The Comics Journal » Journalista http://classic.tcj.com The Comics Journal is a magazine that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective. Tue, 29 May 2012 18:30:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Journalista for Dec. 22, 2010: Delinked http://classic.tcj.com/news/journalista-for-dec-22-2010-delinked/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=journalista-for-dec-22-2010-delinked http://classic.tcj.com/news/journalista-for-dec-22-2010-delinked/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:12:09 +0000 Dirk Deppey http://www.tcj.com/?p=27068 The house lights come up, and people stand up from their seats. Where did we park the car, again...?]]>  

 

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From The Revenge of Bakamé.

 

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  • International comics: Bart Croonenborghs looks at Jeroen Janssen and Pieter van Oudheusden’s The Revenge of Bakamé.

  • Roland Kelts discusses a few of 2010′s gift-worthy Japanese pop-culture gift books.

  • As always, R.C. Harvey covers the funny pages.

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, James Romberger discusses his longtime association with David Wojnarowicz, the artist whose work was recently at the center of a censorship controversy at the Smithsonian.

And in the news…

 

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Life in interesting times

  • In Japan, “The Daily Gendai newspaper reported on Thursday that the recently passed amendment to the Youth Healthy Development Ordinance does not apply to electronic data that is viewed on mobile sites or downloaded.” If this story has been confusing you a bit, you’re not alone. fortunately, Brian Ruh breaks it down for you.

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  • Brigid Alverson speaks with Kids Can Press editors Tara Walker and Karen Li about the process of launching a graphic-novel line.

 

Today’s Format WarsTM report

  • Another webcomics content-scraper app is discovered out in the wild. Gary Tyrrell has the details.

 

Joe McCulloch: New this week

A look at the best-sounding books scheduled to hit the comics shops today.

 

 

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And finally…

 

Let’s get the important stuff out of the way first. The three best sources for comics-related news are The Comics Reporter, Robot 6 and Bleeding Cool. They span the funnybook spectrum, with Spurgeon the least concerned with Wednesday Crowd comics, Johnston the most concerned, and Robot 6 somewhere in the middle. ICv2 offers the news from a retail/distribution perspective. Down the Tubes covers the U.K., while Sequential keeps track of Canada. Alan Gardner and Michael Cavna de-emphasize comic books and graphic novels (but don’t avoid them entirely) to concentrate on other forms of cartoon art, because really, someone should, you know?

Resources: Comic Blog Updates and Update-A-Tron keep track of the comics blogosphere. Bookmark them now. The Grand Comics Database catalogues comic books, and has a handy searchable database. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Hero Initiative are entirely worthy, comics-related charities. ComicsPRO is a trade organization for comics retailers. If you want to know how to make that inverted exclamation point in ¡Journalista!, you can always look it up.

Some bloggers specialize, mixing information and commentary. Bugpowder covers the U.K. small-press scene, while The Daily Cross Hatch focuses on small-press America. Daryl Cagle covers editorial cartoons. Good Comics For Kids is all about what it says on the marquee. ComixTalk and Fleen round up the webcomics news. When Fangirls Attack is a feminist comics-fan linkblogger. Graphic NYC documents the Big Apple, Strippers Guide digs into comic-strip archeology, and Neil Cohn obsesses over academic theory and experimentation.

(Edited later to add:) Almost forgot: If you want to learn about the Philippines’ long and proud komiks tradition, Gerry Alanguilan‘s the guy you want to talk to. He pretty much owns the topic. (Sorry, Gerry.)

Digging into the blogosphere, Comics Comics is easily the most essential source for commentary and criticism, with Paul Gravett in close competition. Also worth a look: Attentiondeficitdisorderly, Comics Worth Reading, The Cool Kids Table, Death to the Universe, Factual Opinion, 4th Letter, Graphic Novel Review, Read About Comics, Savage Critics and Trouble With Comics.

Anime News Network is the 800-pound gorilla of English-language Japanese pop-culture news sites, while Japanator is a smarter Anime News Network, About Manga is more user-friendly, Same Hat is just weird, Sankaku Complex is just perverted, Okazu covers yuri culture, and Manga Blog links to all of it. Also recommended: All About Manga, MangaCast, The Manga Critic, Manga Xanadu and Precocious Curmudgeon.

There are a variety of professionally run news sites catering to the great Direct Market reservation, including The Beat, Broken Frontier, ComicMix, Comics Alliance and iFanboy. Mindless Ones do commentary well.

 

 

And with that out of the way, well, there’s not a lot to say that hasn’t already been drunk-Tweeted, but let me do it sober this time.

