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These fragments I have shored against my ruinsA compendium of short reviews on the occasion of the writer's birthday. * * * John's Worth , by Jon Chandler. Published by Breakdown...
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Joe Kessler and The Gull YettinLondon-based Joe Kessler makes sophisticated and emotionally striking comics that appear to be created by a visceral performance of...
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Premium Rush – This Week’s LinksI’ll likely be amidships on a ferry when this week’s selection of links, to be found below, goes live, so please picture me gazing out at the...
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Rachel Pollack, 1945-2023Rachel Pollack, pictured with latter-day editor and writing collaborator Joseph Corallo. Photo by Glenn Hauman. On April 7, 2023, the...
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Gospel #1-5It is perhaps some manner of consolation to imagine that contemporary political controversies shall appear as quaint to the world 500 years hence...
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Black Cat ComicsThere are two states of Utah, each vying with the other for supremacy in the prevailing cultural stereotype. The first (which, it must...
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Ed Koren: An AppreciationAt the soul of Ed Koren's work is soul. Our sharpest satirists hold the world (or specific aspects of our world) in sharp contempt. Koren, who...
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“My Imperative Was To Get My Family Through This”: Catching up with Stephen R. BissetteStephen R. Bissette at Boston University's Stone Gallery in March 2023. Photo by Marjory Bissette, caricature by Joel Christian Gill. In...
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Trust The Fungus – This Week’s LinksIt’s fully spring here in Olde London Towne, so picture me writing this from a pub beer garden, doggedly refusing to admit that it’s still far...
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WILD! Vol. 1: Or So I Was Born To BeWell paint me pink and call me silly, for some odd reason I guess I thought roller derby as we play it now was a more recent invention. Apparently...
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Three Comix and Reflections ThereonThe Essential Spread Love Comix . Uncle Gil, ed. ( Spread Love , 2022). A-Men . Characters and story by Scott Kraynack & Gary Dunn...
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Al Jaffee, 1921-2023Jaffee at a 2014 exhibition of his work at the Scott Eder Gallery in Brooklyn. Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz. The world’s longest cartooning...
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“It’s Like Putting Together A Puzzle”: An Interview With Daria TesslerDaria Tessler's preferred author photo. Reading Daria Tessler ’s mesmerizing book Cult of the Ibis last summer was a revelation....
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And Now I’m Fourteen Stories High – This Week’s LinksAnd so I head into a 4 day weekend, once more having forgotten to make plans, always forgetting to make plans, as my Easters are no longer...
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The Ruins of Space Battleship Yamato: An Essay on Matsumoto Leiji and WarExcerpted from Natsume Fusanosuke, Manga to “sensō” (Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 1997), pp. 108-113. Translators' Introduction We...
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20th Century Men #1-6Deniz Camp had a very good 2022. This realization came upon me all of a sudden, as I realized he had launched and was writing, more-or-less...
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Mile High ComicsIf you were a Marvel Comics fan from a certain era, you will recognize the ads on sight: a two-page wall of typewritten text, filled...
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A Very British Affair: The Best of Classic Romance ComicsI'll readily admit this much: until I opened the book, I'd never heard of most of the dozens of creators featured in A Very British Affair: The...
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Joe Giella, June 27, 1928 – March 21, 2023In recognition of his decades of charity work and his contribution to the comic book arts, the Hero Initiative presented Joe Giella with their...
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Fantasy Baseball: Gina Wynbrandt and the Making of a Meme.405 batting average. 4 home runs. 10 RBIs. 3 stolen bases. That was Seattle Mariners left fielder Jarred Kelenic’s dominant Spring Training...
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Complete Global Saturation – This Week’s LinksAh, spring is finally here, and I can watch the parakeets (emphatically not released by Jimi Hendrix ) eating blossom off the...
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“Stories Can Live On Their Own”: An Introduction to, and Exploration of, MMYOPEIn 2021, a New York-based entity calling itself MMYOPE published three handsomely-formatted books in relatively quick succession: NYC TAP/I’m...
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Seven Sons #1-7Shall we then, at last, discuss Jae Lee? He’s been around for a fair while, our Mr. Lee. He started really young - not even 20 years old when he...
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Cartoon Networking: A New Cartoonist Cooperative is the Latest Group of Creators to Seek Strength in NumbersOver the past few weeks, as the members of Comic Book Workers United at Image Comics took their latest step forward on the path toward...
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I’m a CopOur first image is a body bathed in the shadow of a police officer. The body is lifeless, and its ankles are slouched to suggest that this person...
