Archive for February, 2009
Interview: Liz Baillie Pt. 1
After threatening for months to conduct and interview with her for my comics blog, Liz Baillie and I finally settled on a time, just after work on a snow night just after in late-January. As for a location? I suggest a bar, an old favorite just north of Houston st. in Manhattan, only to concede [...]
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Tags: Bouncing Souls, Liz Baillie, My Brain Hurts
There’s a little bit of the future and the past in this quick final installment of our interview with The Lagoon author. We discuss the ways in which Lilli Caree’s fascination with sound has affected her comics, the power of a resolution-free ending, and why Hans Christian Andersen’s short story about a sad little Christmas [...]
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Tags: Fantagraphics, Lilli Carre, Mome, The Lagoon, Top Shelf, Woodsman Pete
Anyone who’s ever stepped foot in midtown Manhattan’s Javits Center knows what nightmare big conventions can be. The insanity proves exponential when, once a year, the Center opens its doors to the New York Comic Con, a pulsating gauntlet of stray light sabers, marked-up die-cast memorabilia, and bit players from largely forgotten 70s science-fiction series. [...]
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Tags: Comic Con, Cominc Con 2009, New York Comic Con