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John M. Burns, 1938-2023Artist self-portrait. Attempting to summarize the career of John M. Burns, who died on December 29, seems impossible. The man had been...
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Jean-Christophe Menu: On L’Association, the State of French Comics, and His Return As a PublisherJean-Christophe Menu on the move in Brittany, France, circa 2002. Photo by Zab from Munographie (Éditions de l'An 2, 2004)....
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You’re My January Friend – This Week’s Links…and we’re back - staggering bleary-eyed and blinking into the new year, still not fully sure what day it is, when it’s necessary to know such...
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A Book Report from Thought Bubble 2023This past November I managed for the third time to venture out to that most United of Kingdoms, the land of exports such as “tea (derogatory)” and...
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Innocent Omnibus Vol. 1Innocent is a seinen manga by Shin’ichi Sakamoto about a really hot sadist who is constantly crying because he doesn’t like doing sadism. But...
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The Great BeyondManel Naher–the Manel Naher we get to know, anyway–isn’t interested in fame. She haunts bookstores in the huge, noisy metropolis in which she...
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The Best of 2023, as Decreed by Our ContributorsAs is our compulsion, we polled contributors to this website (and a few others) with a very broad question requiring no particular answer: "What...
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Deep Pan, Crisp, and Even – This Week’s LinksWell, barring one of the major publishers suddenly deciding that, actually, comics will be printed on edible paper from now on (still better...
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Children of the Black Sun #1-4Though exerting a profound influence in hindsight, the then-groundbreaking Stray Toasters by Bill Sienkiewicz nowadays offers some belligerent...
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Roger Hill, Early Comics Fan, Historian and Scholar, Dies at 75Roger Hill with his book on Reed Crandall, 2017. Very sad news: historian, collector, comic art restorer, and author Roger Allen Hill...
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Nemesis the Warlock – The Definitive Edition Vol. 1So perhaps, dear heart, we shall begin at the most logical place: imagine with me the sensation of a great steel pike impaling itself on your...
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Teddy Bears and Ink: Joakim PirinenJoakim Pirinen in his studio in Stockholm. Photo by Robert Aman. Imagine George H. W. Bush referring to Bill Clinton as the White House’s...
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Ian Gibson, 1946-2023An early sketch of Halo Jones, the most famous creation of the late artist Ian Gibson. His son, Luke Jon Gibson, has launched a GoFundMe...
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Nate Garcia is America’s CowboyINTRODUCTION Nate Garcia arrives at my apartment at 1:30 sharp, his face bedecked with a strap-on corpse mask. He and his partner,...
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Turkey I’m On Your Side – This Week’s LinksStaggering to 2023’s home plate, one more links round-up left after this, below, of what has been a very long year, squinting exhaustedly at a...
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Fiends of the Eastern FrontGerry Finley-Day is an odd specimen from the stable of the original 2000 AD writers. Hugely important, of course. When Rebellion held their...
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Arrivals and Departures – December 2023'Tis the season of giving, so here are four new comic reviews! (We have a strict no-return policy.) This month is also my first foray into a...
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Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History“The only place where Negroes did not revolt is in the pages of capitalist historians.” -C. L. R. James, “Revolution and the Negro,” New...
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A Hard Rain Fell on Lucca Comics & Games 2023At the end of October, around the time we realized that this year’s edition of Lucca Comics & Games was going to be soaked by rain after a long...
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The Ikegami Ryōichi Spider-Man Interview“Ikegami Ryōichi intabyū” From Ikegami Ryōichi and Hirai Kazumasa, Supaidāman Volume 5, (Tokyo: Media Factory, 2002), pgs. 317-321 (interviewer...
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Watching PlutoWhen Pluto dropped on Netflix last month, not very many spectators were quite sure what to do with it. The project is an echo of an echo of an...
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As Dark As December – This Week’s LinksUsing a fishing pole to flip the number back to zero on the sign marked ‘days since a divisive figure upped sticks and moved all their...
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The Chromatic FantasyMy goodness, but what a gorgeous book! Sitting here, mulling over just how to begin a review, that’s the note my brain keeps thrumming. Pick up...
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Dan Leno: The First Living Person to Have a Comic Title in their NameDan Leno (1860–1904) was an inventive British music hall comedian from the late 1880s who had a knack for recognising an opportunity. He had his...
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Who Wrote the Boy Commandos?Of course, that is a loaded question. Myriad writers did over the years the series was published, beginning with creators Jack Kirby and Joe Simon...
