Michel Gagne’s Frenzied Fauna from A-Z is now posted online for your viewing pleasure. It’s my favourite alphabet book just after The Gashlycrumb Tinies only with slightly more nightmare fuel as previously found in Insanely Twisted Rabbits.
I'm posting this here for all of those like me who realize you'll never be in a video game shop at the exact time a Nintendo Wii arrives - thus you'll never get to actually purchase one. Here's a contest open only to Canadians that allows you to win what basically amounts to a professionally graffitied Wii.
Only just recently have all the artists been revealed and I have to say that while I’m not a fan of Kardinal Offishall, his entry with Allister Lee done to look like a Jack Kirby creation or a character out of Gødland (not religious) makes me really really happy I entered.
Go, enter, and enjoy the fact that for the first time ever you’re in a contest for cool stuff open only to Canadians unlike all those other contests for cool stuff, like ever. This is a prize that money can’t buy – even if you could actually find the vanilla Wii in the first place.
I’ve been a fan of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey’s Action Philosophers! From the moment I finally got my hands on their Giant Size Thing a few months back. Whoa, that doesn’t sound right, and hello Google searching deviants.
For those of you that don’t think comics are anything but questionable physiques, juvenile male escapism, or terribly un-funny newspaper strips then this should go a long way to dropping some education on you. This is a series that explores the life and theories of various philosophers while simultaneously exploring the medium of comics itself. In the very first issue they have Plato as a masked luchadore smashing through his Socratic dialogues while learning he actually was a wrestler and Socrates was probably semi-illiterate.
This is a bit of a late update as the comic has since come to Ottawa and sold out a little while back but I thought I’d share the link to Comic Book Resources that has a preview of "You’re a Good Man John Stuart Mill." Scroll to the bottom for the images.
The individual issues are being collected into multiple volumes for your convenience. If you’re looking for something to read that is both quick and jammed full of information and fun, then visit your local comic shop or order online. Volume one and volume two are now available.
Go vote for the winning teams and watch the art bleed out into the street.
Fist-A-Cuffs
Yet another great online speakeasy for artists to break out a little bit of fun - heck it's got Paul Pope drawing Ring-Girls and just a fantastic assortment of entries from some great artists.
