STATION DELTA'S SECOND STAGE
The second issue of Coconino World's "Station Delta" anthology website has launched, featuring "nearly 500 pages" of comics, graphics, animation and text. Pieces reflecting the issue's general theme of "Chinese shadow" include a copiously illustrated essay on shadow-plays and sillhouette by Thierry Smolderen. Images from George Cruikshank's Comic Almanack are among several miscellaneous files hidden throughout the site.
INFO: Station Delta
posted by Egon on Friday, April 04, 2003

SHMOO U
In an interview with Newsarama, Denis Kitchen discusses the cultural and material history of Al Capp's "Shmoo" character and reports the status of his unfinished "Lil Abner" reprint project: "Right now I am packaging four more volumes that Dark Horse Comics is going to put out. They are going to start doing the color Sunday Lil Abner when Frank Frazetta was the ghost artist."
INFO: Newsarama
posted by Egon on Friday, April 04, 2003

PREMIERE PERIODICAL PIECES
The first issue of Bandoppler Magazine features an interview with David Lasky, who provides the issue's cover illustration, and "an in-depth article by Anne Elizabeth Moore on Jessica Abel," reveals co-editor Chris Estey. Bandoppler is published quarterly by the Artist Reformation Project of Seattle, WA. Meanwhile, Charles Burns provides portraits of Terry Gilliam, Beth Orton, Salman Rushdie and Susan Straight for the debut cover of "The Believer," a new monthly magazine from McSweeney's Books.
INFO: Bandoppler
INFO: The Believer
posted by Egon on Friday, April 04, 2003

BRUT NOUVEAU
The latest issue of the Paper Rodeo anthology newspaper is now available, weighing in at an unprecedented 28 pages. Complete ordering information reproduced from the publication's press release follows:
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posted by Egon on Tuesday, April 01, 2003

SIKORYAK SPINS AGAIN
R. Sikoryak brings "Carousel: Cartoon slide shows and other projected pictures" to New York's Marquee theater at 8:30 on April 7. Sikoryak will host the program, featuring work by himself and a group of presenters. The Marquee is located at 356 Bowery between East Jones & East 4th Street; admission is $12 or $10 for seniors and students.
posted by Egon on Tuesday, April 01, 2003

NARCISSUS AND ECO
Domingos Isabelinho has posted an English-language translation of Umberto Eco's essay "Four Ways of Talking About Comics" to the Comics Journal's message board. In the piece, Eco calls for a comics criticism that addresses "a particular comic, knowing that it belongs to the comics medium, and some genre practiced through this medium, but forgetting that it is a comic."
INFO: The Comics Journal
posted by Egon on Monday, March 31, 2003

MOORE WANTS THE AIRWAVES
Todd Mundt chats with Alan Moore in today's episode of the Todd Mundt Show, broadcast on NPR and currently available as a streaming audio file from the program's website. Over the course of roughly twenty-five minutes, Moore expounds upon the origins of his "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," the opportunities inherent in mapping fictional worlds and comics' primal relationship with human cognition.
INFO: The Todd Mundt Show
posted by Egon on Monday, March 31, 2003

PICTOPIA REDUX
Alan Moore and Don Simpson's "Pictopia" will be re-printed in "The Extraordinary Works Of Alan Moore," an upcoming tribute book from TwoMorrows Publishing, reports Comic Book Resources' "Lying in the Gutters" news and rumor column. The thirteen page story, from a 1986 issue of "Amazing Heroes," will be re-colored and will appear alongside a lengthy biographical interview, miscellaneous reprinted shorts and original material by an assortment of Moore's collaborators, peers and admirers.
INFO: Comic Book Resources
posted by Egon on Monday, March 31, 2003

ALINE N' BOB: STYLE FOR THE TIMES
Six Robert Crumb drawings of Aline Kominsky-Crumb modeling contemporary outfits comprise the "Style" section of this week's New York Times Magazine. The images, some in full color, are available on the Times' website, as is a short accompanying interview with Crumb. Crumb briefly describes his own tastes in women and fashion and he notes the relationship between his work and gallery culture.
INFO: New York Times
posted by Egon on Sunday, March 30, 2003