Archive for August, 2008
It is, of course, always a pleasure to return to Love & Rockets, even if things have changed a deal since the last time we were allowed to visit. Jaime Hernandez’s half of the first issue in the book’s rebirth as an annual—which sandwiches Gilbert’s more fractured, but largely familiar contributions—reintroduces a few familiar characters [...]
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Tags: Fantagraphics, Jaime Hernandez, Locas, Love & Rockets
Pockmarked Apocalypse #1
by Jeff Lok
American Stronghold
There’s something funny about the Center for Cartooning Studies. What others might call a book, a project, or even more accurately a portfolio, CCS dubs a thesis. A thesis? Really?
Completion of the CCS thesis does not require research or compare/contrast methodology, like so many theses before it. There is [...]
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Tags: mini-comics, Jeff Lok, Center for Cartooning Studies, CCS, Pockmarked Apocalypse
Little Things by Jeffrey Brown
Little Things
By Jeffrey Brown
Touchstone
Jeffrey Brown’s stories tend to defy convention. He’s a fantastic storyteller, and much of his strength lies in the way he foregoes the need for set ups and finite endings. In his world, life is constantly moving, making it all one big middle.
Brown achieved fast fame with his debut graphic novel, Clumsy, [...]
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Tags: Jeffrey Brown
The Cross Hatch Dispatch 8/12/08
[Above, baggin’ on indie books. Below, the portable Dispatch.
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Tags: Adriane Tomine, Art Spiegelman, CBLDF, Cory Doctorow, DJ Spooky, Jeff Lemire, Top Shelf
In this third part of our interview with Gabrielle Bell, we discuss the artist’s burgeoning solo career, years of anthology work, and the key differences between Lucky volumes one and two.
[Part One][Part Two]
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Tags: Gabrielle Bell, Lucky Drawn & Quartely, Michel Gondry
There’s part of me that felt a bit strange discussing the merits of superhero books with Jaime Hernandez. Sure the subject has come up with plenty of indie creators, and certainly artists like Jack Kirby are obligatorily rattled off when discussing Hernandez’s artwork, but the artist, who, along with his brother and longtime co-conspirator, Gilbert [...]
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Tags: Batman, Fantagraphics, Jaime Hernandez, Locas, Love & Rockets
Where Demented Wented Book Release
Desert Island Comics, Brooklyn, NY 8/8/08
[Gary Panter, Bill Griffith]
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“This is the largest crowd that Rory’s ever had,” laughed Bill Griffith, only half-jokingly. Desert Island Comics was packed Friday night, in joint celebration of Fantagraphics’ upcoming Rory Hayes anthology, Where Demented [...]
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Tags: Robert Crumb, Fantagraphics, Gary Panter, Art Spiegelman, Rory Hayes, S. Clay Wilson, Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith, Dan Nadel, Picturebox, Desert Island
The Heroic Mosh of Mary’s Son
By Malcy Duff
Malcy Duff’s an excellent creator-one of Britain’s leading comics artists-and this book show’s him at the top of his game. He won’t appeal to everyone-he’s one of our more avant-garde creators. Anyone who can spend 16, nine-panel pages hypnotising us with a character moshing to his stereo deserves [...]
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Tags: Malcy Duff, The Heroic Mosh of Mary's Son
Fatal Faux-Pas
by Samuel C. Gaskin
Secret Acres
‘Maybe I shouldn’t review this,’ I thought for a month. ‘Sam Gaskin is ripping off a lot of people. He could get into some trouble.’ However, it’s all done in the spirit of parody, so give the guy a break.
The title alone is a Faux pas. There’s no dash in [...]
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Tags: Fatal Faux-Pas, gag comics, Samuel Gaskin, Secret Acres
Bellen No. 5: Happiness is an Elusive Bastard
By Box Brown
Self-Published
Love has wrought some horrible things in the world of sequential art. Without unwavering explorations into the emotion, the form would be robbed of such groundbreaking works as The Family Circus, Ziggy, and, of course, Love is… Absent these essential entries into the canon, it’s hard [...]
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Tags: Bellen, Brian Brown Box Brown
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