This is my last post for www.tcj.com. It’s been fun. I posted 48 entries in 2010; the last one went up on November 9th. A majority of these entries were book reviews, but I also posted three interviews (with Eli…
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The Horror! The Horror!
Posted by Kent Worcester on November 9th, 2010 at 5:39 PMKent reviews the latest coffee table slab from Abrams ComicArts.
Jim Trombetta, The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read! New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2010. 306 pp, full color, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8109-5595-0. Includes a DVD…
The Comic Torah
Posted by Kent Worcester on October 11th, 2010 at 10:33 AMKent reviews a “decidedly unconventional retelling” of the Five Books of Moses.
Aaron Freeman and Sharon Rosenzweig, The Comic Torah: Reimagining the Very Good Book. Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2010. 128 pp, full color. $19.95 paperback. ISBN: 13-978-1-934730-54-6.…
Iraqi Science Fiction Imagery
Posted by Kent Worcester on September 26th, 2010 at 3:03 PMIn the 1980s the Children’s Culture House of Iraq published a series of full-color pamphlets on astronomy, space exploration, the frontiers of science and the like. The image above is taken from the cover of an illustrated guide to…
The Unsinkable Walker Bean, by Aaron Renier
Posted by Kent Worcester on September 21st, 2010 at 6:35 AM
The Unsinkable Walker Bean. Written and illustrated by Aaron Renier, colored by Alec Longstreth. New York: First Second, 2010. 200 pp.; $13.99 full-color paperback. ISBN: 978-1-59643-4530-0.
I remember picking up Spiral-Bound (2005) in a bookstore and wondering what the…
FDR and the New Deal For Beginners, by Paul Buhle, Sabrina Jones and Harvey Pekar
Posted by Kent Worcester on September 14th, 2010 at 9:21 PMFDR and the New Deal for Beginners. Written by Paul Buhle; comics by Sabrina Jones; afterword by Harvey Pekar. Danbury, CT: For Beginners, 2010. 160 pp; $14.99 pb; numerous black-and-white illustrations and short stories. ISBN: 978-1-934389-50-8.
The epic story of…
Greetings from Baghdad
Posted by Kent Worcester on August 25th, 2010 at 3:59 AMGreetings from Baghdad. I’m writing from the International Zone (IZ), which until recently was called the Green Zone. I’m here at the invitation of the Iraqi government, via a Washington, DC-based non-governmental organization. I’ve been here for two weeks, running…
Pterodactyl Fever: An Interview with Brendan Leach
Posted by Kent Worcester on June 28th, 2010 at 5:22 PMBrendan Leach is the creator of one of the year’s most enjoyable comics – The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City. As I noted in an earlier Comics Journal post, Pterodactyl Hunters is a clever mock newspaper…
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