Archive for August, 2008
Children and God Vol. 1-2
by Kelly Clancy
Self-Published
I am like a pile of warmed butter for this series by Kelly Clancy. Children and God parallels the lives of people living in post-communist Central Asia and modern day Middle America. Through nearly imperceptible changes, Clancy transitions between vignettes that span time and space and paint [...]
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Tags: mini-comics, mini-comic, Kelly Clancy, Children and God
Released earlier this week by The New Press, Brown professor Paul Buhle’s Jews in American Comics could have easily been yet another rehash of a long line of academic treatises on the subject of Jewish-American involvement in the creation of the superhero, most recently exemplified by Danny Fingeroth’s Superman Disguised as Clark Kent.
Fortunately for us, [...]
Filed under: Interviews | 2 Comments
Tags: Robert Crumb, comics, Art Spiegelman, Bill Griffith, Paul Buhle, Jews, Jewish, Mad Magazine, Harvey Kurtzman
Interview: Nate Powell Pt. 2
Swallow Me Whole is one of the year’s most powerful graphic meditations on both adolesence and mental disorder. Author Nate Powell walks a tightrope between imagination and hallucination for the duration of the book, effectively generating as many questions as he attempts to answer, a method that is frustrating, to be sure, but also imbues [...]
Filed under: Interviews | 3 Comments
Tags: Arkansas, autism, Donnie Darko, Nate Powell, schizophrenia, Swallow Me Whole, Top Shelf
Cory Doctorow Pt. 2 [of 2]
Cory Doctorow’s direct involvement with the comics world is a relatively recent occurrence, beginning earlier in the year, when the author leant a number of his works to IDW, for sequential adaptations. Few people in his position, however, have proven quite so vocal and articulate about issues of free speech, the blogger and sci-fi novelist [...]
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Tags: Boing Boing, CBLDF, Cory Doctorow, DJ Spooky, fanficton, First Amendment, Little Brother
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Sometimes these little accidents work out for the best. Three months after he was originally scheduled to appear in New York City, science fiction novelist, Boing Boing staffer, and, of course, staunch defender of all things First Amendment, Cory Doctorow finally found himself on the subterranean at Manhattan’s Helen [...]
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Interview: Nate Powell Pt. 1
Swallow Me Whole caught me off-guard. I was largely unfamiliar with Nate Powell’s work when I first picked up the Top Shelf book, and as such, didn’t have particularly high hopes, beyond his very clear talents as an artist.
More than just a standard tale of a brother and sister growing up in a southern town, [...]
Filed under: Reviews | 6 Comments
Tags: Arkansas, autism, Donnie Darko, Nate Powell, schizophrenia, Swallow Me Whole, Top Shelf
Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
Burma Chronicles
By Guy Delisle
Drawn & Quarterly
If there’s a major complaint to be levied against Guy Delisle’s new book, it’s a simple matter of unfortunate timing. When the Myanmar’s government was reluctantly thrust into the world’s spotlight by outrightly refusing aid following the devastating effects of Cyclone Nargis, many US residents were sadly left to our [...]
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Tags: Burma, Burma Chronicles, Drawn & Quartely, Guy Delisle, Myanmar
[Above, Doctorow poses as the XKCD version of himself, as found on Flickr.]
Three months after originally scheduled, Cory Doctorow will finally be landing in New York City this week, to hold court at a benefit for those tireless champions of First Amendment rights in the sequential art world, The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The [...]
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Tags: Cory Doctorow, DJ Spooky, CBLDF, Boing Boing, Little Brother, First Amendment
The final story in the latest issue of Lucky stands quietly aside from the rest of the book. “When I Was Eleven” follows the story of a young Gabrielle Bell so enamored with her experiences in summer camp the year before that she steals away from the day to day grinds that come with being [...]
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Tags: Gabrielle Bell, Lucky Drawn & Quartely, Joe Matt
