Carson Mell has been making some of my favorite animated shorts of the past ten years. I met him years ago and about a year later picked up first issue of Wholphin, a DVD magazine that McSweeney’s puts out, his film The Writer, stole the show and I’ve been hooked ever since. His work is like a colorized Charles Burns, book but funnier.
Start with Saguaro, an excerpt from his novel about Bobby Bird, a country music star whose rose and fell from stardom and wants to tell you all about it. From there check out The Devil in Denim and Chonto, they are short films based on the book. From there the rest is up to you and there’s lots to see and hear.
The fine people of McSweeney’s are going to be releasing a special Sunday edition sized newspaper for their latest issue entitled the San Francisco Panarama. Expanding on the theme of a Sunday paper, there will be articles on current events related to the day of its release, sports coverage, comics from artists like Eric Larsen, and even a weekend guide to boot.
I’ll be jumping straight to the Food section, which they have described as “possibly, seriously, the best food section that has ever appeared in any newspaper anywhere, with an incredible modular ramen recipe from New York’s own David Chang and a fifty-eight-step lamb-belly photo essay from San Francisco’s Ryan Farr.” Available for sale in the streets of San Francisco and in bookstores next month.
