I’m a bit upset with myself for not catching on to this strip sooner. Imagine: a world-wise, seen-it-all net.reviewer like me, going all the way to Chicago, stumbling across a dealer table at the con there, and thumbing through a book collecting a strip that’s (duh) featured on the WWW!
The strip is about a [...]
I missed the first Gon book when it came out, and when I started looking for it a couple weeks later, I couldn’t find it at the first few places I tried. I was afraid they might be all gon. {ahem}
Finally, I found one, and I’m glad I did. Gon is a series that’s [...]
I’ve read enough Seattlesque slacker stories for now. Reading about the lives of the young, cash-starved, and aimless tends to get a bit dull after a while. But whether it’s the different setting of turn-of-the-(20th)-century London (thereby losing the overdone references to "nostalgic" 1970’s Americana), or Ilya’s storytelling and characterisation, I really enjoyed [...]
A strange thing happened to Bryan Talbot on his way to writing a book about the Lake District.
Looking for a “hook”, he got side-tracked into the world of former Lake District resident Beatrix Potter, the creator of the oh-so-charming anthropomorphic animal comics which people buy for their young children as “storybooks”. Then, trying to [...]
Prez - Then and Now - A look at the original and a recent revisit to America’s first teen president
Prez: First Teen President #3
by Joe Simon & Jerry Grandenetti
This comic is about a liberal (but easily swayed), non-military, young U.S. President going up against the “Minutemen”. These characters are “an extreme right-wing organization whose [...]
Talk about setting yourself up for failure. It wasn’t enough for Pat McGreal and Dave Rawson to create a comic book without a single superhero in it, one without even a hint of magic or of fantasy. Not enough to set it in historical Europe, without a single nightclub, or joint of pot [...]
review of issues #1-11
This Jammer sure gets around. He started at Slave Labor. Then Tundra reprinted (and colorised) those first five issues. From there he moved to Dark Horse for a few issues. Now he’s at Caliber (a company which is rapidly moving toward the top my most-respected-publishers list). I [...]
This is one strange series. The first issue alone introduces over a dozen characters, ranging from sentient dinosaurs, several shadowy conspirators (including one with a suspicious little WWII-era-German moustache), a weird alien, a US president who acts like a 6-year-old, a professional bad girl named Thrill Kitten, various scientists, and an angel cast down [...]
“I like the art. Neat lettering.” That was my boyfriend Andy’s immediate reaction when he looked over my shoulder as I started reading these. I agree. (Now leave me alone and let me read, OK?)
The art reminds me of Evan Dorkin’s Pirate Corps work, but without the fine point pen he uses [...]
The credits for this book read like a Who’s Who of alternative and under-ground comix. How about Eisner, Groening, Sacco, Fleener, Ware, Hernandez, Crumb, Lutes, Shelton, and Bagge as just a quickie sample? So when I had a chance to order it from the Quality Paperback Book Club at a discount, I jumped.
As [...]
I’ve never been the sentimental type; I get bored at weddings and funerals, I tend to take both tragedies and celebrations in stride. But this book brought me to tears… and laughter. It’s that good.
I don’t buy hardcover “graphic novels”, either. I think the term is pretentious, and I figure it’s silly [...]
This is a story narrated by Hugh Waterhouse, a young man telling about the the Summer Solstice on which his obsessive father died, seeking the legendary Fountain of Youth.
You might think I’ve just spoilt the plot, but this little bit is really just the setup from the opening pages. There’s far more [...]