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The Third Remedy
The addressees (neatly hand-printed) in the center of the tiny envelope were Adele and I at our home in Berkeley. The addressor (also neatly hand-printed but tinier) was the cartoonist Chester Brown from his apartment in Toronto. Inside was a black-and-white comic, 37 pages, four-by-five-inches. The title was The Third Remedy. In a box centered… Read more »
Richard Kyle in Retrospect
Reflections on a comics critic, publisher and retailer, along with an unpublished interview.
This Week’s Comics (9/6/17)
Strictly a consumer guide.
Through the Mirror
Late in life, Jack Kirby returned to his youth. After a long, distinguished career he drew his first unequivocally autobiographical story, “Street Code”, in 1983.
Yoe Books: A Disservice to Comics History
We are at peak reprint. Because of this, the only worthwhile publishing projects reissuing old comic strips or books need to be either uncovering hidden gems and critical missing links to bygone eras, or repackaging material in a way that makes it more historically relevant or capital-I “Important.” Craig Yoe does neither. The hardcovers discharged… Read more »
The True History of Eustace Tilley
…And of Other Fictional and Nonfictional “Characters” at The New Yorker
Non ho sonno.
This is the final installment of THIS WEEK IN COMICS!
Pope Hats #5
The saga of best friends and polar opposites Frances and Vicki comes to an end in a double-sized issue of Pope Hats, Ethan Rilly’s catch-all, one-man anthology series. Unlike previous issues, which featured multiple stories, this one is entirely devoted to Fran and Vicki, the childhood friends who took dramatically different career paths. Fran’s a… Read more »
Belgian Lace from Hell: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 3
Belgian Lace From Hell, the third and final volume of Patrick Rosenkranz’s “The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson,” has landed. Rosenkranz is our leading historian of underground comics. His Pirates in the Heartland (Fantagraphics. 2014),[1] took Wilson from his birth in 1941, through his ground-breaking, taboo-shattering work in the glory years of the UG. His… Read more »
Paper Pencil Life #5
The latest collection of stories, diary comics and drawings from Summer Pierre.
Eye Drum: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics
Looking at how Yokoyama plays with the fact that visual experience in comics is often deeply tied to the ear and, through the ear, the human voice.
