hoodedutilitarian.blogspot.com - 4/3/2009
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I've mentioned in a few places (most recently here) that Japanese comics artists are in my view by and large better than American ones. I should probably expand that to just be "Eastern artists" or maybe "Japanese and Korean artists." I just started the series Dokebi Bride, by Korean creator ...
hoodedutilitarian.blogspot.com - 4/7/2009
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In this post a few days ago I
compared these two pictures: That first, with the dragon,...
is from Dokebi Bride, a Korean manwha by a young creator named Marley. The second image is from All Star Superman, drawn by Frank Quitely, one of the most ...
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Nowhere Man, Somewhere Dragon
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April 4, 2009: Shorter Journalista 20
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal —
... novel,’ designed to imply an intellectual and narrative heft greater than that of simple strip cartoons, although most creators and fans disdain the term. When told that he wrote graphic novels rather than comic books, Neil Gaiman wrote bemusedly: ‘I felt like someone who’d been informed that she wasn’t actually a hooker, she was a lady of the evening.’”
[Commentary] Better money shots
Link: Noah Berlatsky
Japan does it better.
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