A decent cover followed by a whole lot of nothing. On display this issue: civilians with pointlessly dynamic postures, a black kid getting helped, unremarkable moments splashed across the page bigger than they should be.
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Archive for July, 2010
Philippine Comics in July 19, 2010: A Snapshot
Posted by Gerry Alanguilan on July 27th, 2010 at 12:01 AMThe Philippines once boasted of a gigantic comic book industry that saw no less than a hundred new issues a month released across several publishing companies. The most successful titles sold no less than 100,000 copies per issue, coming out on a weekly basis. It was a tremendous industry, which gave hundreds of writers and artists employment, and millions of Filipinos entertainment.
Rich Kreiner: Minis Monday
Posted by Rich Kreiner on July 26th, 2010 at 1:00 PM
If there was one comic at the inaugural Maine Comics Arts Festival that generated some genuine, non-cliffhanger-related suspense, it would have been that of Jen Vaughn.
VERTIGO CRIME(S) – Part 1
Posted by Jared Gardner on July 26th, 2010 at 9:22 AM
I have been in love with crime comics since before I was born: the first time I saw an issue of Lev Gleason’s Crime Does Not Pay as a child, I knew I had to find a way to travel back in time to those glorious pre-code days so I could read more. Ultimately, my attempts to build a time machine were thwarted by failing out of first year physics, and for many years I resigned myself to just tracking down all the precode crime I could. But beginning with the code-obliterating efforts of Frank Miller, the 1990s saw a resurgence of crime comics. For me, the best of them remains David Lapham’s amazingly twisted Stray Bullets, whose demise I am still mourning many years later, but remarkable crime series have continued to emerge over the past decade—most notably, of course, Azarello and Risso’s 100 Bullets and Brubaker and Phillips’ Criminal (Rick Geary’s unique historical crime books also deserve mention, although in truth they constitute a genre unto themselves).
Gil Kane as Critic
Posted by Noah Berlatsky on July 26th, 2010 at 7:27 AMDo Gil Kane’s interviews hold up as criticism? Ng Suat Tong presents the evidence.
Lightning Round: Short Takes on Various Comics
Posted by Rob Clough on July 26th, 2010 at 5:19 AMRob offers brief comments on a number of comics: Yo! Burbalino # 1-3, by Greg Farrell; The Regular Man #10, by Dina Kelberman; Candy Or Medicine Volume 10, edited by Josh Blair; and Moral Geometry by Sean Andress.
Journalista for June 26, 2010: It could be worse
Posted by Dirk Deppey on July 26th, 2010 at 4:10 AM
RIP: John Callahan, Kerala Varma ♦ Carlos Ezquerra recuperating after lung removal ♦ more
Top Shelf’s Swedish Invasion
Posted by Chris Mautner on July 26th, 2010 at 12:01 AM
It sounds, on the face of it, like a great marketing idea. Find a country that has a thriving comics community, but yet isn’t well known for it by most North Americans comics readers, indy or otherwise (i.e. any place that’s not France or Japan). Then, translate and release a number of said country’s books to the American and Canadian public under the header of “The [name of country here] Invasion.” Voila! Almost half of your publishing catalog for the season is taken care of!
OK, so it’s safe to say that Top Shelf likely had more sincere and idealistic goals in mind beyond merely filling slots in their schedule when they released their “Swedish Invasion” collection of books earlier this year. After all, it’s not like publishing these books doesn’t come with a certain amount of financial risk; there aren’t that many readers clamoring to procure Scandinavian comics as far as I know.
Rolf Heimann on Ginger Meggs
Posted by heimann on July 25th, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Since its creation by Jimmy Bancks in 1921, the Australian strip Ginger Meggs has been drawn by a number of artists, presently by Jason Chatfield from Melbourne. Each artist drew the cheeky red-haired boy differently, yet he always remained recognizable.
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- Jason Shiga on Interactive Comics (with video)
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- The Strangest Pictures I Have Seen #13
- Sean Michael Robinson: The Craft Behind Cerebus: An Interview with Gerhard (Part One of Three)
- Moebius Above and Below
- The Passing Scene
- “I’ve Drawn Thousands of Comics”
- DICK LOCHER HANGS UP HIS FEDORA
TCJ International Blogs
- Belgium: Egypt, Country of Clay
- Latin America: The Co(s)mic Race: Blackface in Comics South of the Border (Part II)
- Italy: Ignatz Update 4: Interiorae #4
- Belgium: Going Underground in the Thirties
- Sweden: The New Serieteket
- Italy: A little mirror of comics in Italy / part 1
- Latin America: The Co(s)mic Race: Blackface in Comics South of the Border (Part 1)
- Belgium: The Girl and the Gorilla
- Belgium: When I Was 18, Uncle Sam Wanted Me to Fight Adolf
- Sweden: Moebius exhibition in Paris
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