WARBURGER REVEALED
Strip Core reveals a final table of contents for "Warburger," the publishing group's war-themed edition of the Stripburger comics anthology. The 400-page book features roughly eighty strips beneath a cover by Stephane Blanquet. Contributers, solicited via open call, include Max Andersson, Edmond Baudoin, Jef Czekaj, Mike Diana, Hendrik Dorgathen, Ulf K., Peter Kuper, Mawil, Metaphrog, Josh Neufeld, Carol Swain and Eric Thériault . The Strip Core website offers a biography and sample page for each contributing artist.
INFO: Strip Core
posted by Egon on Tuesday, August 12, 2003

THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT
The current issue of Entertainment Weekly features a six-page strip written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by Gary Dumm, the ICv2 website reports. "'My Movie Year' (a play on his 'Cancer Year' storyline) tells Pekar's history from 1962, when he first met Robert Crumb and began working in the comics medium, until 2003 and the American Splendor film's critical acclaim." The same issue also includes a review of Chris Ware's "Quimby the Mouse."
INFO: ICv2
posted by Egon on Tuesday, August 12, 2003

PALESTINE IN OZ & ENGLAND
Australia's Green Left Weekly reviews the Jonathon Cape edition of Joe Sacco's "Palestine," published earlier this year in the UK. An earlier review of the book by London's Financial Times ran in anticipation of June's Comica comic arts festival and includes commentary from Sacco.
INFO: Green Left Weekly
INFO: Financial Times
posted by Egon on Monday, August 11, 2003

WILLIAM WOOLFOLK DEAD AT 86
The New York Times' wire service recently reported the July 20 death of comic book writer William Wolfolk, as spotted by the Comics Journal's "iJournalista!" website. Woolfolk began his career writing for the Eisner-Iger shop in the 1940s. "He wrote for several different companies at once, including DC (Superman and Batman); Timely, the precursor to Marvel comics (Sub-Mariner and Captain America); and Fawcett (Captain Marvel and Bulletman)... When Eisner went into the service in spring 1942, Woolfolk took over writing The Spirit, along with the noted pulp author Manley Wade Wellman." He is credited with coining Captain Marvel's signature exclamation, "Holy Moley!" Woolfolk was 86.
INFO: Miami Herald
posted by Egon on Monday, August 11, 2003

PERSEPOLIS HITS ASIA
Time Asia reviews Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis in this week's edition. "By deflecting moments of abject fear with humor, Satrapi proves the best way to exorcise tyranny may be to laugh at it."
INFO: Time Asia
posted by Egon on Monday, August 11, 2003

THE NEW PEKAR
The New Yorker reviews "American Splendor," the film based upon Harvey Pekar's autobiographical comics, and notes the film's relationship to its source material. "In short, 'American Splendor' does what few movies of late have bothered, or dared, to do: it registers the beat of ordinary lives. That it does so in tribute to a comic book is the most telling joke of all."
INFO: The New Yorker
posted by Egon on Monday, August 11, 2003

THURBER VS. THURBER
The New York Times Book Review examines "The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber," a nearly 800-page tome edited by Harrison Kinney. Writer Terry Teachout ultimately concludes that the collection is overly complete and that Thurber the writer bears unflattering comparison to Thurber the cartoonist: "What is more striking about this cartoon -- indeed, about most of Thurber's cartoons -- is that it is artful in a way that even the best of his stories rarely manage. As casually as he regarded them (or affected to), my guess is that his cartoons will be remembered long after his prose has been put on the shelf."
INFO: The New York Times
posted by Egon on Sunday, August 10, 2003

HO CHE ANDERSON: KINGMAKER
The New York Times' Sunday "Arts" section runs a lengthy feature on "King," Ho Che Anderson's recently completed three volume comics biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. "I think of it as a nonfiction novel," Anderson tells the Times. "It's a riff on him, it's an idea. I'm hoping that it's a compelling enough narrative that people will be inspired to go back and learn more about him themselves."
INFO: The New York Times
posted by Egon on Sunday, August 10, 2003

LABD UPDATE: CARLOS NINE, SFAR
French BD website labd.com has updated with material including a suite of features on Joann Sfar, with four pages of commentary by the artist, and an interview with Carlos Nine, whose work appears in Little Lit's recent third volume.
INFO: labd.com
posted by Egon on Sunday, August 10, 2003

THE POLIS AND THE DISTRICT
Ben Katchor's strip for the August/September issue of Metropolis Magazine is online; "Euro Trash and American Garbage" is a two-page full-color strip. Additionally, the New York Times Book Review includes Pantheon's softcover edition of "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District" in its list of "New & Noteworthy Paperbacks."
INFO: Metropolis Magazine
INFO: The New York Times
posted by Egon on Sunday, August 10, 2003

PEKAR PRESSES ON
Harvey Pekar and "American Splendor" command the attention of numerous press outlets as the critically lauded film based on his autobiographical comics nears release. Time's Andrew Arnold interviews Pekar for the latest installment of his regular online comics column. The Village Voice's Laura Sinagra reflects on Pekar's depiction of Cleveland as part of the city's broader cultural identity. Sunday's New York Times features a half-page, full-color comic strip written by Pekar and drawn by Gary Dumm titled "Comics Are My Thing," available as an online slideshow.
INFO: Time.comix
INFO: Village Voice
INFO: The New York Times
posted by Egon on Sunday, August 10, 2003