Archive for January, 2009
Guest Strip: Noah Van Sciver
No doubt, the recent Cross Hatch review of Noah Van Sciver’s Blammo 2 hangs fresh on your brain. So I’m happy to report that not only is the lastest issue – Blammo 3 – available through Van Sciver’s website, but just below the cut is a fresh Van Sciver comic, penned exclusively for the Daily [...]
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Tags: comics, hate, Noah Van Sciver
The Cross Hatch Dispatch 1/28/09
[Above, Eleanor Davis gets Stinky. Below, the smell of Dispatch in the morning.]
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Tags: Act-I-Vate, Adhouse, Eleanor Davis, Freddie and Me, Gary Panter, Lauren Weinstein, Mike Dawson, The Louvre, Toon Books
Tales From Outer Suburbia By Shaun Tan Scholastic Published in here in late 2007, it was the fittingly-titled book The Arrival that truly established Shaun Tan in the States. Over the years, the Australian artist’s work has navigated the nebulous space between graphic novel and picture books. That book, a fantastical take on the traditional [...]
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Tags: Scholastic, Shaun Tan, Tales From Outer Suburbia, The Arrival
In addition to the comics work that has recently garnered her acclaim through titles like The Lagoon and Woodsman Pete, Chicago-based cartoonist Lilli Carre has also produced a handful of animated shorts, many of which can be streamed on her site (as well as the above video for the Tim Fite song, “Big Mistake,” which [...]
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Guest Strip: Geoff Vasile
Angry-looking people are a total crack up, agreed? Which is why Geoff Vasile‘s mini-comic Geoff Vasile is Real will forever remain a favorite of mine. Lately, Vasile has busied himself in the world of comics by (quote) “losing the prestigious Ignatz and Maise Kukoc awards to more deserving (if less handsome) cartoonists, being published in [...]
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Tags: awkward dating scenarios, Geoff Vasile, New Year 2009
For a book so invested in the poetry of sound, The Lagoon seems somehow quiet. Siren songs and metronomes and the whooshing of wind fill the its pages, but the book’s important moments, more often than not, seem to exist in the spaces in between, those quiet panels when its cacophonies have been temporarily extinguished. [...]
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Tags: Fantagraphics, Lilli Carre, Mome, The Lagoon, Top Shelf, Woodsman Pete
Motro #1 by Ulises Farinas
Motro #1 By Ulises Farinas “Think about how big the world is,” writes Ulises Farinas on the inside front cover of Motro’s first issue. The brief note appears to be handwritten in every copy of the book. It’s a small print run, of course. The mini is, for all intents and purposes, something of an [...]
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Tags: Act-I-Vate, Motro, Ulises Farinas
Of course Bob Fingerman is kidding when he suggests that the title of this article ought be “Bob Fingerman: Portrait in Self-Defeat.” Well, mostly. Fingerman doesn’t go out of his way to please all the people all the time—after all, that’s what syndicated Sunday funnies are for. In the most simplistic terms, his work often [...]
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Tags: Beg the Question, Bob Fingerman, Bottomfeeder, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, From the Ashes, Minimum Wage, Recess Pieces, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Moulger Bag Digest by Brent Harada and Rusty Jordan Self-published When a book like this arrives in my mailbox, it can become a terrifying experience once I start to review it. To a point, there’s a procedure I try to follow in writing about another person’s work: 1) resist comedy 2) talk about positive points [...]
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Tags: art zine, Brent Harada, fine art, monster, Moulger Bag Digest, Rusty Jordan, zine
Forecast: Nozone X Ed. by Nicholas Blechman Princeton Architectural Press As humans, we have a collective obsession with predicting the future. From utopian and dystopian novels to doomsday movies to TV programs where families drive space ships instead of cars, our concerns about the government, technology, and the unknown territory of outer space have forever [...]
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