Enrico’s blog

Wow, Richard Thompson’s work is smart, hilarious and beautifully drawn. His line is so alive and scratchy, I love it. I spent a lot of time this weekend perusing his blog.
link via drawn.ca

Yay! Just received Jillian Tamaki’s Graphic novel Skim (written by her cousin Mariko Tamaki). It looks wonderful, the drawings have a great loose feeling to them, can’t wait to read it.

Topolino is the italian name for Mickey Mouse, but it’s more than that, since the 1950s Topolino is the name of a little weekly magazine filled with comics of the classic Disney characters. From Donal Duck to Goofy, from Clarabelle to Peg Leg Pete (Paperino, Pippo, Clarabella e Gamba di Legno in italian). It’s really [...]

Picked up this graphic novel by Rutu Modan yesterday. I’ve heard
great things about it. Looks really nice that’s for sure. I’ll let you know what I think once I finish reading it.
update- Friend Vera Brosgol pointed some wonderful comics Modan made for the New York Times. Great stuff. I am half way through the book [...]

As some of you might know, I’ve been itching to make a book collecting all the 120 plus pages of the Venice Chronicles for some time now. In the last few months I’ve needed to muster some patience with all that. I’ve worked with a literary agent since the fall and the book has done [...]

Good friends Ted Mathot and Bill Presing (of Rose and Isabel and Rex Steele fame) were also traveling around Europe recently. They had quite the tour in France for the release of their comics over there and they attended the Angouleme International festival de la Bande Desinee. Been wanting to go to that one for [...]

This is a really interesting interview in comic version with Marjane Satrapi. She brings up such deep but simple points. I like the ending note especially: “the second I have a friend in one country, that country cannot be my enemy.” So true, so simple. Ok, ready for the next SketchCrawl friends all around the [...]

The wonderful anthology “Out of Picture” edited by my good friend Dice Tsutsumi is getting a spiffy new edition with their new publisher. The second volume they just finished putting together is also already available for preorder on Amazon and filled with amazing new stories.

I discovered this amazing french artist through the blog another amazing european artist I am big fan of: Gipi. Bastien Vive’s work is fantastic and heartfelt, his pen and colored pencil drawings have a wonderful warmth. Here you can see work from his book La boucherie (which I am gonna have to order on [...]

The George Seurat exhibition at the MOMA is outstanding, I am so glad I had a chance to see it. For those of you too far from New York city here’s a wonderful audio-slideshow at the NewYorkTimes page (link via Drawn). The atmosphere, lighting and mood of these charcoal pieces is really amazing. Seurat is [...]