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And Now the News: The Gigantic Robot is Revealed
And Now the News: The Gigantic Robot is Revealed
michaelmay.blogspot.com — Hunt at World's End The third installment in Hard Case's pulp-style adventure series is out. Here's their description of it: Three jewels, lost for centuries and scattered across the globe, hold the secret to a device of unspeakable power, and only Gabriel Hunt can prevent them from falling ... (more) And Now the News: The Gigantic Robot is Revealed
Irene Vartanoff and Romance Comics
inkdestroyedmybrush.blogspot.com — Over at Sequential Crush Jacque Nodell has posted a wonderful interview with Irene Vartanoff who had worked at both Marvel and DC back in the early '70's. It covers a variety of topics and is just great reading both from the sociological aspect as ... (more) Irene Vartanoff and Romance Comics
SWIPE FILE
SWIPE FILE
fantagraphics.com — Making poor Lucy cry... Hägar, you truly are horrible. (I guess Dick Tracy is no longer the only one getting coal in his stocking this year from cartoonist/The Complete Peanuts designer Seth.) And in the cosmic coincidence department: ... (more) SWIPE FILE
Unbound: Josh Way on the end of Chronicle
Unbound: Josh Way on the end of Chronicle
robot6.comicbookresources.com — I discovered Chronicle shortly after Josh Way started posting it online, and I liked it immediately. It’s the story of a brash big-city newspaper editor sent out to run a two-bit paper in a modern-day Green Acres, a small town with more than its ... (more) Unbound: Josh Way on the end of Chronicle
Krazy Kat
booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com — I am neither a big fan of nor all that familiar with KRAZY KAT, the cult favorite surrealist comic strip from the early years of the last century. There's a nice book by Patrick (MUTTS) McDonnell from a couple of decades back and my ITCH-y mentor Craig Yoe has a KRAZY KAT book he's finishing ... (more) Krazy Kat
Al Columbia: Good news, bad news
Al Columbia: Good news, bad news
robot6.comicbookresources.com — Al Columbia's Pim & Francie If fans of mercurial cartoonist Al Columbia have learned anything over the course of his sporadic but storied career, it's "get it while it's hot." He's got talent to burn, but he burned out on Alan Moore's Big ... (more) Al Columbia: Good news, bad news
Al Columbia ‘TOYLAND’ limited edition giclee prints
Al Columbia ‘TOYLAND’ limited edition giclee prints
floatingworldcomics.com — TOYLAND by Al Columbia Pim & Francie is already receiving advance praise from folks like Spike Jonze. Jim Woodring’s drawing group, Friends of the Nib, is calling it “book of the year“. Al’s always working on something new and amazing, whether ... (more) Al Columbia ‘TOYLAND’ limited edition giclee prints
By the 10's: Fritzi Ritz!
By the 10's: Fritzi Ritz!
waffyjon.blogspot.com — This time around, By the 10's looks at Fritzi Ritz! She doesn't ring a bell with some of you younger readers? She was Nancy's aunt (you know, Nancy as in "Nancy and Sluggo"?), and was the featured character in that strip originally, until her niece came along and took over the thing! Here's ... (more) By the 10's: Fritzi Ritz!
Grotesque #2-3
Grotesque #2-3
readaboutcomics.com — By Sergio Ponchione 32 pages, two-color Published by Fantagraphics Books One of the things I love about Fantagraphics’s Ignatz Series of comics is how they’ve brought artists and styles from all over the world into a single line. ... (more) Grotesque #2-3
Robot reviews: Two by Tardi
Robot reviews: Two by Tardi
robot6.comicbookresources.com — West Coast Blues West Coast Blues by Jacques Tardi and Jean Patrick Manchette Fantagraphics Books, 80 pages, $18.99. You Are There by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Claude Forest Fantagraphics Books, 196 pages, $26.99. It makes perfect sense ... (more) Robot reviews: Two by Tardi
The Comics Reporter
The Comics Reporter
comicsreporter.com — CR Review: Prison Pit, Vol. 1 image Creator: Johnny Ryan Publishing Information: Fantagraphics, softcover, 120 pages, October 2009, $12.99 Ordering Numbers: 160699297X (ISBN10), 9781606992975 (ISBN13) I wish to add my voice to the chorus of those ... (more) The Comics Reporter
Anti-Mega: Unearthing the Ruin: Brian Dillon
Anti-Mega: Unearthing the Ruin: Brian Dillon
anti-mega.com — A quick, free talk by Brian Dillon (editor of Cabinet Magazine ) at Barbican Lates, to celebrate Robert Kusmirowski’s Bunker in the Curve. It’s interesting and alluring, as it’s a field I’m not very familiar with. It will be ... (more) Anti-Mega: Unearthing the Ruin: Brian Dillon
Nakedness in comic strips offensive to subscribers
capecodonline.com — Text Size: A | A | A Print this Article Print this Article Email this Article Email this Article November 13, 2009 "Zits" is one of our favorite comic strips. However, we find two recent comic strips depicting nudity to be inappropriate and offensive ... (more) Nakedness in comic strips offensive to subscribers
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day
comicbycomic.com — In the UK, it's Remembrance Day, in the US it's Veteran's Day. Elsewhere, it's Armistice Day, since on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, Germany signed the Armistice and World War I - often simply referred to then as the Great War - ended. In the United States it wasn't ... (more) Remembrance Day
Comics Grinder: The Squirrel Machine
Comics Grinder: The Squirrel Machine
blog.newsarama.com — Hans Rickheit’s “The Squirrel Machine,” published by Fantagraphics Books, is a beautiful 179 page hard cover graphic novel. It is an appropriate book to start out this new column since it sets the tone for the type of offbeat ... (more) Comics Grinder: The Squirrel Machine
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