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Arrivals and Departures – October 2023Here we are in October, the scaaaaary month. I’m personally not much of a huge fan of spooky comics other than by one particular artist who’s...
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Poor Helpless Comics! The Cartoons (and More) of Ed SubitzkyTime teaches us patience, if we’re so fortunate, and encourages a longer, more intentional look at things we might have skimmed or scorned in our...
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“Something As Bland As Possible”: The Making of Sunday, with Olivier SchrauwenThe four issues of Sunday , published by Colorama Books (following a self-published edition of the first issue). Note that while Sunday 1...
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Walk Without Rhythm – This Week’s LinksIt is Banned Books Week, and if you are a regular peruser of this week’s links, a selection of which can be found below, then you’ll likely know...
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Strange Planet and the Instagram MainstreamInstagram comics are an emerging field of comic art, and one of the (if not the) mostly widely consumed types of comics in American culture,...
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XINO #1-3You know what I love? I love anthologies. You know what doesn’t sell? Yep, you guessed it . It is a structural shortcoming of the direct market...
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Strong Men Also Cry: The Tom Strong CompendiumTom Strong , collected again in DC’s new "Compendium" format, 1 is a clever thing. The 36-issue tome is more proof of the conceptual...
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Scenes from a Marriage: Fujiwara Maki and Tsuge YoshiharuA husband and wife who are both composers: how do you envisage that? Such a strange relationship between rivals: do you have any idea how...
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AlisonLizzy Stewart ’s graphic novel (or perhaps “illustrated text,” as Stewart refers to it in the acknowledgments) recounts the life of Alison Porter...
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Flashback: Photos from SDCC 2023San Diego Comic-Con International 2023, San Diego Convention Center. Because of the Hollywood writers' and actors' strike, comics were the...
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Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe“Oh, Mr. Block, you were born by mistake, You take the cake. You make me ache. Tie a rock to your block and jump in the lake. Kindly do...
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“If They Know What To Expect, Then I’m Just A Can Of Campbell’s Soup”: Matt Wagner Reflects on Finishing Mage, Returning to Grendel, and What Comes NextMy brush with comic book celebrity came when I was 17 years old. We were a month into our AP English class at a high school outside of...
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The King Stay The King – This Week’s LinksAs the dust settles from the Writers’ Guild of America winning important concessions from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television...
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ParasocialWell, my goodness, have I never said anything on the subject of Erica Henderson? What a tremendous oversight! Allow me to state now, for the...
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Married to Comics: A Powerful Film About the Lives of Justin Green and Carol TylerCarol Tyler and Justin Green at the Ink Farm in Augusta, Kentucky. From Married to Comics . Photo © and courtesy of John Kinhart. "Most...
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Haze CaveHaze Cave is a comic of urban contemplation - drawn in texture, like breathing in the downtown core. Pigao works in deep and subtle charcoals, a...
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Remembering Joe MattWhat follows is a collection of tributes to the cartoonist Joe Matt, who died earlier this month at the age of 60. Longtime friends mingle with...
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Joe Matt Dies at 60Joe Matt in San Francisco, 2019. Photo by Christopher Anthony Diaz, used with permission. Sixty-year-old alternative cartoonist Joe Matt...
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Work and Pleasure: Diana Schutz, TodayArt by Brennan Wagner. Click any image to enlarge. Among the new inductees to the Will Eisner Hall of Fame this past July, one surely...
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Dancin’ In September – This Week’s LinksThe quantum question of whether a particular title enters the public domain when its creator says it does, or whether that entry is...
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Otomo The Complete Works 1: Jūsei (JAPANESE EDITION)PLEASE NOTE : This is a Japanese-language book, published only in Japan, collecting the very earliest comics, including previously unpublished...
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The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World – Part TwoPART ONE IS HERE * * * "We're all art nuts. We're involved with Texas and Japanese esthetics and primitive art. There's also Cubism,...
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20 km/hA word for Woshibai , then, author of the new collection 20 km/h , the latest Chinese import from Drawn & Quarterly - "anonymous" and...
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X-Amount of Comics: 1963 (WhenElse?!) Annual!Revenge being best served at the temperature of the sun, Don Simpson's X-Amount of Comics arcs inwards like a flammable contraption lashed...
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Keeping MAD Alive: A Look at ClaptrapAll art throughout by Tom Richmond. Writing by Desmond Devlin. "Dirty Larry." "Flashdunce." "Appalling 13." Those are just some of the...