In the last ten years, I’ve thrown away a career, assembled porn mailers, drawn comics, written essays, raised money for a homeless cartoonist, organized Seattle’s worst benefit concert ever, digitized hundreds of hours of cassette tapes containing (I think) the largest oral history of comics in the United States, started a weblog, kick-started a blogosphere, attended a bunch of geek festivals (including four San Diego Comic-Cons in a row), edited a magazine, interviewed cartoonists whom I greatly admired, got quoted in major newspapers on topics in which I was often unqualified to hold a quoteworthy opinion, became several bibliography citations, became a footnote, became an Internet micro-celebrity, became a Wikipedia entry (it reads “mostly harmless”), helped facilitate a manga line and spent a full four years working from home in my living room, naked! And I got paid to do all of it.

Jesus Christ, do I ever have nothing to complain about. It’s been a blast. Alas, it’s been obvious for some time now that the magazine can’t support a full-time blogger. I’m grateful to Gary Groth for refusing to pull the trigger for as long as he has. I’m also grateful to him and Kim Thompson for giving me the opportunity to work with people like Michael Dean, Kristy Valenti, Adam Grano, Milo George, Peppy White, Ilse Driggs, Michael Dowers, Carrie Whitney, Eric Reynolds, Greg Zura, Jen Ralston and everyone else at Fantagraphics. Working with you guys justified my existence. Thank you all for putting up with me. Thanks also to everyone who blogged, e-mailed and tweeted their best wishes. It was incredibly flattering.

My next act will be… nothing. A good two weeks of nothing, at least. Then we’ll see. But first: Nothing. After ten years, I think I’ve earned it.

FIRSTNAME@LASTNAME.com, by the way.

 

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- Yr. humble servant (until tomorrow, anyway)

 

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From “Your Earth Cats Are Delicious” in Nymphonomena, by and ©2010 Betsey Swardlick.

 

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  • Rich Kreiner reviews the Lee/Kirby collection Thor: Tales of Asgard, plus the small-press anthology Nymphonomena.

  • Rob Clough reviews the second volume of the Funny Aminals anthology.

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Noah Berlatsky talks about Moto Hagio as artist and/or as genre writer for girls.

The news, etc…

 

Above the Fold

 

Life in interesting times

  • Mike Lynch reports that William T. Keough died last Friday at the age of 74:

    Bill was the most recent editor of the GAG RECAP trade journal, a professional insider prozine aimed exclusively at gag cartoonists. He edited a number of other journals, including CARTOON OPPORTUNITIES.

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  • According to Rich Johnston, DC Comics will be making some regressive changes to new creator-ownership contracts. See the link for details.

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  • Also via Mr. Johnston, word that Chicago’s Brainstorm Movies, Comics and Gaming is up for sale.

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  • Over at Reason Magazine, Lars Hvidberg and Jacob Mchangama look at the state of free speech in Denmark, five years after the Killer Danish Muhammed Cartoons first appeared in the pages of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

 

 

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Business and Craft

 

 

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Tomorrow: Final thoughts.

 

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From Understanding Comics, ©1993 Scott McCloud.

 

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  • R.C. Harvey restates his definition of comics, reigniting his grudge match with Scott McCloud on the subject.

  • International comics: Fredrik Stromberg looks at the best Swedish graphic novels of 2010.

  • Rob Clough reviews the anthology Werewolf!!!, edited by Penina Gal, Josh Rosen, Betsey Swardlick and Nick Patten.

  • More classic Playboy cartoons, courtesy of Tom Crippen.

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, “Kinukitty” reviews the yaoi manga Stray Cat, Richard Cook presents a historical gallery of comics covers featuring Santa Claus, and Alex Buchet continues his series on comics’ influence on language.

And in the news…

 

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Life in interesting times

  • DC Comics colorist Adrienne Roy died December 14 after losing a year-long battle with cancer. She was 57 years old.

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  • The Belgin cartoonist Marc Henniquiau, best known for illustrating the BD series Alix, died yesterday at the age of 52.

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    Detail from the cover of Eiki Eiki’s Dear Myself.

  • Pro-censorship Tokyo metropolitan assemblyman Masatsugu Mihara “has outraged manga fans by publicly exposing and then ridiculing a BL mangaka who put her name to an anti-ban petition sent to him.”

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  • The Finnish comics shop Pitkämies is calling it quits.

    (Link via the Daily Cross Hatch.)

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  • Here’s further commentary on the financial difficulties facing Berkeley, California shop Comic Relief, courtesy of Frances Dinkelspiel and Rich Johnston.

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  • Devil’s Due Publishing founder Josh Blaylock asks whether February 2011 will be a funnybook massacre for the Direct Market.

    (Link via Heidi MacDonald.)

 

Today’s Format WarsTM report

  • Japanese comics publisher Square Enix has begun offering online rentals of its works:

    Through the new service, SQUARE ENIX aims to provide a global audience with easy access to localized versions of its popular manga titles through streaming. Also, through cooperation with regional localization/publishing companies, SQUARE ENIX will endeavor to promote both print and online versions of its manga titles globally. Furthermore, it is the company’s aim for the official online distribution service to serve as a deterrent against illegal downloading and piracy.

