We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Fabulas Panicas comics are surreal, goofy, and never less than gorgeous. The Chilean artist’s strips from the late 1960s have been scanned and collected here for your browsing pleasure.

The comics cover such topics as ambitious microbes, bearded dudes, anthropomorphism, love, ferocious lions and trees— a wide range but to be expected from a comic book writer who also happens to be a scholar, mime, actor, composer and psychotherapist!

Ahoy! Looks like the new issue of our favorite art journal is out. It’s Nice That Issue #3 is 128 pages of brainy, eye-popping fun. Numero tres includes interviews with photographer Dan Tobin Smith, a feature called “Graphics vs. Poetry” by WLYS fave Geoff McFetridge, work by Adam Voorhes and Taizo Yamamoto (among others), and an interview with the esteemed graphic designer Milton Glaser (AWESOME.)

As eternal students of the creative process, we’re equally charmed by the Flickr set documenting each step of Issue #3’s production.

Three cheers to Will Hudson, Alex Bec, Florencia Soto and the rest of the team for their impressive contribution to bookshelves everywhere. Y’all should get your orders in swiftly!

In an age when the print media appears to be coughing its final loogies into a bloody handkerchief, it is worth paying attention to the few magazines that stick around. For a print publication to do well in this freaky climate is no small feat, and n+1 is not only alive, but practically fist-pumping.

If you’re not familiar with the magazine, it can be summed up as a controversial and whip-smart journal of everything that might matter to the contemporary young man or woman: video games, the internet, sex, zombie novels, avant garde food, narcoterrorism in Mexico, parties in Miami, cave painting, hedge funds, and more. Contributors include WLYS favorite Sam Lipsyte (whom we covered here), Benjamin Kunkel, Juan Villoro and more.

The newest issue is hot off the press, and we recommend nabbing a copy before it sells out!

Jean Jullien’s work is joyous and wide-ranging. There’s the illustration, for one thing, not to mention the videos, costumes, installations, books and posters. This might be old news to you—the guy IS, after all, pretty famous— but what about his diary? Have you seen that?

If not, get on it! Jullien posts prodigious excerpts online from the notebook he fills with daily writings and drawings. Browsing the scans is like flipping through the sketchbook/journal of a 21st-century polymath. It’s an easy and efficient way to get your daily requirement of RAD.

Long-lost astronauts, homicidal bloggers, baseball legends and wayward skaters all find a home in John Pham’s captivating comic series Sublife (published by the always on-point Fantagraphics Books). With only two issues on the street, Sublife has already established an achingly familiar universe in all of its disparate ongoing narratives. Deftly juggling the melancholy of Adrian Tomine’s Optic Nerve with some Cormac McCarthy-inspired apocalyptic action and plenty of skillfully subdued deadpan humor, Pham proves himself a master of multifarious emotions and artist stylings.

Giant Robot 2 is hosting a solo show of Pham’s gorgeously vibrant gouache paintings this weekend, entitled Living Space. Go check it out, and do yourself the favor of picking up a copy of Sublife.

Something amazing is brewing in NYC. In case you haven’t heard some of the folks that help make WLYS real are helping to make this real as well : a new live events/gallery space will be opening at 70 Franklin St. in Tribeca from April 8th-May 7th. There’s also a pretty killer site to go along with it, to help document the entire process. Go explore!

As Above So Below is a book by Will Sweeney recently published by Nieves. Sweeney describes the book as “a visual narrative based on a series of randomly selected photographs from my collection of National Geographic Magazine dating between 1940 and the present day.”

Its creation involved random number-generations, a Corsican pagan tomb, a street market in Hong Kong and more. The book’s title derives from medieval hermetic philosophy and relates, according to the author, to the alchemical relationship between microcosm (the body) and macrocosm (the universe).

Well, there’s nothing better than artfully-expressed mysticism and subconscious journeying! As Above So Below is that rare project with rewards that are visual, conceptual, and possibly even metaphysical.

Shaun O’Dell makes videos, music, drawings and sculpture with crazy-skilled draughtsmanship and a body of references that ranges from Moby Dick to Gulliver’s Travels. He’s a smart and spare artist, with works that invite exegesis the way that, well, Herman Melville and Jonathan Swift do. You could spend a long time with O’Dell’s work and find something new every time.

German photographer Daniel Augschöll is a young master of the scenic. Whether he’s capturing the weightless beauty of light dabbled on a grove of trees or a serenely quiet car frosted over with morning dew, his work is intrinsically linked to the landscape. Naturally, nature seems to be the visual theme underlying the online magazine he edits with Anya Jasbar, Ahorn. The newly released 5th issue of this carefully curated portfolio of photographers from across the globe is brimming with beautiful work ruminating on the intersection of human shelter and the organic.