A Beasts Preview

Here are three preview images from the forthcoming Beasts: A Pictorial Schedule of Traditional Hidden Creatures From the Interest of 90 Modern Artisans. Fantagraphics is releasing this beauty in January, but I couldn't resist sharing a few images here. Rege Jr. and Nilsen have been featured here before for mini-comics, so it's not entirely out of line to post these images at SIZE MATTERS. Plus it's my damn blog and I'm very excited about this book.

Beasts is a 200 page hardcover dreamed up by the talented Jacob Covey. Inside, 90 artists give their take on monsters actually thought to exist at one point. And just maybe some of these creatures do still exist... Each beast gets the full color treatment and on the facing page a short paragraph gives the details.

Tyler Stout

Ron Rege Jr.

Anders Nilsen

Tom at Comics Reporter has more images from Beasts, including Tom Gauld and Mat Brinkman.

Harkham, Huizenga and Nilsen Tour

This is like a mini-comics (okay, they’ve graduated from minis, but they still have that all important mini-comic street cred thing going) Super Group Tour of your dreams.

I noticed this from Flog! this morning and I got that jealous feeling that I always get when I see cool stuff happening on the East or West Coast. Then I noticed that the Mini-Comics Super Group Tour will stop at Quimby’s in Chicago on Saturday, February 25th. Not only that, but just yesterday I had reserved a hotel room for that very day, as Kate and I will be celebrating her birthday extravaganza weekend.

I must be living right this year.

Again, Sammy Harkham, Kevin Huizenga and Anders Nilsen, pretty damn exciting and I’ll get to actually check this out.