Author Archives: Tom De Haven
Commencement Address: Center for Cartoon Studies, May 2012
Tom De Haven’s words of wisdom to young cartoonists. Continue reading
Donald Duck “Lost in the Andes”
The inaugural volume in this new Barks reprint series starts things off strong and does not let up. Continue reading
Five Aspects of the Reprint High Renaissance
It’s as if a hive decision was arrived at among publishers to produce, once and for all, a comprehensive national comics library in print. Continue reading
Mid-Life
For those of us who got fed up a long time ago with misanthropic, self-pitying comics about unappreciated cartoonists, the first few pages of Joe Ollmann’s Mid-Life don’t seem promising. Here’s liver-spotted, pot-bellied, deeply scowling John Olsen—Ollmann’s “semi-fictitious” surrogate and protagonist, … Continue reading
The Comics
Good pictures and some hoary old anecdotes are the meat of the update of the long out-of-print 1970s history book. Continue reading
Love from the Shadows
Reading Love from the Shadows left me annoyed, cranky, baffled, disappointed, and breast-fixated, as has most of Beto’s work in recent years. Continue reading
