Adhouse Books' publisher, Chris Pitzer, joins us this week. AdHouse Books has been a boutique publishing juggernaut since 2002. Over the years, they have won and been nominated for awards within the comic profession (Ignatz, Harvey, Eisner) and the design world (AIGA, Communication Arts, Domtar Paper). Their library of publications is an eclectic mix of sequential and illustrative arts including works by James Jean, Paul Pope, Josh Cotter, Jamie Tanner, and Adam Hines.

Recent releases include Ethan Rilly's Pope Hats #3, Thomas Herpich's White Clay, and Lamar Abrams Remake 3xtra.

Follow Adhouse Books on Twitter @adhousebooks .

SHOW NOTES

Dean Motter, Mr. X
Herb Lubalin
Lester Beall
Charles Anderson
John Pham's zine Scuzzi
Mike Mitchell
Art Chantry's essay on Jacob Covey's cover design for the Strange Case of Edward Gorey
Leanne Shapton, J&L Books

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Dustin Harbin is a funny cartoonist and illustrator (I think he might be a master of kung fu too, but I'm not positive about that). He's also a contributor to the Drawn Blog, your daily source of inspiration for illustration, animation, cartooning, and comic art. Koyama Press has published 4 volumes of his Diary Comics. He's a prolific artist whose work can be found on dharbin.com, dharbin.tumblr.com, and Flickr. Follow him on twitter @dustinharbin. You can purchase books, prints, drawings, and more directly from Harbin at the Dharbmart.

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Top: Diary Comics 4 cover; bottom - "Out of the Woods", from the One Hour Drawings series

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MATT BORS is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist and editor based in Portland, OR. He was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his political cartoons, which appear regularly in The Sacramento Bee, Portland Mercury, Pittsburgh City Paper, and on Daily Kos.

In the summer of 2010, Bors traveled to Afghanistan to draw comics and serves as the comics journalism editor for Cartoon Movement where he is currently editing a project on reconstruction efforts in Haiti.

His work has been published by The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Village Voice, The Daily Beast,and dozens of other print and web publications.

In 2012, Bors was the reciepient of the Herblock Prize and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for his editorial cartooning.

His first graphic novel, War Is Boring, a collaboration with journalist David Axe, was published in 2010 by New American Library.

Bors recently launched a Kickstarter for his first book, a 225 page collection of cartoons and humor essays titled Life Begins At Incorporation.

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Top: Red Bull's Adstronaut; Middle: White Dudes Talkin' Rape; Bottom: War Is Boring cover art.

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Matt Furie is an artist, illustrator, cartoonist, zinester, and biker. His self proclaimed "children’s book illustrations for adults” combines traditional and modern mark-making for his ripe, cartoon-inspired characters. McSweeney's recently released his first children's book, The Night Riders - a wordless wonder about an unlikely group of characters on a road trip through nature. Four issues of his comic book series, Boys Club, have been published by Pigeon Press and Buenaventura Press.

SHOW NOTES

See more of Matt Furie's artwork at mattfurie.com and bigactive.

In the course of this interview, we discuss Future Colors of America collaborators Aiyana Udeson and Albert Reyes, the children's book Grandpa's Ghost Stories by James Flora, film and creative collective Encyclopedia Pictura, Andy Rementer's webcomic Techno Tuesday, and Kyle Platt's Megaskull.

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Top: drawing from Furie's website; middle: excerpt from comic book series, Boys Club; bottom: cover of The Night Riders

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Librarian/cartoonist/zinester Caitlin McGurk is the Visiting Curator at The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Before that, she was the librarian at the Schulz Library at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can read about the amazing stuff she sees at the Billy Ireland on their blog.

Recently on behalf of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, McGurk announced the establishment of The Dylan Williams Collection of small press and self-published works.

Top: McGurk with Wu-Tang cards (from Jen Vaughn's Flickr); bottom: rendering of the New Sullivant Hall, opening November 2013 (from Ohio State University website)

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Mark Zingarelli is an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. His influences include EC Comics and Robert Crumb. His work has been published in the New Yorker, Weirdo, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, and Blab. You can see more at the House of Zing or in his comic book, Real Life (Fantagraphics).

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Jason Latour is a comic book artist, writer, and colorist based in Charlotte, NC. His credits include Wolverine, Punisher, BPRD, Noche Roja, Scalped, Expatriate, Loose Ends, and Winter Soldier. You can find more news and art at jasonlatour.com.

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Jeffrey Inscho is the writer/designer/thinker behind Static Made and the cohost of ZenGeek, a weekly audio program that focuses on technology and mindfulness. He also manages web and digital media initiatives at the Carnegie Museum of Art and before that he was the Director of Media + Public Relations at the Mattress Factory. In the course of our discussion, he mentioned David Allen's book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, Ben Brooks' site The Brooks Review, and Patrick Rhone's essay Saying No Is Really Saying Yes to Other Things. Static Made logo designed by Justin Visnesky.

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After a career in film-making and advertising, Anne Koyama founded Koyama Press in 2007 in Toronto. Koyama Press’s mandate is to promote and support a wide range of emerging and established artists. Projects include comics, art books and zines. Koyama Press titles are distributed by Last Gasp, Tony Shenton, and Spit and a Half. They are available for purchase online through Secret Acres.

A selection of new and recent Koyama Press titles

The Kickass Annie Project features different artist interpretations of the Koyama Press Kickass Annie logo. The original Kickass Annie logo (seen at the top of this post) was created for Koyama Press by artist Aaron Leighton; the animated GIF was designed by David Huyck. You can check out the whole set on Flickr.

Kickass Annie by Jim Rugg

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detail from LIMINAL SPACES: New site-specific paintings by Stephanie Armbruster presented by the College Inn Project and Bar Marco

The portfolio of artist Stephanie Armbruster is a densely layered exploration of structure and symbolism.

Working primarily as an encaustic painter, Stephanie creates luminous, translucent surfaces by suspending drawings, pigment and ephemera between layers of molten wax.

These multi-layered emotive images suggest an evolving visual narrative, hinting at the process of their creation. Certain elements become obscured, while others are exposed, rising to the surface as if paused between actions.

See more of Stephanie's work at stephaniearmbruster.com.

Hungry Ghosts VIII 2012 Encaustic on panel Triptych - 30" x 60" overall

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