GET YOUR PHIL
The Comicsreaders.com website carries a lengthy interview with Phil Elliott, in which the cartoonist holds forth on the various stages of his own career and surveys the past and present of British comics. The piece includes a handful of Elliott's candid snapshots from the British small press scene of the 1980s.
INFO: Comicreaders.com
posted by Egon on Thursday, June 19, 2003

MOCCA RADIO
Jessica Abel, Lawrence Klein, Art Spiegelman and Kent Worcester will appear on the Friday, June 20 edition of David Garland's "Spinning on Air" WNYC radio program to discuss the upcoming MoCCA comic arts festival. WNYC broadcasts are available online as streaming audio files.
INFO: WNYC
posted by Egon on Tuesday, June 17, 2003

CATTLE CALL
Paper Rodeo solicits contributions and advertising to appear in the next issue of the newsprint comics anthology. The full release follows:
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posted by Egon on Tuesday, June 17, 2003

MOORE & TALBOT'S NIGHTJAR
Avatar Press announces "Yuggoth Cultures And Other Growths," a new series compiling miscellaneous early work by Alan Moore. The series will "will reprint a lot of unreprinted and out-of-print Alan Moore material, as well as a number of never-published projects." The first issue will include Nightjar, a collaboration between Moore and Bryan Talbot originally conceived as a serial for Warrior Magazine. Talbot has completed the long-unfinished story for inclusion in the series' first issue.
INFO: Avatar Press
posted by Egon on Tuesday, June 17, 2003

WOOD, WOODRING: GAP KIDS
Washington state's Artist Trust has announced 2003 Grants for Artists (GAP) program award recipients, including cartoonists Randy Wood and Jim Woodring. Thirty-six artists were chose from among 772 applicants. "Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to support and encourage individual artists working in all disciplines in order to enrich community life throughout Washington State."
INFO: Artist Trust
posted by Egon on Monday, June 16, 2003

DOWNLOAD THE LOWDOWN
"Beetle," a track from the Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge musical collaboration "Orpheus, The Lowdown" is available for download from the website for Partridge's Ape House record label. The record is due this summer.
INFO: Ape House
posted by Egon on Monday, June 16, 2003

PERSEPOLIS PRESSES ON
The Ottawa Citizen carries a lengthy Associated Press piece on Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, speaking with the cartoonist about the book's genesis, her personal history and the current global political climate. "The only thing I hope is that people read my book and see that this abstract thing, this Axis of Evil, is made up of individuals with lives and hopes," says Satrapi. The San Francisco Chronicle briefly reviews Persepolis alongside Firoozeh Dumas' Iranian-American memoir, "Funny in Farsi."
INFO: Ottawa Citizen
INFO: San Francisco Chronicle
posted by Egon on Monday, June 16, 2003

SACCO IN WINTER
January Magazine's June issue features a lengthy interview with Joe Sacco, as spotted by the Comics Journal's "iJournalista!" website. "[Sacco] recently spent several months in Gaza, and is currently working on a book based on that trip," the magazine reports. Sacco explains: "See, I was researching an incident that took place in 1956. I'm going to be writing about what's going on now. But so it doesn't read like my last book, just like Palestine updated, it's sort of centered around something that happened in 1956, and I just tried to find some old men to find out what happened on that day, that time. And so the story's about finding that story, and meeting these old men."
INFO: January Magazine
posted by Egon on Monday, June 16, 2003