Kent reviews the new companion volume to Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969.
Dan Nadel, ed. Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980. Abrams, 2010. 304 pp. $40 hardcover. 350 full-color illustrations. ISBN 978-0-8109-8824-8.…
Booth. Written by C.C. Colbert and illustrated by Tanitoc. Color by Hilary Sycamore. 172 pp. $19.95. First Second. ISBN: 978-1-59643-125-6.
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John Wilkes Booth was born in Bel Air, Maryland in 1838, and he died in a …
It turns out there is a quite a bit of Steve Whitaker material on the web. As I noted in an earlier post, Steve Whitaker (1955-2008) was a gifted artist and legendary comics maven who is probably best remembered …
Thanks, Martin, for posting Steve Whitaker artwork on flickr. The new set is lovely.
Who is Steve Whitaker, you ask? According to his wikipedia page, he was born in 1955 and died in early 2008. He was the …
In an earlier post, I wondered whether Will Eisner’s distinction between “instructional” and “entertainment” comics could be applied to the work of someone like Tom Kaczynski, whose mini-comics and short graphic stories are mainly concerned with the play of …
In his online conversation with Derik Badman on madinkbeard about Andrei Molotiu’s Abstract Comics, Craig Fischer says he’s “bummed that [Lewis] Trondheim’s ‘abstract pornography’ didn’t make it into the book.” Two of Trondheim’s pieces did make the cut, including …
The Great Anti-War Cartoons. Edited by Craig Yoe, introduction by Muhammad Yunus. 190 pages: some color, mostly b&w. $24.99. Fantagraphics. ISBN 978-1-606991503.
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“The cartoonist makes people see things!” In a different context, this phrase might refer …
Eisner recognized that the line between instructional and entertainment comics is fuzzy, of course. A detective story might include instructions in how to open a safe, for example, while an illustrated manual might include visual gags. But he nevertheless assumed these were the only options. A particular comic might combine the two elements in some novel way, but the possibilities of the medium were bound up with these two categories.
I’m not convinced.
If the phrase “left Shachtmanite” rings a bell, then you have probably heard of a magazine called New Politics. Currently published twice a year by an all-volunteer editorial collective, the journal was launched in 1961 by Phyllis and Julius …
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