Beginning, Middle, but Never The End...
BEFORE WATCHMEN has been officially announced today from DC Entertainment. The project, which has been brewing for some time now under the code name Panic Room, has the blessing of co-creator Dave Gibbons, while estranged co-creator Alan Moore told The New York Times this morning the project was “completely shameless.” The series’ first-issue cover art are posted above, while below are the creative teams for new titles:
Silk Spectre by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner
Rorschach by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
Comedian by Brian Azzarello and J.G. Jones
Doctor Manhattan by J. Michael Straczynski and Adam Hughes
Nite Owl by J. Michael Straczynski, Andy and Joe Kubert
Ozymandias by Len Wein and Jae Lee
Curse of the Crimson Corsair by Len Wein and John Higgins will be a two-page back story running at the end of every Before Watchmen comic published.
…are you excited?
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The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb
96-page black & white 8.25” x 10.75” hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-480-1
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“I can express something [with animals] that is different from what I put into my work about humans… I can put more nonsense, more satire and fantasy into the animals…” — R. Crumb
Created by an adolescent R. Crumb in the late 1950s, Fritz the Cat rose to fame — along with his creator — during the underground comix revolution of the 1960s, and remains Crumb’s most well-known character and an internationally recognized icon of 1960s culture.
Fritz is a feline, freewheeling chiseler who allowed Crumb to express some of his most acidic commentary on American culture. Tragicomedy, farce and satire all rolled into one, The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat chronicles the very best of Fritz’s adventures from his early days as an idealistic college student to his ultimate fate as a jaded, burned-out superstar, including Crumb’s infamous send-off of the character in the wake of Ralph Bakshi’s animated feature film, an experience and project that completely dissatisfied Crumb.
Finally collected in a single volume, these Fritz stories are a funny, insightful, authentic record of a tumultuous period in American life, with humor and compassion by the most well-respected cartoonist of all time.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfuesdOa91qhal0to1_500.jpg)
