Grandpapier

Derik Badman writes a brief post on Grandpapier, a project started by Belgian publisher L’Employé de Moi. The site features work in French and English as well as a number of wordless strips.

Recent Comics Bureau postee Darryl Cunningham comments on Derik’s post;

I was recently asked if I wanted to contribute to GrandPapier, and have now been doing so for a number of weeks. I find the style of the comics on the site to be so much more playful than US or UK comics. There’s a real freshness about the approach there which made me realise how staid English language comix have become.

Looking at the quality of the work, this is a hard opinion to disagree with.

Darryl Cunningham Investigates

Following a lead from the talented Jonathan Edwards is Darryl Cunningham.

Darryl makes comics about his experience of working as a psychiatric nurse, which makes for fascinating reading.

Stitches

David Small talks to Sasha Watson at Publishers Weekly about his graphic memoir ‘Stitches’.

You can also have a look at a preview of the book here.

David’s site is also quite good – have a look through his sketchbooks.

Lucy Kinsley in Paris

Lucy Kinsley, author of French Milk returns to Paris with her boyfriend and keeps a travel diary – Paris Journal.

Dash Shaw

Check out Dash Shaw’s ‘Bottomless Belly Button‘, his blog and his website. You can also listen to an interview with him here.

Anders Nilsen

Although I loved ‘Monologues For The Coming Plague‘, which I found both funny and thought provoking, I think I might have had Anders Neilsen wrongly pegged up until recently as something of a ‘thinking-man’s-David-Shrigley’.

Having taken the time to find out more about his work, I’m somewhat impressed that he can reconcile the ways in which he works – his at times abstract language of icons and symbols, and his superbly drafted illustrative work. (See below)

Have a look at his gorgeous site, buy all his books and read his blog immediately!

Paul Hornschemeier

Hornschemeier doesn’t simply push the panel edges of the comics medium; he designs entirely off the page, encouraging other creators to join him over the horizon.
– Chicago Tribune

An online version of a Paul Hornschemeier interview conducted by Gary Groth that originally appeared in Mome #1.

Interview here, site here.

John Allison

I like John’s work – he recently announced on his blog the end of Scarygoround and the beginnings of a mysterious new project

Vague Scientist

Check out Stephen Collins’ Coelacanth Diaries. I really wish Vague Scientist actually existed.

Woodring’s ‘Big Egypt Parlour Sphynx’

Check out the sculpt for Jim Woodring’s Parlour Sphynx’ vinyl toy over at Vinyl Pulse. If you haven’t come across Jim Woodring before, shame on you. Check out his books, his website and his blog