Rob reviews a variety of mini-comics. Included are So Buttons Holiday Special #1, by Jonathan Baylis, et al; Beloved by E.J. Fletschinger; and Bird Brain #2-4, by Francois Vigneault.
So Buttons Holiday Special #1, by Jonathan Baylis, Thomas Boatwright, …
At HU, the semi-anonymous internet meme/troll known as Cough Syrup creates a psychedelic collage in honor of the cocaine modem of Jason Overby.
Over at The Panelists today, I continue our One-Panel Criticism relay with a look at a Wally Wood panel from All Star Comics #59 (1976).
Today marks the grand opening of the new TCJ sister-blog, The Panelists, featuring Charles Hatfield and Craig Fischer (from Thought Balloonists), Isaac Cates (from Satisfactory Comics), Derik Badman (from Madinkbeard), and Alex Boney and myself (from guttergeek, late of TCJ). We will also have guest bloggers, interviews and random cameos throughout the year, but to start things off and to celebrate the cornball cleverness of our name, we are going to be trading around a half dozen panels for some close readings of various kinds and persuasions. We also have a good old fashioned contest with a really awesome prize, so head on over by clicking the image below (or the one in the upper-righthand corner of the TCJ homepage).
Time for all good men to come to the rescue of a lazy private
Playboy Monday: Selections from Roth’s “An Illustrated History of Sex”
We’re back, me and my rabbit, none the worse for the wear …
At HU, Robert Boyd analyzes sales of Jaime Hernandez original art.
Rob reviews the recent comic by Aidan Koch, The Whale (Gaze Books).
Comics-as-poetry, a relatively recent development in comics, has unsurprisingly developed a number of branches and subgenres. Any comic that favors elliptical storytelling rather than a straight narrative, that …
Over at guttergeek, Alex and I fess up to the books that made 2010 a happier place, and we say goodbye to five years of guttergeek (look for us tomorrow with our new superfriends at TCJ’s The Panelists).
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