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It would have been a hard sell at nearly any other publisher, a coffee table art book devoted to the much maligned pseudo-science of cryptozoology—let alone a sequel to such a thing. And, had someone actually bit and jumped at the opportunity, the results would likely have been an unmitigated disaster.
In the loving hands of [...]
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Tags: Beasts, Dash Shaw, Fantagraphics, Jamie Hernandez, Jim Woodring, Peter Bagge, Tom Neely
Blammo 2 by Noah Van Sciver
Blammo 2
by Noah Van Sciver
Self-Published
In Blammo 2, Noah Van Sciver promotes his favorite bands, tells crude jokes, and mouths off about irritating trends polluting Denver, CO. It’s a notably zine-like comic for all its variety, education and filth - and it’s kind of a hoot.
Noah Van Sciver, it must be told, is the brother [...]
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Tags: Blammo, Bob Dylan, Interviews, Joe Matt, Noah Van Sciver
The Man Who Loved Breasts
By Robert Goodin
Top Shelf
It’s hard to be genuinely funny in the comics medium. It’s a truth that countless syndicated strips remind us of on a daily basis. In some ways a certain portion of their failure to amuse can be chalked up to the parameters within which they must operate in [...]
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Tags: Top Shelf, Robert Goodin, The Man Who Loved Breasts
Fishtown by Kevin Colden
Fishtown
By Kevin Colden
IDW
When I first reviewed Fishtown, back in January, the artist was using Act-i-vate to publish a page a week of the book, which is based on a true story and follows four Philadelphia teens who brutally murder and rob their friend Jesse (the character’s name in the book). Now Fishtown is out in [...]
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Tags: Act-I-Vate, Fishtown, IDW, Kevin Colden, murder, Philadelphia
Punk Rock and Trailer Parks
By Derf
Slave Labor Graphics
There are some exceptions, to be sure—Gary Panter, Jamie Helwitt, and Ben Snakepit come immediately to mind—but on a whole, the lack of prominent punk comics seems a bit surprising given the similar and oft-overlapping nature of the two counter-cultures. Punk has surely had a large [...]
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Tags: Derf, Punk Rock and Trailer Parks, Slave Labor Graphics
Your Disease Spreads Quick & Brilliantly Ham-Fisted
By Tom Neely
With The Blot, Tom Neely created one of the best graphic novels of 2007. It was weird and wonderful—surrealist and terrifying and strangely hopeful, all at the same time. Neely’s artwork ably straddled the line between the comfortably familiar and the compellingly new, with a largely wordless [...]
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Tags: Brilliantly Ham-Fisted, The Blot, The Melvins, Tom Neely, Your Disease Spreads Quick
And How by Gregory Corso
And How
by Gregory Corso
Powderfinger Books
The common definition of insanity, as I’ve heard it, is to expect different results from predictable courses. For instance, if you have a preferred route to work, and each day it takes you to the same office, that’s predictable. If you think that by following the same route, you [...]
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Tags: and how, bigfoot, gregory corso, insanity, xeric grant
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
Ochre Ellipse #2
By Jonas Madden-Connon
Family Style
Start with something simple: unrequited love. A cashier at a supermarket–Mercet. She’s small and full-bodied and rosy-cheeked. She works the checkout line Mondays through Thursdays and on Saturday afternoons. Our momentary protagonist is, to say the least, enamored. He meanders through the supermarket, tossing groceries into his basket that he [...]
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Tags: Jonas Madden-Connor, Ochre Ellipse
It didn’t take long for reviewers to begin lavishing praise upon Bottomless Belly Button. Before Dash Shaw’s 700-odd page tome was released, back in June, critics and artists alike were already heralding it as the graphic novel of the year, the subsequent six months be damned.
Even at that length, the book is deceptively simple, thanks [...]
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Tags: Body World, Bottomless Belly Button, Dash Shaw, Fantagraphics
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