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Archive for February, 2011
Hail The White Rhinoceros Part Two (of Three): Shaun Partridge Continued
Posted by Ian Burns on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:01 AMThe Uniqueness of the Art
Posted by R.C. Harvey on February 21st, 2011 at 8:13 PMWords Blending with Pictures
Minis Monday: Dexter Park and The Neighbor
Posted by Rich Kreiner on February 21st, 2011 at 2:00 PMA while back I offered comment on Desmond Reed’s Aloha and The Island. The two comics here, Dexter Park and The Neighbor, come in the very same, cozy, 4¼” x 2¾ ” package with double-thick pages. They feature the very same clear, congenial, pictographically accessible drawing style. Reed uses a single, confident line of unvarying thickness to virtually embody cartooning directness. Outlines define the world and solid blacks, spotted to purpose, are it in terms of texture. No shading, no crosshatching. In a similarly no-nonsense fashion, dialogue is to point yet wholly conversational, amicable and routinely engaging.
From Dexter Park
Ignatz Update 2: Niger #3
Posted by Rob Clough on February 21st, 2011 at 9:35 AMIn the second part of a series, Rob takes a look at the most recent issues published from the joint Fantagraphics-Coconino Press Ignatz Series. Here, he examines Niger #3, by Leila Marzocchi.
It’s hard to decide which Ignatz book is …
Graphic Youth: Louis: Night Salad by Metaphrog
Posted by Gavin Lees on February 21st, 2011 at 9:00 AM
By sublimating paranoia and hallucinatory symbolism into the bright, primary-colored world of Louis, Franco-Scottish duo Metaphrog have crafted an all-ages graphic novel that is all at once touching, intelligent and beautiful to behold.
Hail The White Rhinoceros Part One (of Three): Shaun Partridge
Posted by Ian Burns on February 21st, 2011 at 12:01 AM
(Photo taken by K is for Kaleidoscope.)
The New Serieteket
Posted by Fredrik Stromberg on February 20th, 2011 at 10:02 AMRecently I visited the new incarnation of Serieteket, Sweden’s only speciality library for comics, enjoying a presentation by the ever energetic library manager Kristiina Kolehmainen. Serieteket has been around for 15 years and is a unique establishment in the Northern …
Ignatz Update 1: Sammy The Mouse #3
Posted by Rob Clough on February 19th, 2011 at 5:15 AMIn the first of a four-part series about recent comics from the joint Fantagraphics-Coconino Ignatz line, Rob reviews Sammy The Mouse #3, by Zak Sally.
Though it’s flying a bit under the radar now, the joint Fantagraphics-Coconino Ignatz line publishing …
Next Week On tcj.com
Posted by admin on February 18th, 2011 at 6:00 PMShaun Partridge and Josh Simmons talk about The White Rhinoceros and getting arrested at a David Cassidy concert. John Ridgway talks about his four decades in comics, from Commando and Doctor Who to Hellblazer and The Hulk. R.C. Harvey selects the best editorial cartoons of 2010. Reviewed: Grant Morrison’s The Return of Bruce Wayne, Tezuka’s Ayoko, Tim Kreider’s Twilight of the Assholes, Robert Venditti’s Homeland Directive, editor Neil Gaiman’s The Best American Comics 2010, Metaphrog’s Louis: Night Salad, Matt Fraction’s Casanova, Desmond Reed’s minis and the latest entries in Fantagraphics’ Ignatz line ... And much more!
Image from “The Evil that Men Do!” written by Peter David and drawn by John Ridgeway, collected in The Incredible Hulk #335 (September 1987) [© Marvel Characters, Inc.]
tcj.com links Feb. 12-Feb. 18
Posted by admin on February 18th, 2011 at 5:59 PMRob Clough’s series on Comics as Poetry, Part One, Part Two.
Mathhias Wivel took in the Moebius exhibit.
Sean Michael Robinson interviewed Cerebus‘ Gerhard gave about craft and technique: Part One, Part Two, Part Three.
R. C. Harvey on virtuosity in cartooning.
Rob Clough got The Broadcast.
R.C. Harvey had the poop on poop in the funny pages.
Shaenon Garrity looked back at City of Glass.
Kristian Williams examined a field guide for use during a zombie attack.
Gavin Lees wants you to help him figure out what’s going on in a panel in Oji Suzuki’s A Single Match.
R.C. Harvey explained how editorial cartoons handled the censorship of Huckleberry Finn.
Rich Kreiner was a good boy this year and got a copy of The Simpsons episode guide as a gift.
Nathan Wilson looked at Liar’s Kiss.
R. C. Harvey pondered the connection between stand-up comedy and comic strips.
An HU brawl about Ebony White spilled over to tcj.com via Tom Crippen.
Belgian Bart Croonenborghs told us about The Girl and the Gorilla.
Jesse Tangen-Mills began an examination of blackface in comics south of the border.
Marco Pellitteri noted the Lucca comics festival mirrored the state of Italian comics.
TCJ Blogs
Top TCJ Stories
- Jason Shiga on Interactive Comics (with video)
- Hail The White Rhinoceros Part Three (of Three): Josh Simmons
- David Roberston: An Interview with John Ridgway (Part One of Two)
- Hail The White Rhinoceros Part One (of Three): Shaun Partridge
- 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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