Archive for October, 2008
After nearly a decade of sporadic releases, Tales from the Beanworld ceased publication in 1993. Since then, the series’ creator Larry Marder has kept himself fairly busy, first as the executive director of Image Comics and then as the president of McFarlane Toys, a role he held for almost eight years.
In 2007, Marder quit his [...]
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Tags: Beanworld, Dark Horse, Image Comics, Larry Marder, Todd MacFarlane
XO #1-3
by Brian John Mitchell and Melissa Spence Gardner
Silber Media
Format can do a lot to influence the attractiveness of a book, but even unique and unexpected styles of bookmaking can blend in at big conventions like MoCCA or APE. However, at a small Midwestern show like the Madison Zine Fest, unconventional books have a chance [...]
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Tags: mini-comics, xo, murder, small books, raleigh, Melissa Spence Gardner, Brian John Mitchell
Interview: Jesse Reklaw
Wake up in the morning with a dream you vaguely remember. Sit down at the breakfast table and open up the comics page to see your dream illustrated by Jesse Reklaw. Ha! You’re still dreaming. Maybe. Pinch yourself, and then get to the computer and type that illustrious vision into www.slowwave.com [...]
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Tags: Jesse Reklaw, Slow Wave
As a graduate of Mahattan’s School for the Visual Art who has been actively creating his own comics since middle school, it seems like a stretch, at best, to consider Dash Shaw an outsider artist, in spite of his penchant for non-traditional forms of graphic storytelling. Still, the Shaw argues that, in many cases, some [...]
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Tags: Body World, Bottomless Belly Button, Dash Shaw, Fantagraphics
The real impetus for the my discussion with Art Spiegelman was the upcoming release of Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!. First issued in 1977, the first incarnation of the book was an anthology of the artist’s pre-Maus (though, confusingly enough, the original edition carried the subtitle “From Maus to Now,” thanks [...]
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Tags: Art Spiegelman, Breakdowns, Fantagraphics, Jack and the Box, Maus, Pantheon, Raw, Toon Books
Fifteen years ago, Larry Marder was appointed the executive director of the upstart comic publisher, Image. After a half-dozen years in that role, he joined up with Image co-founder Todd MacFarlane, as the president of the Spawn creator’s action figure company, MacFarlane Toys, a position he maintained until last year.
An artist in his own right, [...]
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Tags: Beanworld, Dark Horse, Image Comics, Larry Marder, Todd MacFarlane
Interview: Theo Ellsworth
Theo Ellsworth pulls his book out of a manila envelope and sets it on the table. “Officially it went on sale October 6th–the day I came back.” Theo has just returned to Portland from the Small Press Expo in Maryland. His publisher, Secret Acres, brought him out there for the book release. [...]
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Tags: Secret Acres, Theo Ellsworth
“It’s a weird book,” says Dash Shaw, frankly, describing Bottomless Belly Button. The artist is delighted—if slightly baffled—about the book’s success. Soon after being release in June on Fantagraphics, the book was declared the graphic novel of the year but a number of fans and critics, with another six months still left until 2009.
Shaw’s own [...]
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Tags: Body World, Bottomless Belly Button, Dash Shaw, Fantagraphics
Interview: Art Spiegelman Pt. 3
No one’s ever accused Art Spiegelman of oversaturating the marketplace. In fact, one of the major criticisms levied against the artist has been his relatively meager output. Of course it’s never wise to rush an artist, but, in spite of years spent working for the New Yorker, the cartooning world had good reason to wonder [...]
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Tags: Art Spiegelman, Breakdowns, Fantagraphics, Jack and the Box, Maus, Pantheon, Raw, Toon Books
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