Rob reviews the second collection of Liz Baillie’s webcomic, Freewheel.
Liz Baillie’s ongoing webcomic Freewheel can best be described as a slice-of-life fantasy. Volume 1 of the series (collecting the first five chapters) introduces us to Jamie, the young …
Seeds reflects the rougher edges of storytelling and pacing to be expected from a beginning writer.
Rob reviews Nick Bertozzi’s historical fiction comic, Lewis and Clark (First Second).
Nick Bertozzi is an alt-cartoonist who’s never been easy to categorize. He comes from a mainstream tradition in some ways but has always had an interest in formalism, …
For fans of Diggle and Jock’s collaborations on Green Arrow or The Losers, the publication of Lenny Zero should find an already well-established audience and, potentially, the collected softcover could increase interest here in the U.S. for the world of Mega-City One.
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 …
Rob reviews the fourth and final issue of Gabriella Giandelli’s Interiorae, a title in the joint Fantagraphics/Coconino Press Ignatz series.
Gabriella Giandelli’s Interiorae wound up as one of the most conventional of the Ignatz line of comics. Of course, …
The often-cited dilemma of following a monthly series versus waiting to read the collection, though, still persists. Morrison, unlike many of today’s other mainstream writers, exists quite well within both camps.
Altogether, a nifty package and a delightful read.
Toward the end of that facile Introduction, one that dabbles in a faux-pamphlet comic-scripting format for the rubes, Gaiman suggests a “real title” for the volume as “A Sampler: Some Really Good Comics, Including Extracts from Longer Stories We Thought Could Stand on Their Own” and, as such, finds “It’s not half bad.” The Best American Comics this year, every year, any year, needs to be better than that.
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