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The Devil Never SleepsToday I will write about recent comics by French artists in furtherance of my election campaign for President of the United States of America....
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“Go Bleed On That Page, Hero!”: The Tradd Moore InterviewUnlettered interior art from Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #4 (Apr. 2023). Colored by Heather Moore. A Tradd Moore drawing can be an...
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Goodbye Reason, Goodbye Rhyme – This Week’s LinksAnd so we arrive at the Godhead once more, as another San Diego Comic Con, already in progress at the time of writing, arrives to bring comics...
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Remembering Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. Photo courtesy of Bud Plant. My interest in comic books and their creators, and in magazine and book illustration, has...
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Prism Stalker: The Weeping StarOur story today begins many, many months ago. In response to comments that my reviews were skewing too mainstream, I set out a call on social...
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“This Elusive Quality”: Moby-Dick on the Comics PageAndrew Delbanco’s biography of Herman Melville, Melville: His World and Work , opens with a long set of excerpts from various texts, referring...
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Dialogue Balloons: Language and ConstraintJason is chasing that strange alchemy of words and pictures, and with him is cartoonist Oliver East and illustrator/philosopher Helen De Cruz....
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Family Style: Memories of an American from VietnamImage courtesy First Second / Thien Pham. What forces bind us together? Are they biological, cultural, shared experiences? Are they forces...
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City of Glass: It Was a Phone Call That Started ItNovember 9, 2013, at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. L-R: Paul Auster, Art Spiegelman, Bill Kartalopoulos, David Mazzucchelli....
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Our Summer Fling Is Over – This Week’s LinksCramming the curation of this week’s links, below, into the spare time available to me between cross-posting my thoughts regarding day-to-day...
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The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell (coupled with) The Fate of the ArtistI consider myself to be a reasonable person. In hindsight, reasonable people can chuckle at the boob shouting “ Judas! ” at Bob Dylan from the...
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Night FeverA man reads the manuscript to a book slated for publication, and encounters an image familiar to him. It's from a recurring dream of the book's...
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Dear Mini: Natalie Norris On Her First BookNatalie Norris started a diary at age 10. Come middle school, she began regularly documenting her life, and never stopped. “I think it...
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Slava: After The FallA new work from Pierre-Henry Gomont is always a pleasure. After the fumblings of resurrecting a family estate in deepest Africa in Malaterre and...
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Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., 1946-2023Vadeboncoeur circa 1971. Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., a popular historian and passionate collector, passed away last Friday, July 7, from...
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Comics for Prisoners: A RoundtableBlack ballpoint pen on paper art by Juan Castro. Image courtesy of Prison Book Program. Introduction In September 2019, the human...
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Light and Tuneful – This Week’s LinksWe’re into that block of the comics calendar year where everything is clumped together into ‘hold for build up to San Diego Comic Con, boy...
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That Brilliant BreakingWhere to begin? Perhaps a frank admission on the critic’s part, to serve as a premise to get underway? I’m deathly afraid of sex. That’s why I...
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Memories of the “Live-in Age”: Hayashi Sei’ichi’s and Kamimura Kazuo’s Dōsei Manga“Yojōhan-teki ai no nikogori: Kamimura Kazuo, Dōsei jidai ” and “Raritta ano ko to hatsu-dēto: Hayashi Sei’ichi, Sekishoku erejī ” From...
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Wolverine: Snikt!Twenty years ago, the Marvel Universe felt like a larger place. This is not a comment on the comics themselves—by now I suspect I can no longer be...
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Dreamers & Make-BelieversThe first thing you hear when you phone up Dreamers & Make-Believers in Baltimore, Maryland is an automated message asking where to...
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Inside the Giant Fish“The first beach resort built in Jiyeh faces our house. From then on, we were denied entry to the shore.” Rawand Issa’s memoir-inflected comic...
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“A Simple Story Done Bombastically”: James Stokoe on Orphan and the Five BeastsAll images in this post from Orphan and the Five Beasts . James Stokoe has spread his unmistakable style across the world of comics, from...
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Had A Summer Job Breaking and Entering – This Week’s LinksOn the one hand, it is too hot and humid to function as a normal human being without ending up looking like Senator Robert Kelly,...
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Minami’s LoverMinami-kun no Koibito originally ran from October 1986 to June 1987 in the magazine Garo . That this overlaps with the original run of...
