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Graphic Novel Friday: "The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book"
Graphic Novel Friday: "The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book"
Rolling in like a slow, fuzzed-out guitar line from an Orange-brand amp, The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book lives up to the good vibes promised in its title. Artist and writer Joe Daly's full-color graphic novel collects two stories starring...
Should comics maintain their future on the web?
fourcolormedmon.blogspot.com — James Hudnall at Big Hollywood is talking about the death of the printed medium and how that's... affecting even the comics business, not to mention the 4 dollar price they've already reached. He's also suggesting that going digital on the web may help give them some new life.Now their is some ... (more) Should comics maintain their future on the web?
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Daily OCD: 11/20/09
FLOG! Entries — ... lives up to the good vibes promised in its title. ... Having recently finished Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice and Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, I couldn't help but consider The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book as a distant third-cousin to those titles. ...The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book is a weekend read, best consumed with your feet propped up, opposable digits or not." – Alex Carr, Omnivoracious (Amazon.com) ...

Linkarama@Newsarama
Blog@Newsarama — ... McMillan breaks it down…and please note the “Ideal” in the headline is apparently ironic. This would be fine with me: “Anne Hathaway in ‘Spider-Man 4′” What did Tom Spurgeon read before going to bed, if this was his first thought of the day?: Check it out here. (Here’s a hint: It has to do with the X-Men and health care reform). Some recent reviews: Alex Carr on The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, Tom Horgen on ...

Nov. 23, 2009: Slippery justifications and excuses
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal — ... Neil Kleid and possibly artist Nicolas Cinquegrani.)   [Review] Monsters Link: Rob Clough “Dahl, working very much in the tradition of underground comics, created a hilarious but bracing story about living with a disease that by its very nature creates a state of perpetual alienation.”   [Review] The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book Link: Alex Carr “The bad news is that I could not find more Dave and Paul stories, but ...

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