Awesome Comic Books
For those that don’t know, when I’m not at art shows, I work at a comic book factory. I read about 8 comic books a day. Rusty math skills reveal that this means I’ve read about 2000 comic books last year. Maybe that makes me an expert, or a total nerd, or both. But I’ve seen a lot of comics, good and bad, awesome and terrible. In my time at the comic book factory, I’ve read a few comics that are really pretty great, which you should check out. These books are not necessarily new, or super-cutting edge, they are just great: these comics are doing it right. Awesome Comic #1: Infinite Vacation In ...Read more
New Comic Book Wednesday
Helen came back for a couple of months but they she left again. She left again yesterday, to be specific. She’s on the road right now as we speak, driving east, heading for a without-me free life of living in a no longer spare bedroom with her mom. I’m not taking it well. The only relief that I can find right now after an entire night of not sleeping is that I haven’t run out of whiskey yet and it’s Wednesday, which means Open Mic Poetry and Music at the Burnt Toast in Boulder tonight at 8:30 and this is also the one day of the week when all the new comics are released into the wild shelves of your local Comic Book Shop. I’ve just returned from ...Read more
Long Live The Only Goddamn Place Inside Which Helen Can't Haunt Me
Long Live The Only Goddamn Place Inside Which Helen Can’t Haunt Meaka Time Warp Comics Turns 25 This MonthSanctuary’s are hard to come by in this new shit economy riddled world. The amount of madness that generally stalks this planet seems to have tripled in the past two or three years since Helen first said goodbye and the Bush administration attempted to auction away our nations testicles for a case of Dick Cheney home brew. Human beings are a hard breed to deal with on a daily basis as it is, take away their jobs and their houses and their 401k plans and things tend to turn extra twisted, quick. It’s a rough world out there. Emotionally. Physically. Lac...Read more
An introduction to Noah Van Sciver by him.
Hello everybody. I'm Noah Van Sciver! The noted/noteworthy underground cartoonist. From now on I'll be posting what I like to call "scraps" for you to read. "Scraps" are comic pages that I drew just for fun and then later on realized I didn't know what to do with! And, that I should have been drawing that illustration that's due in 3 hours instead! Well, luckily for me, Illiterate knew that I was that kind of guy, and offered to let me use their space! What a nice crowd. Here we go! " alt="" /> ...Read more
...I Hope You Dance
Just a little love for you to feast your being on. This video below contains some explicit cartoon scenes, flashing lights and is FOR OVER 18's ONLY. Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus. Co Directed/ Animation by Devin Flynn. Co Directed/ Edited by Eric Fensler. More info at dancefloordale.com Although this isnt a comic per se, it is very comical and borderline genius. The world must know. Its hypnotizing in the same way as when you look at a car wreck and cant look away. Its artistic and thoroughly religious. Happy Thursday from the illiterati. ...Read more
Love to Hate: Comics
To explain this seemingly conflicted theme, one could take the examples of such popular comics as Cathy or Family Circus. As I peruse the comics section of the Sunday newspaper I cant help reading them. I already know they are going to suck but I just can't resist, it's as if I need to fuel my love for hating them on a weekly schedule. This goes for the culture as a whole, we are amazing cruel in the way we build up our heroes and favorite celebrities just to bring them back down and continue hating them with a list of all the other things we hate for whatever reason. "I love this" or "I hate that" are sentences we drop like acid at a Phish concert. We are all too comfortable using the stron...Read more
Introducing the Illiterate Comic
Sometimes they make us laugh, and sometimes they make us cry. And no, I'm not talking about your self indulgent pill-popping transvestite step-daddy, I'm referring to the world of comics. Ever since our Neanderthal ancestors doodled their surroundings on cave walls we have been in a love affair with the image as a story. We have over the years developed the need to project our wants, fears, and emotions onto hapless and heroic characters alike through art and literature. Although the comic would seemingly be an instant form or art loved and admired by all since it couples our romance with the image and the word, it has instead been pushed under the radar. Although the form of comics is a fai...Read more
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