Rob reviews Tim Krieder’s collection of political cartoons from 2005-2008, Twilight Of The Assholes (Fantagraphics).
Among the many alternate-world scenarios to consider if Al Gore had won the 2000 Presidential election (or rather, had won the Supreme Court decision) is …
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” — Ernest Hemingway
Today saw the start of the major European comics festival in Angoulême, France. For me, the start meant taking part in an international meeting among the organizers of comics festivals all over Europe. We were all seated around a big …
Rob reviews World War III Illustrated #41 (by various) and Borderland, by Dan Archer & Olga Trusova.
Dan Archer is a young political cartoonist who has been firing off a series of highly well-sourced blasts of polemic for a …
The AltCom weekend is over, and I must say that I am very pleased with how it all turned out. We’ve had a festival for kids and kids’ comics in Malmö for about ten years now, but this was the first all-out adult comics festival and it drew a fair number of visitors, some really interesting guests from all over the world, many publishers and so on.
All images ©2010 Sarah Glidden and DC Comics
Sarah Glidden’s How To Understand Israel In Sixty Days Or Less is an interesting companion piece to Joe Sacco’s Footnotes In Gaza. Both authors are obsessed with telling the truth about the miserable Israel-Palestine conflict and doing so by unearthing the smallest details that can provide clues as to what’s really happened/is happening. Sacco did it by focusing in on one particular historical event, both as an illustration of how this event is still relevant today, but also to show how the vagaries of memory and cultural narrative creation can distort truth into something more convenient. Both authors wanted to go directly to the source and talk to the people living there in order to give a voice to others, but more importantly, to gain a view of the area unfiltered by anyone’s perceptions but their own. In Glidden’s case, as a 26-year-old American who is Jewish, this came in a format that she immediately viewed with suspicion: a “birthright” tour.
Roland Kelts tackles the issues surrounding scanlations.
The last few weeks, the most talked-about occurrence in the Swedish comics community is, without a doubt, the sentencing of a manga translator for the possession of drawn images under the Swedish child pornography act.
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