“The Starting Point”: An Interview with Julie Doucet
Cars, collage, and reading loud with the Montreal-based artist.
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Wonder Woman: Earth One
DC Comics’ long awaited Wonder Woman: Earth One graphic novel, written by Grant Morrison with art by Yanick Paquette, opens with a triumphant Hercules standing over a kneeling Queen Hippolyta, bound in chains, as he exults, “Queen of the Amazons! To heel, bitch of Hercules!” It’s a beginning that some may find off-putting, and understandably… Read more »
The Complete Wimmen’s Comix
Tackling a body of works published in a form fundamentally different from its original iteration – like the newly released two-volume hardcover, The Complete Wimmen’s Comix – can feel a bit daunting. The collection, which comes in at 700 pages, opens with a brief introduction by Trina Robbins followed by one issue of the forerunning… Read more »
Thee Simon Hanselmann Experience
How will an independence pump over comics? Simon Hanselmann oils comics. The difficult excess swims comics across dull seas. Simon Hanselmann squashes the pressure.
Rules for Dating My Daughter
Mike Dawson delivers an uneven collection of personal essay-style memoir comics, occasionally thoughtful, but often thoughtless in its concern for others.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/20/16 – Video Game Blogging Will Lock In Reader Interest)
Given the date, my editors can pretend I’m on extremely average drugs.
The Gould Rush: The Mad Allure of Dick Tracy
It’s time someone came out and said it—Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy is bonkers. Stark raving crazy. But it’s an American crazy—we feel at home in it.
Mini Kuš! Comics #38–41
This latest quartet of minicomics from the celebrated Latvian comics outfit features new stories by artists from Latvia, the US, Finland, & Germany, respectively.
Connecticut Cartoonists #4: Superheroes, Politics, and Soap
Gil Kane, Warren King, Leonard Starr
Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus
Shall we judge a book by its cover? The cover of Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus bears a window or panel of yonic shape: a pointed ellipse that opens like an eye turned sidewise. This kind of shape has been likened to a sailboat, or sideways smile—in the world of gem-cutting it’s a… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/13/16 – A Process of Deduction)
Weekly services for adherents of commerce.
“To Learn How to Tell That Joke”: An Interview with Eleanor Davis
Checking in with the prolific cartoonist, whose current work includes the publications BDSM, Flop to the Top!, and Libby’s Dad.
