Jungil Hong, Grill with Polka Dots, 2011

A page from C.F.’s Powr Mastrs 3.

A new collection of his visual work, Sediment, is due in November.

You may remember how quickly Alec Thibodeau’s lunar calendar sold out last year. He’s done another intricate letterpress calendar for 2011 and it is now available for pre-order.

Brian Chippendale’s new 800 page tomb, If-n-Oof, just came out. But if that wasn’t enough, he’s got a semi-regular comic going on over at Picturebox called Puke Force.

CDR availalable here.

C.F., Brown Door II, 2007
Silkscreen, 17” x 23”

Available at Picturebox.

Here’s a panel from Brian Chippendale’s upcoming 650 page tome, If-n-Oof, due out in June.

Ideas are crazy. It’s about a seven-mile ride to the comic store from where I live, and every week I bike there. Something about that trip helps me solve problems with If ‘n Oof. I ride with a sketchpad and stuff, and it’s literally like turning the tap on. I can’t even tackle anywhere near the amount of ideas I have. There’s too many goddamn ideas! It’s killing me! Not that I’m trying to say “I’m the most creative person in the world!”, but somehow, I can tap into ideas. Maybe it’s the same idea over and over again turned upside-down on its head, but they’re killing me sometimes. I’m drowning in ideas. Help me!

Might as well go with NASA.

This was among the last good finds I came across at the Providence In Your Ear, before it closed years ago. Sitting in a clearance bin were three double-disc sets of Hermann Nitsch’s massive harmonium drone.

Of the recordings, Nitsch said:

In 1968, I got a harmonium as a wedding present from my wife. From then on, I sat at the harmonium and played almost exclusively long notes that never wanted to end. I tried to listen into the infinite structure of the stars, into the unimaginable spaces searching for sound. The joy of beautiful colors, of (almost intoxicating) combinations of sound was most important but at the same time it was carried by the almost presumptuous task to conjure, to sing of, and measure the extent of cosmic space. The course of the stars were to be put to sound.

Mat Brinkman’s Multiforce strips have been collected in a new publication from PictureBox, which is now available. These originally appeared in issues of the much loved Paper Rodeo.

PictureBox has some good stuff coming in 2010, with a new book from Chippendale and a reprint of Charles Willeford’s memoir, I Was Looking for a Street.

I managed to miss out on Tiny Showcase’s 2010 glow-in-the-dark calendar this year, featuring the artwork of Alec Thibodeau. Providence locals may be in luck, however, and might still be able to nab a copy at Craftland.

Out now.

Wire sculpture portraits of cheese by C.W. Roelle. You may remember the Cable Car Cinema sculpture they had above the popcorn machine. Available for preorder at Tiny Showcase.

New Black Pus record out this week.