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THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/7/15 – Way Behind the Times)
Lateness can’t stop money.
Jack Kirby at Cal State Northridge
Assembling and mounting the first serious institutional retrospective exhibition in America examining the art of Jack Kirby is a task fraught with contradictions.
Coffee Time
Matthias Wivel is here with a review of the giant Drawn and Quarterly 25th anniversary anthology: Today, when you’re ingesting the latest whirl of supremely controlled, cold-as-ice pages from Michael DeForge, or finding yourself having lost forty-five minutes cracking up knowingly while scrolling down Kate Beaton’s Tumblr, it may hit you how strangely natural this… Read more »
Ted Rall vs the Los Angeles Times
A look at the varying accounts surrounding the Los Angeles Times’ firing of Ted Rall, and whether the LAPD told the newspaper to do it.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/30/15 – It Takes All Kinds)
One hell of a lot of comics this week. Just stay indoors.
Foxy Grandpa
Today, Dan writes about a slew of comics he’s read recently, including work by Aidan Koch, Anya Davidson, Benjamin Marra, Heather Benjamin, S. Clay Wilson, and Hugo Pratt, among others. Here’s an excerpt, in which he reviews the new anthology, Lagon: I was one of the lucky 400 who got this limited edition risograph comics… Read more »
Recent Reading
My recent reading — making my way through the piles. We’ve got your Koch, Benjamin, Davidson, Marra, Chandler, Pratt, Toth, Lagon, etc.
Funny Angry: An Interview with Jane Mai
Jane Mai’s See You Next Tuesday is a raucous bunch of short comics and scraps. This third book in what appears to be a loose trilogy is lighter and funnier, but allows itself to go deeper and darker as a result.
Restoring a Lost Psychedelic Anime Classic: An Interview with the Team Reintroducing Belladonna of Sadness
This 1973 film from Osamu Tezuka’s production studio was a commercial failure and remained unseen by wider audiences for years after its initial release.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/23/15 – Ideal Results)
The classics continue, because I let them.
Pushing the Limits: Comics and Creators That Stretch the Form
Comics as a self-aware form.
Tear Everything to Pieces: A Conversation with Liz Suburbia
An interview with the author of the debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics, Sacred Heart, which blends the Bible, punk rock, the magical realism of the Hernandez brothers, and trashy teen girl revenge flicks into a subtle story that explores alienation, gender, consent, sexuality, and trauma.
