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Put aside that calculator for a moment and haul out your box of comic books. It’s time to file your Harvey Awards nominations! The awards might be set for September, but don’t let the late date fool you. The selection committee will need all spring and summer to get [...]

Will Vinton is one of those names that you likely don’t know too well, unless you’ve found yourself immersed in his specific field. His creations on the other hand, have become so ingrained in popular culture over the past twenty years, that the man’s work has been virtually impossible to escape.
Vinton has done all manner [...]

Fox Bunny Funny
By Andy Hartzell
Top Shelf
It’s always an achievement, in and of itself, when an artist can execute a cohesive and intelligible work of sequential art without the use of any text. It’s an admirable skill that newcomer Andy Hartzell executes with a surprising amount of ease and finesse, over the course of the three [...]

Army@Love
By Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine
Vertigo
Depending on how susceptible they are to Fox News, readers will doubtless either be shouting “Too soon, too soon!” or “Not soon enough, not soon enough!” when they’re assaulted by the premier issue of Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine’s sharp new black-humor comic from Vertigo, Army@Love. Veitch rubbishes the idea [...]

It Rhymes With Lust
By Arnold Drake, Leslie Waller, and Matt Baker
Darkhorse Press
Rust is the answer to that most obvious of questions. Rust Masson. The moral, if there’s any to be had, is, simply put: don’t go around messing with women named whose names rhyme with lust. It’s a lesson that takes newspaperman Hal Weber 120-odd [...]

Jim Woodring is alternative comics’ latest casualty. Despite the consistent brilliance of the artist’s work, throughout titles such as The Book of Jim and his most popular creation, Frank, Woodring is leaving the comics world behind—at least for the time being—instead focusing on his largely charcoal-based paintings, of the variety found in the recently released [...]

Journey into Mohawk Country
By Messrs Van den Bogaert & O’Connor
First Second Books
 
Lots of comics are collaborations between artists and writers who never actually meet face to face, communicating instead via e-mail and telephone. Probably not many artists get as few notes to work with, however, as George O’Connor did on his collaboration with writer Harmen [...]

In which members of the rock community tearfully reveal their geeky comic obsessions, beneath their hardened irony-based exoskeleton.

The greatest testament to Shannon Wheeler’s skills is the fact that the cartoonist has the uncanny ability to make you forget that you are reading a story about a guy wearing a coffee mug on his head. Some of this, no doubt has to do with the fact that, as far as superheroes go, Too [...]

Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil
By Jeff Smith
DC Comics
The world of superheroes deserves a good kick in the tights, every now and again. These days, such attempts are made by the boatload, by injecting risqué subject matter into the storylines of ancient heroes—gritty par for the course that has seemingly become nearly as worn as [...]