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Armed with Madness: The Surreal Leonora CarringtonThis is a beautiful book, though let the use of the "Surreal" in the subtitle be a warning - it is not always easy to understand. Its opening page...
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“You Don’t Need Permission”: An Interview with Lawrence LindellLawrence Lindell with a copy of Blackward . When I first came across Lawrence Lindell ’s self-published minicomics a few years ago, I...
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November Has Come – This Week’s LinksThe penultimate month of the Gregorian calendar year arrives, and with it the first smattering of end of year lists, but more on those next...
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Viscere #1: Body HorrorAh, the human body, site of trauma both primal and picayune. Is there anything more annoying in all the world than having to take care of this...
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Adult Comics"Comics really are for adults now." -Carson Grubaugh, in his “Afterword” to The Abolition of Man #5 (Feb. 2023) The Abolition of Man...
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The Keith Giffen TributePanel from Action Comics #646 (Oct. 1989); pencils and plot by Keith Giffen, script by Roger Stern, inks by Dennis Janke, colors by Glenn...
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Martine Moon #1When they'd just started, Panel Syndicate 1 was touted by some as the future of comics. This was in 2013, so I guess that now makes them...
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Keith Giffen, November 30, 1952 – October 9, 2023Keith Giffen, a man of wealth and taste, enjoys high tea in 2019. Photograph courtesy of Colleen Doran, used with permission. Prolific and...
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“This Book Is About My Hatred Of Chaos”: Daniel Clowes on MonicaChaos and confusion run rampant throughout Monica . WARNING: This interview contains MANY spoilers!! Since its release at the beginning...
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Lost in the Shadows – This Week’s LinksAnother All Hallows' Eve approaches here in the UK, with Guy Fawkes Night following hot on its heels, so, along with this week’s links, below,...
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The Naked TreeAs in her previous release with Drawn & Quarterly, The Waiting (2021), Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s The Naked Tree continues her exploration of the...
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Weird Work #1-4Time again it is to check on the progress of one Mr. Shaky Kane, artist of the strange. He’s back with a new project: it’s called Weird Work ....
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Do a Powerbomb!I’m not really a wrestling guy. I’m not mad at it, I don’t look down on the sport or its fans, I’m not into nerd-on-nerd hate. I’m just not a...
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Reports from the ShortBox Comics FairFor the third year in a row, UK small press force ShortBox has organized its ShortBox Comics Fair , a month-long extension of its conventional...
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Inside the Canada Comics Open Library with Rotem Anna Diamant & Jordan Reg. AelickThe Canada Comics Open Library (CCOL) is a volunteer-run library and community space for comics in Toronto. It also hosts comics artist...
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These Are The Damned – This Week’s LinksI am deep into a bout of novel b-coronavirus sars-cov-2, which I didn’t even have the good grace of attending a comic convention to contract, so...
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Jack Kirby’s Starr Warriors: The Adventures of Adam Starr and the Solar LegionEveryone has to start somewhere, so they say. Not me, of course, I sprang fully formed from the head of Zeus. But yes, even Jack Kirby was just...
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The Cartoonist and the Paint LadyBEFORE CREATING TERRY AND THE PIRATES , MILTON CANIFF FREELANCED FOR THE NATIONAL PAINT, VARNISH AND LACQUER ASSOCIATION. Milton Caniff...
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I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan LeeBy the lights of industry myth-making, it is Tom Scioli’s deep affinity for the work of Jack Kirby that makes him a fit to produce I Am Stan: A...
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Cheat SheetsDespite the dominance of Japanese manga on comics worldwide, Americans can still take pride in having planted the initial seeds. Osamu Tezuka was...
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“Boy Am I Glad I’m Not In This Business”: Catching up with Larry MarderLarry Marder, photographed by himself. Larry Marder, the industry mainstay once referred to in his Tales of the Beanworld series as the...
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DJ Please, Pick Up Your Phone – This Week’s LinksOne of the year’s final mega-conventions looms this weekend, as New York Comic Con returns for a 2023 edition, just as news arrives that a...
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The Structure of Expressions in Manga“Hyōgen no kōzō” Chapter 6 from Manga wa naze omoshiroi no ka: sono hyōgen to bunpō ( Why Is Manga So Interesting? Its Expression and Grammar...
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A Trial Death and Other StoriesOne fine day an email appeared from my editor, asking if I remembered Glenn Dakin . “Why, that old salt?” I roared into an empty room. Of course...
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Monica*SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* I will begin by discussing a golden classic from the good old days: "MCMLXVI" (or "1966"), from Eightball #16...
