Archive for May, 2007
Cross Hatch Dispatch 5/31/2007
This was definitely a Rip Van Winkle week for me, so why don’t we get caught up a little?
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Shadowland by Kim Deitch
Shadowland
By Kim Deitch
Fantagraphics
No one layers a story quite like Kim Deitch. Even with the highly fashionable tendency of the past decade, or so of centering plot lines around the intersecting existences of a half-dozen protagonists, Deitch’s consistent parade of new characters, levels, and twists would almost certainly translate into a jumbled, if entertaining mess. The [...]
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Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz
By Peter Kuper
Crown Books
Thirteen years is a long time in the life of a cartoonist. For most sequential artists weaned on Mad Magazine, Batman, and old Looney Tunes shorts, attention spans for a single project rarely exceed the year mark. Peter Kuper, on the other hand, readily [...]
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All good visiting professorships, it seems, must come to an end. And seeing as how we forgot to sell ads this month, and therefore can’t offer Professor Brunetti anything in the way of tenure, beyond good vibes, high fives, and the satisfaction of a job well done, we’ll have to bid adieu to the good [...]
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Like most great artists, Craig Thompson is almost certainly his harshest critic. Where most of would be, at least somewhat self-congratulatory in the wake of what was, by just about every conceivable account, the massive success of his 540-page autobiographical sophomore effort, Blankets, Thompson has put his nose back to the drawing board, in and [...]
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For Aaron Renier, building a submarine is an ongoing process. There are a lot of things to consider: design, parts—and of course, at some point, you’ve got to make sure that the damn thing floats.
His 2005 release, Spiral-Bound, Renier suggests, was not a submarine. At 178 pages, it was not massive, but was still quite [...]
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Guest Strip: Paige Braddock
How great is Paige Braddock? Not only did she take the time out of her work day as the licensing supremo at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates to do an interview with us (the evidence is here and here), not only did she send us an early copy (one she ran off at Kinkos herself) [...]
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Tales to Demolish, Issues 1-3
Eric Haven
Sparkplug Comic Books
Memories from my childhood run almost like a TV Guide of sci-fi television programming. Because of this, please trust my estimation that any story from Eric Haven’s Tales to Demolish would substitute nicely for an episode of the Outer Limits.
Science fiction, conspiracy theory and horror provide a thin [...]
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Guest Strip: MariNaomi
MariNaomi is a cool lady. She lives in San Francisco, draws comic books, and managed to squeeze two names into the space of one, a feat that has long alluded everyone from Cher to Yanni.
Best, of all, MariNaomi agreed to hook us up with some artwork drawn specifically for us, which pretty much makes her [...]
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Named for the comic character named for the Norse god, K. Thor Jensen made his graphic novel debut with Red Eye, Black Eye, earlier this year, after a good 15 years spent drawing strips for alternative weeklies, graphic anthologies, and Web publisher, Serializer.
The book is one of the most sullen travelogues ever commented to [...]
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