Mome (an archiac term for a fool or a blockhead) is a comic quarterly edited by Eric Reynolds and publishd by Fantagraphics Books. Delivering quality graphic fare since the Summer of 2005, Mome has featured the work of Archer Prewitt, Paul Hornschemeier, Dash Shaw, Sophie Crumb, Martin Cendreda, Ray Fenwick, Laura Park and John Hankiewicz amongst many others. The new volume includes the first new comic in several years by Dave Cooper as well as work by Tim Lane, Ben Jones and T. Edward Bak, to name a few. More details and examples at the bottom of this post. Vol.18 should be out any day now and fuck, it looks good.

Cruise the pages of Vol. 18 here. Subscribe to Mome here.

Brooklyn based photographer, artist and art lover Jessica Williams has organized a zine library for our viewing pleasure.  Check it out here. You can purchase her latest photography publication Glance, here.

Joe Matt wears his heart on his pen. Since 1987, the cartoonist’s trials and tribulations pertaining to friends, roommates, his cat, his relationships with women, his porn habit and the human race, have all been found in his serialized autobiographical comic book, Peep Show. Joe was kind enough to answer some of my questions recently, via email. The results are below.

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It’s been awhile since we heard from Daniel Clowes … the cartoonist. I stopped asking for new issues of Eightball during trips to The Beguiling years after his popular serialized Ghost World graphic novel became a major motion picture. A few years later Sony Classics released Art School Confidential, loosely based on a short story of the same name that appeared in Eightball #7. He seemed to be on his Hollywood A-Game and so, still, all I had was my Death Ray issue to reread over and over again. (Rumour has it Jack Black’s Black and White Productions are to adapt The Death Ray into a film). Well, the wait is over. Come May of this year we can smell and hold the sweet pages of Wilson by Daniel Clowes. Wilson is the story of  ”an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else”. It is to be published by Drawn and Quarterly making him the newest member of the D and Q family. Preview the pages of Wilson here.