Daniel Robert Epstein: Tijuana Bibles author Bob Adelman

wait, but what does this have to do with The Life Aquatic?

Wow, i have a copy of the first printing...cool interview.



Seriously, though...who does Adelman play in The Life Aquatic?

Oh man....I used to have one of those but it got destroyed. Oldschool book with things like the fuller brush man, popeye and olive oyle, and the guy from the popeye cartoons that eats all the hamburgers among others.

hmm... girl on girl mickey fucking minnie photoset.... mouse ears are hot.

That's really cool. I'm going to have to buy that book.

I hadn't heard of the Tijuana Bibles until this year, actually. I was taking a class about comic book literature and it came up during the reading of Watchmen that Alan Moore was making reference to them in a couple of panels, where Sally Jupiter had the little "Silk Spectre" comic.

Art Spiegelman is one of my favorites, too. I'm interested in learning more about what these guys like so much about these little books.

wow! i had no idea there was a new collection. i first read about them in Comix, and got steadily more irate at the way the artists were treated like pariahs by the american legal system. i think its fantastic there is now a collection, but perhaps unfortunate that it seems to be packaged as a form of social history rather than a mode of subversion enjoying a new lease of life.