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“But You Bugger One Kaiser . . .”
The latest from Joe Sacco and Ted Rall.
Gods Do Favors, Darwin Doesn’t
Business evolution, comic book heroes and comic book makers.
Sometimes a Watermelon is Just a Watermelon
Walt Kelly, M.K. Brown, George Wunder and George Carlson.
Mouly Mouthpiece
A look at Jeet Heer’s new book, In Love With Art.
Days of Yesteryear
Now that all our fond hopes for 2013 have been dashed and our memories of 2012 rendered into a whited sepulcher, wouldn’t it be wonderful to relive those innocent times? Well, then, I’ve got the column for you.
The House that Jack Built
To a comic book mogul a comic book character was of no value unless you had the means to print and distribute a magazine. The deal offered to the creators was regular employment in exchange for all rights in their creations, and the terms were take it or leave it.
You Needn’t Get Up on My Account
Like its predecessor, The Dark Knight Rises is a badly made movie redeemed by a single element that works.
Gold Out of Straw
Ed the Happy Clown returns, Shadow covers do battle, an ancient penny drops, Adrian Tomine meets Liz Prince in a paper bag, and Ray Bradbury checks out.
Freeway to UPA
Freeway by Mark Kalesniko (Fantagraphics) UPA: The Jolly Frolics Collection (TCM) The eponymous metaphor of Matt Kalesniko’s Freeway is almost too easy: A transportation network that once granted free and effortless mobility that’s become a morass of stagnation and frustration to symbolize an animation business that promised personal expression amid camaraderie but delivers forced mediocrity… Read more »
A Long Strange Trip, If You’ll Pardon the Expression
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.
Whatever Happened to Will Eisner?
PS Magazine then and now…
Theater of the Inaccessible Presents: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec!
Hollywood released two, three and sometimes four movies that were not as good as Adele Blanc-Sec every week of the year and change since it came out.
Art Comics and No Fooling
They send ’em, I review ’em. Eventually.
Some Girls Work in Factories, Some Girls Work in Stores
R. Fiore on Chester Brown’s Paying for It.
Easy Winners
Old myths embedded in an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Anthem and an early work by Jacques Tardi.
The Illusionist and His Illusions
I’d like to be able to say Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist is a better movie than the recently coronated Toy Story 3. Not that it isn’t a fine thing on its own terms.
