- Oatmeal in the shape of a face (of your enemies)
- Jack o’ turnips
5. Which Malevolent Old Woman Spirit from Japan is the scariest?
- Cackling old woman
- Old woman bleeding from the eyes
- Floating head of weeping old woman
- Old woman inquiring about your marital status
6. What is the only thing that can kill a werewolf?
- Silver bulletin
- Strychnine
- Rock n’ roll
- Pile driver
7. Should we pick up this spectral hitchhiker?
- Only if he will share his weed
- No way, they’re jerks! You give them a ride and then they vanish without saying thanks
- Only if they’re doing that thing where you stick your leg out
- I don’t trust those spectral hitchhikers, they’re all the same, but I’m not racist or anything
8. Trick or:
- Treacle
- Train
- Tits
- El Chupacabra
9. If you say “Bloody Mary” three times, what will you see in the mirror?
- The Virgin Mary (this answer is blasphemous, circle only if you are willing to go to confession immediately)
- “Bawdy Mary?” this spell is broken
- A bartender who heard you the first time
- A scorching hot hag (if you’re into hags)
10. What do the zombies want?
- Brains
- Brians
Please circle your answers in blood (obviously) and submit your papers via séance
Spooky, old time Japanese ghosts and monsters, in time for Halloween
Julia Wertz is a comics wizard and you wish you could lay it down like she does so read this interview and read her new book The Infinite Wait.
P.G. Wodehouse
"Canadian history is more interesting than you think" →
I was interviewed for this article, I think, because I make comics and jokes so I was supposed to bring The Good Times and laffs and stuff. I don’t think I delivered. We didn’t talk about Diefenbaker.
This seems like an argument, not for more accuracy, but for more ‘awesomeness’ in how our history is taught, and while I think Canadian history is endlessly fascinating, I rankle at the idea that what we really need to do is celebrate more awesome violent and terrible stuff and gaze out the window wishing we were cool enough to have had a civil war, too. Yeesh.
A quote: “Canadian history is full of oppression and genocide and forced labour and all the exciting things that other national histories have”
It’s not the notion that we should teach the unsavory aspects of our history that I disagree with, of course we should, everyone thinks we should. It’s not that I don’t think we’ve been presented with whitewashed narratives - too many Canadians think of something like slavery in Canada and puff up about how swell the Underground Railroad was without any clue about the life of someone like Marie-Joseph Angélique. And it’s not that I don’t think the underbelly of history is interesting, we all think that. It’s that those things are totally radical that strikes the wrong chord, and usually leads to some pretty terrible retelling of events.
I’m not a teacher or a scholar, but this article, it just didn’t sit well with me. I made it my job to poke fun at history in comics, sure, but schools and museums are a different ballgame.
And if you want museums to be interesting, for gods sake, stop cutting their funding for once and give them some money. They work with what they have, which is not much.