Archive for July, 2008
Neverland by Dave Kiersh
Neverland
by Dave Kiersh
Bodega
The artwork of Dave Kiersh is so distinctive, it would be an embarrassment for anyone else to try and mimic his style.
Just don’t judge a book by its cover. What you’ll find inside is more blackened, cross-hatched, smudged and labyrinthine than its cover would portend. Neverland is a complicated maze of shapes and [...]
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Tags: Bodega, Neverland, Dave Kiersch
PS Comics #4 by Minty Lewis
PS Comics #4
By Minty Lewis
Self-Published
Not all that much tends to happen in an issue of PS Comics. For a book that primarily alternates between the exploits of anthropomorphic animals and talking produce, Minty Lewis’s output is largely defined by a quiet understated quality, which gives the reader the distinct impression that—even as [...]
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Tags: Melanie Lewis, Minty Lewis, PS Comics
The Grand Re-Opening
By Sam Fellman and Kevin Cannon
Self-Published
At a thin eight pages, The Grand Re-Opening is more a meditation than anything else. With a script penned by Sam Fellman, a naval lieutenant serving in Iraq, the book wastes little time setting up a scene in the midst of that war-torn nation, and is over [...]
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Tags: Iraq, Kevin Cannon, Sam Fellman
Interview: Gabrielle Bell Pt. 1
In the decade or so since she first began distributing her work through the standard channels of black and white photocopied minis, Gabrielle Bell has fairly quickly become one of the more beloved autobiographical cartoonists in alternative comics, thanks in large part to her long-running, recently revived title, Lucky, which captures the life of a [...]
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Tags: Gabrielle Bell, Lucky Drawn & Quartely, Michel Gondry
The Tinderbox by Damien Jay
The Tinderbox
By Damien Jay [Adapted from a story by Hans Christian Andersen]
Self-Published
In modern America, the word “fairytale” has taken on an almost derisive meaning, immediately evoking images chalk full of genre cliché and the manner of unrealistic life expectations that come coupled with habitually happy endings. Those whose familiarity with the style extends beyond [...]
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Tags: Damien Jay, Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinderbox
Over the course of a professional career that has spanned some seven decades, Jules Feiffer has built a staggering body of work in a diverse array of mediums, including the theater, motion pictures, novels, and children’s books. But it’s the artist’s groundbreaking work in the world of political cartooning that really put him on the [...]
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Tags: Fantagraphics, Jules Feiffer, Village Voice, political cartoons
My Brain is Hanging Upside Down
By David Heatley
Pantheon
In a book defined by brutal honestly, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down has one moment that stands out as perhaps even more telling than the rest. On the final page of the first section, David Heatley picks up a copy of The Comics Journal that features an [...]
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Tags: David Heatley My Brain is Hangin Upside Down, Pantheon
Snake Pit 2007 by Ben Snakepit
Snake Pit 2007
By Ben Snakepit
Microcosm
Of all the many hats one must wear in order to execute an effective diary comic, perhaps none is more important than that of editor. Let’s be perfectly honest with ourselves here—most of us lead fairly dull, repetitive existences. The same thing applies to the vast majority of those who write [...]
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Tags: Ben Snakepit, Snake Pit, Microcosm, Punk
Chalk it up to the sophomore jinx, but the Second Annual Astoria Comic Con isn’t going quite so well as I had hoped. Sure there will be naysayers who insist that it has something to do with the fact that once again I stubbornly insisted on holding it the same weekend as the San Diego [...]
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Tags: Fantagraphics, Renee French, San Diego Comic Con, Jeff Smith, Evan Dorkin, Box Brown, Chris Duffy, Nickelodeon Magazine, Dean Haspiel, Sarah Morean, Mari Naomi, Aaron Renier, Eric Reynolds, Jeremy Tinder, Julia Wertz, Skip Williamson, David Yurkovich, Tony Millionaire, Liz Baillie, Tom Hart
Wormdye by Eamon Espey
Wormdye
By Eamon Espey
Secret Acres
It starts innocently enough—two grotesque twin boys shoving the pet cat into microwave at 30 seconds on Defrost. Take it as a warning sign from the author, right out of the gate—if these images disturb you, then now would be the ideal time to back out unscathed. Like a visual tour into [...]
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Tags: Eamon Espey, Secret Acres, Wormdye
