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Archive for January, 2011
Next Week On tcj.com
Posted by admin on January 21st, 2011 at 6:12 PMKristian Williams continues to explore the cloudy world of Garth Ennis’ aerial warfare stories; Sean Michael Robinson talks to attorneys on both sides of the obscenity case of an Idaho schoolteacher imprisoned for possession of sexually explicit cartoon parodies of The Simpsons; R.C. Harvey stakes out Secret Agent Corrigan; Rob Clough tackles Anders Nislen’s Big Questions and John Brodowski’s Curio Cabinet; a new Latin American blog by Jesse Tangen-Mills; and much more!
From Hellblazer #71: written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Steve Dillon. @1993 DC Comics
tcj.com links January 15 — January 21
Posted by admin on January 21st, 2011 at 6:01 PMRob Clough on World War III and Borderland.
Marc Sobel on reading comics with your Android phone.
Part 1 (Seth’s Palookaville #20)and Part 2 (Jason Lutes’ Berlin #17) of Rob Clough’s 3-part series on Drawn & Quarterly’s recent single issues.
R.C. Harvey continues his survey of fall’s comic strips with Brett Koth’s Diamond Lil.
Rich Kreiner’s Minis Monday: The Widow Reminisces Over a Plate of Vegetables, Mimi’s Doughnut Zine #19: Health
Nathan Wilson reviews The Rat Catcher by Andy Diggle and Victor Ibanez
Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (of 6) of Kristian Williams’ examination of Garth Ennis’ aerial combat comics.
R. C. Harvey contends that Chip Dunham (Overboard) can’t draw well enough to get across his gags.
Shaenon Garrity delineates her choices for the Best Online Comics Criticism 2010.
The Opposite of Progress
Posted by Tom Crippen on January 21st, 2011 at 4:26 PMMy parents had favorite productions of Hamlet. I have favorite seasons of The Simpsons.
In Praise of Saul Steinberg
Posted by Noah Berlatsky on January 21st, 2011 at 2:53 PMAt HU, Caroline Small looks at sequence in the work of Saul Steinberg.
Garth Ennis’s Knights of the Sky, Part Three: Dan Dare: “We always fight squalid little men like you.”
Posted by Kristian Williams on January 21st, 2011 at 12:01 AMGiven the cruel satire of The Phantom Eagle, and the sober drama of “Condors,” it may be surprising to find Ennis idealizing, well, anything.
But he is nevertheless willing to engage in some myth-making of his own. Dan Dare (another resuscitated old-school comics hero) practically embodies the notions of courage, decency, fairness, mercy, moral resolve, and good sense — fortuitously unified with natural leadership, personal charisma, fighting skill, and rugged good looks. Plus, he’s an astronaut — and an Englishman. “He’s a British hero,” Ennis writes, “An English hero, by God, in a time when such characters are few and far between.”
THE PANELISTS: Jonah Hex Part 1
Posted by Jared Gardner on January 20th, 2011 at 5:49 PMCraig on the bloody virtues of DC’s JONAH HEX comic.
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- 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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