Robot reviews: Stitches & Monsters
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
... Stitches: A Memoir
by David Small
WW Norton, 336 pages, $24.95.
Monsters
by Ken Dahl
Secret Acres, 208 pages, $18.
I sometimes suspect that part of the reason some critics (if I can use that term) are hostile towards the recent spate of comic book (sorry, graphic novel) memoirs is due to a mistrust of the genre itself. There's a tendency when someone is chronicling a dramatic, personal event, to exult praise merely for inherent drama of the story, particularly if it's a traumatic ...
An anticipation post that goes near and far.
Jog - The Blog —
... collection of Ken Dahl's frank, vivid, and energetically cartooned account of herpes - its composition, its spread and its effects on a man, and other people. I've read some of this in minicomics form, and I was impressed by its visual ingenuity and strong sense of humor. Very much worth checking out; it's $18.00 for 208 pages, 7" x 7". ...
