Lots to do today. Joe McCulloch bring us his weekly report.
Elsewhere:
Jacques Noël , the great founder and proprietor of the Paris bookstore where all good and bad forms of comics and illustration converged, Un Regard Moderne, passed away on Friday. The store was particularly renowned for championing the likes of Le Dernier Cri, ESDS, CBO, UDA, and other publishers of transgressive art. I was always honored to see one my books in the chaos. But that place (because calling it a store would be deceptive -- it was a place where you went and had an experience that sometimes resulted in maddening frustration and other times in walking out with a rare Pascal Doury edition) was just as likely to have a great stash of fiction, art monographs, pulp, and incredible reprints and archival material. Also, most of it was in head-high piles. What a place. I loved going there. It was a temple to print and it brought its owner few rewards, I suspect. I was just there in May and with a sly grin Jacques showed me a delightfully vicious Bruno Richard pamphlet. The vicious cannot be underestimated. I miss the vicious in art. RIP Jacques Noël. Thank you.
More prosaically, on to some links:
Gary Reed, founder of the classic 80s/90s company Caliber, passed away.
Yet another piece on Matt Furie's Pepe character., this time in the NY Times.
Want to wear Frank Santoro around your neck? Here's your chance.
I like cute little profiles of comic book collectors. Here's one, with a cameo from some excellent artworks.
Robert Crumb's parents: Bewildered!
