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Straight for the art | Brandon Graham's 33rd birthday comic

by Brandon Graham

I was out last week, so I missed a couple of items that I hope to share today ... the first of which is this comic strip from King City creator Brandon Graham. I should probably mention that the link goes to Brandon's LiveJournal, which can sometimes be not so safe for work.

On his 33rd birthday, which was last week, he started to create a story where he was going to meet the "gods" of comics. "I was going to draw them as big mount rushmore faces of Tezuka Herge and Kirby," Graham says. "The bathtub stuff was all a lead up to meeting the comic gods but then as I was penciling it. I realized I needed to turn in another KC back cover. So it became one of those."

The comic will appear as the back cover to King City #8.

Straight for the art | Knight and NCS

Keith Knight's NCS suggestions

Keith Knight attended the National Cartoonists Society's annual convention and has some notable and worthwhile suggestions on how to make the event better.

Let's hope this becomes a regular feature

Bechdel's book review

Comic-strip-style book reviews seem to be all the rage these days. First it was Ward Sutton, now Alison Bechdel reviews Jane Vandenburgh's memoir, A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century, for the New York Times. (Thanks to Jeff Lester for the link.)