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Rob reviews several different comics that tackle the notion of Comics-As-Poetry in their own way. Included are reviews of Annotated #5, by Aaron Cockle and Pines No. 1, by Jason T. Miles.

I’ve long been interested in two related sorts

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Next Week On tcj.com

Posted by admin on February 11th, 2011 at 5:01 PM

Gerhard speaks: an epic interview on the craft behind Cerebus; Matthias Wivel attends the mammoth Moebius retrospective in Paris; Rob Clough begins a series on comics as poetry and reviews The Broadcast; Gavin Lees reviews Oji Suzuki’s A Single Match anthology; and Rick Kreiner immerses himself in The Simpsons Ultimate Episode Guide.

tcj.com links Feb. 4-Feb. 11

Posted by admin on February 11th, 2011 at 5:00 PM

Rob Clough concluded his look at Drawn & Quarterly’s reprints of classic comic books and strips with Doug Wright’s Nipper (1963-1964). Geoff Johns talked to Nathan Wilson about his craft and career: Part One, Part Two. Rob Clough rounded up and reviewed Candy Or Medicine, Devil’s Lake, Desmond Reed minis, Dina Kelberman, The Cornelia Collection. Minis Monday: Rich Kreiner looked at Ophestios, 1890. R.C. Harvey remarked on Dick Locher's retirement from the Dick Tracy strip, and Joe Staton as his replacement. Shaenon Garrity drew readers' attention to exhibits at the Cartoon Art Museum. Kristian Williams reviewed Audrey Niffenegger's The Night Bookmobile. Rob Clough reviewed the 26th issue of the comics zine Mineshaft, edited by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri. R.C. Harvey examined The Wolverton Bible. Donald Phelps wrote an essay on plotting in Billy De Beck's Barney Google. R.C. Harvey looked at how U.S. editorial cartoons depicted the Egyptian conflict. Kent Worcester bids farewell.

Farewell.

Posted by Kent Worcester on February 11th, 2011 at 4:14 PM

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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