#infomaniacs

[rhinopress-blog]

Matthew Thurber's INFOMANIACS is my choice for best comic of 2013. Thurber is perhaps the funniest cartoonist working today, though in more of a narrative

Available at Rhino Books, check it out.

[rhinopress-blog]

Here is a great little Osamu Tezuka documentary for ya. 

Here at Rhino, we just received our order on some great releases including Osamu Tezuka's 1948 re-release The Mysterious Underground Men. 

Originally published in Osaka in 1948, The Mysterious Underground Men tells the story of Mimio the talking rabbit, as he struggles to prove his humanity while helping his friends save earth from an invasion of angry humanoid ants. While Tezuka’sNew Treasure Island (1946-47) was the first major hit for the “god of manga,” the artist himself regarded this later book the first of his signature “story manga. Inspired by Bernhard Kellermann’s Der Tunnel (1913) and drawing widely on European and American science fiction, as well as Milt Gross’ own pioneering “graphic novel,” He Done Her Wrong (1930), this full-color edition of The Mysterious Underground Men will not only introduce to English-language readers a founding monument in modern Japanese comics. It will also offer a rare glimpse at the wide-ranging Western cultural sources that made up young Tezuka’s world.

This is the second volume in PictureBox’s “Ten Cent Manga” series, edited by Ryan Holmberg, exploring that mysterious underground country between Japanese and American popular culture.

For more pics & info, Click Here.

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Additional new arrivals:

Diplo's Blow Your Head Vol. 2

Matthew Thurber's 1-800-MICE

Sun Ra + Aye Anton

and plenty more, here. 

[jenbaek]

Informational Amnesia!

I have experienced this frenzy far too often than I care to admit.

[millionsmillions]

Recommended Reading: Sam Frank’s interview with Infomaniacs author Matthew Thurber.

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Same Job; New Position

It’s obvious I didn’t adhere too well to my now three-month old plan, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading other blogs it’s that apologies for not writing do little good if no one is reading. The reality is that this blog was started for my…

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My favorite part of this awesomely nutty trailer for Matthew Thurber's brilliant new graphic novel, Infomaniacs, is Dan Nadel.

[pictureboxinc]

INFOMANIACS: The Video Trailer staring a cast of French people and... me. And you. And the Internet. By Matthew Thurber. Now go buy the book at half off! Coupon code: sale

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Come celebrate the release of INFOMANIACS with Matthew Thurber! 

Desert Island, Brooklyn. 

Friday, November 22nd, 7 pm. 

INFOMANIACS, by Matthew Thurber, is a graphic novel printed on paper all about the Internet. A hilarious detective story that manages to critique and explore digital culture,INFOMANIACS is marked by the author's restless questioning and heightened sense of the absurd. With the iconic Amy Shit as his Philip Marlow, Thurber looks in on "The Scriveners of Tweet Street", Albert Radar, a Joseph Beuys-lookalike psychiatrist, a perfectly preserved brain that has never seen the internet, an organic server farm, the Anthropamorphic Task Force, and so much more. But all of this is in service to a tightly plotted thriller. Think of it as The Long Goodbye for the Tumblr generation.