EAZ #2 contributors and multi-faceted zinester/cartoonist Jose Luis Olivares has just posted two incredible and rich paintings on his awesome flickr . I was really taken with these and thought you guys would dig them too:

http://yourmessageisimportant.blogspot.com/

Very exciting details confirmed on a project that's been hinted at and talked about for the last year. Marvel has ordered up a second miniseries of STRANGE TALES comics, featuring "indie" cartoonists taking on Marvel canon. I posted previously about the first 3-issue series, and am again stoked for this round. Series editor Jody LeHeup talks more on this Marvel blog post.

(#1 cover by Rafael Grampa)

The 2nd series of Strange Tales will feature two Electric Ant contributors: Dash Shaw & Jon Vermilyea!

Others in the books are: Alex Robinson, David Heatley, Dean Haspiel, Edu Medeiros, Farel Dalrymple, Frank Santoro, Gene Yang, Gilbert Hernandez, Harvey Pekar, Jaime Hernandez, Jeff Lemire, Jeffrey Brown, Jhonen Vasquez, Jillian Tamaki, Kate Beaton, Kevin Huizenga, Nick Gurewitch, Paul Hornschemeier, Paul Maybury, Rafael Grampa, Shannon Wheeler, Terry Moore, Tim Hamilton, Tony Millionaire, and more.

(via Robot6)

BIG sale!

doing some Summer cleaning

Selling many drawings cheap and some not so cheap.  You can have a look here if you are interested in what I have to offer:  Click me! For pricing information email me at 

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PictureBox's new site has started syndicating new True Chubbo strips,a collaborative comic by newlyweds Tomomi Fujimaru and Prison For Bitches contributor Ray Sohn. It's a hilarious strip about being in a relationship, with a heta-uma art & gag style that weirdly makes it one of the most romantic comics I've read; the sexual negotiating and interracial faux-racism teasing between Ray and Tomomi is rugged but also really cute & relatable to me. Is that strange?

This is must read stuff!!

Here are just a few strips to check out; I posted previously a longer collection of True Chubbo comics when it was featured on Viceland last year:

Also relevant is Ray's recent post, A Brief Survey Of Heta-uma Style Depictions Of The Penis, featuring Same Hat favorites Hanakuma and Nemoto.

This week marks the release of the final volume in the Scott Pilgrim comix era, with a busy burst of events in Toronto being orchestrated by The Beguiling... followed by a massive SP marketing explosion at SDCC leading into the Edgar Wright film release next month. It's sorta insane.

Turns out that two EAZB crew members got tapped to create works for all this crazy business.

• Michael DeForge created the Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour release party poster, which will feature Bryan Lee O'Malley and a whole street (surrounding The Beguiling) in Toronto hosting related events. DeForge will be at the event signing posters, I hear
• Hellen Jo was tapped to create one of four "gig posters" as part of an official limited edition Scott Pilgrim four-color silkscreen for sale at SDCC. Full details here.

I hope (assume?) both prints will be available afterward via ppl's respective sites?

PS: Did I mention that my sorta boneheaded local comic shop started selling copies of Scott Pilgrim last week before the official release date? I snagged a copy before Oni got wind of it and SHUT 'EM DOWN. (!!!)

The totally awesome Prison For Bitches (produced by EAZB's very own home team) finally made me give da Ladyz stuff a look/listen and I gotta confess I liked what I saw/heard. So much so I cranked out this picture. My apologies to Ms.Gaga, Xianxingzhe and the good people of Paramus.

From Michael's flickr:

i'm pretty sure i'm allowed to post this! i drew this for James Stokoe's excellent Image Comics series "Orc Stain."

I hear the 4th issue comes out this week; I've been loving most everything from this series so far and really stoked to see such a lush and ambitious (but straight-forward!) series coming out regularly. Oh shit, and DeForge is the one that got me into the book, how fitting!

A very minor update: using the new Pages functionality in Posterous I've added 3 anchor sections to the top of the EAZB:  About the EAZB, Contributors, and Stores. Should be pretty self-explanatory, but let me know if I missed anything or anyone!

-yr faithful editor,
ryan

I don't post here enough! Will try to be more diligent in the coming weeks. Two tracks produced by YMO members from the 1980s. Techno kayou brought techno sounds into mainstream Japanese popular music. This is my favourite kind of idol music. <3