Angoulême 2012: Saturday
The most eloquently curated comics show I’ve seen since the fantastic Masters of European Comics in 2001.
The most eloquently curated comics show I’ve seen since the fantastic Masters of European Comics in 2001.
The Art Spiegelman retrospective in the Castro building is amazing.
The Someday Funnies now joins Smile, From Arrgh to Zap, and a complete version of Metropolis on the list of Things That Have Come Out Before The Last Dangerous Visions.
No one is wedding horror’s darkness to an equally black, equally lacerating emotional palette as effectively as Julia Gfrörer.
I included my finder’s fee in the above total, just so you know.
Jim Rugg (with a guest appearance by Ben Marra) talks to the artist behind Fukitor.
Kowabunga.
Posters, juices, and other staples of life.
The first GRID of the new year looks at a handful of comics and graphic novels from 2011.
Tasty inventions and familial bonding.
Abstaining makes the heart grow (fonder).
Mike talks to Zak Sally, creator of Sammy the Mouse and publisher of La Mano.
Revisiting Pogo and Uncle Buck.
A brief one this week, as reprints issue, revamps form, and my apartment gradually reheats.