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Reviews of Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile, Lewis Trondheim’s Little Nothings Vol. 3, and C. C. Colbert and Tanitoc’s Booth this week at the Guttergeek wing of the TCJ emporium!

Minis Monday: Morgan Pielli and Jen Vaughn

Posted by Rich Kreiner on March 15th, 2010 at 1:00 PM

Over time, last year’s Maine Comic Arts Festival in Portland has come to seem increasingly like a particularly productive orchard. Here’s more of what was plucked.

Sunny Fundays

Posted by R.C. Harvey on March 15th, 2010 at 12:14 PM

Spending a few more minutes with the Sunday funnies where a cartoonist can do wonderful things with color and the extra space.

Nina Paley and Others Respond

Posted by Noah Berlatsky on March 15th, 2010 at 11:52 AM

To wrap up our copyright roundtable, I’ve highlighted some of the comments we received about copyright from Nina Paley, animators, composers, singer-songwriters, and others.

Wing-To-Wing Combat: Big Questions #12

Posted by Rob Clough on March 15th, 2010 at 5:48 AM

Rob reviews the 12th issue of Anders Nilsen’s BIG QUESTIONS series, subtitled A YOUNG CROW’S GUIDE TO HUNTING (Drawn & Quarterly).

Real Horrorshow

Posted by R. Fiore on March 15th, 2010 at 2:23 AM

I saw Stanley Kubrick’s movie of A Clockwork Orange again recently, and it brought to mind some thoughts while not specifically germane to comics are germane to morally ambiguous entertainment, which comics tend to be. (I’m assuming you’ve all…

Vicious, Bloody Attack Upon Gary Groth

Posted by Noah Berlatsky on March 14th, 2010 at 12:29 PM

As part of our free culture roundtable, Caro presents several of Nina Paley’s comics, Including a depiction of the murder of Gary Groth.

Rich Kreiner’s Yearlong Best of the Year: Meanwhile

Posted by Rich Kreiner on March 13th, 2010 at 1:00 PM

Like a maze there are narrative dead ends as well as embedded, endlessly recursive loops (some of which are funny in their own way … assuming you’re in the mood to be amused). There are false leads, duplicated pages, deceptive trails, unrelated paths, isolated sequences and single standalone panels to foil would-be short-cutters as well as any less-than-completely-attentive readers.

Worst. Mashup. Ever. (And Some of the Best)

Posted by Noah Berlatsky on March 13th, 2010 at 6:59 AM

As part of our copyright roundtable, blogger and bastard pop fan Alan Benard assembles a list of links to great mashups. Thus inspired, I have attempted to create a mashup of my own. It’s not pretty.