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  • Vaneta Rogers talks to ComiXology CEO David Steinberger about his company’s ongoing expansion into the Android smartphone platform.

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  • Brigid Alverson frets over Apple’s “walled kingdom of digital comics.”

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  • Lori Henderson looks at some recent good and bad ideas in the digital-comics market.

 

 

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Profiles

 

  • Nicolas Verstappen on Kan Takahama

    How did I miss this interview with the author of Monokuro Kinderbook? More importantly: Why haven’t we seen an English translation of her work in five years?

 

Also

 

Reviews

 

  • J. Caleb Mozzocco on Picture This


    ©2010 Lynda Barry.

    “Throughout, aesthetic and philosophical questions are asked, meditated on and answered, only the answers are either personal — This is my answer, what’s yours? — or open-ended. Here‘s a catalog of the types of doodles Barry makes, and you can make, if you want.”

 

Also

 

Commentary

 

  • Paul Gravett on Moebius

    “From sci-fi fantasies to gritty westerns, welcome to the incredible double life of Moebius and Jean Giraud, the two sides of one of France’s most brilliant comics geniuses.”

 

Also

 

Comics and Art

 

  • Ger Apeldoorn: Klaus Nordling’s Pen Miller

    “Much has been written these days about the first artists to compose the whole page as a visual unit, such as Jack Kirby or Mort Meskin. Together with Will Eisner, Nordling was one of the artists promoting the use of the title lettering in the splash page. I guess Eisner started it, but there seems to have been a rivalry about who could come up with the cleverest design. And my money isn’t necessarily on Eisner. The comic book industry lost a great artist when Nordling decided to do something else in the early fifties.”

 

Also

 

Multimedia

 

  • YouTube: Howard Cruse draws a holiday picture

    The author of Stuck Rubber Baby walks you through the creation of his season’s-greeting card for the year.

    (Link via Alison Bechdel.)

 

Events Calendar

 

Today:

 

  • Dec. 20 (Naga City, Philippines): The Bikol Komiks Convention takes place at Mudbugs on Penafrancia Avenue. Details here.

  • Dec. 20 (Arlington, VA): Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson will be signing books and meeting readers at the One More Page Bookstore on Westmoreland Street, from 7-9PM. Details here.

 

Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. Please include an online link to which I can send people for more information. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here. (Note: Under no circumstances will I link to a Facebook page. Seriously, what idiot “advertises” their event solely on a website that requires registration to see the advertisement?)

 

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  • Donald Phelps discusses Frank Owen’s 1930s comic strip, Ossie Tittle.

    (Incidentally, about the lack of an illustration above: How little information and/or art examples are there about Ossie Tittle available? Little enough that a Google search on the subject is, for the moment, a great way to find websites that steal content from TCJ.com.)

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Vom Marlowe talks about some reference resources for drawing people who do not have washboard ads.

And in the news…

 

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Life in interesting times

  • In Tokyo, event organizer Takamagahara has announced plans to host a dōjin event — “dōjin” involves amateur comics, in case you didn’t know — that would spotlight works based upon Tokyo governor/manga-censorship supporter Shintaro Ishihara’s racy novels.

    (Right: poster for Taiyō no Kisetsu ["Season of the Sun"], a film about young people involved in a lustful menage a trois, based upon the 1955 novel by Shintaro Ishihara.)

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  • Heidi MacDonald catches word that NYC comics shop Cosmic Comics will remain open after all, albeit under new management. Across the country in California, however, there’s speculation that Berkeley shop Comic Relief is in danger of folding, although the exact narrative is under dispute: Here’s Rachel Swan in one corner, and here’s Eric Stephenson in the other.

    (Hat tip to Deb Aoki for the Comic Relief links.)

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  • Brian Hibbs suspects that the comics industry — well, the Direct Market portions of it — is headed in the wrong direction.

 

 

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Profiles

 

  • Tasha Robinson on Lynda Barry

    “People always assume my work is autobiographical. One! Hundred! Demons! was the first real, straight-ahead… I mean, if you see Filipinos in there, then you know I’m talking about my life. I’ve struggled with depression forever. I mean, I struggle with it. You know, it’s not one of those little cute things like that Zoloft commercial, where they have that little creature, that little jellybean, looking sad. It ain’t like that. It’s more like having swallowed a running chainsaw, and you don’t know what to do or where to turn. [Laughs.] That’s what it feels like to me.”

 

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Reviews

 

  • Mindless Ones on Batwoman #0


    ©2010 DC Comics.

    “The issue overall is only unintentionally funny really, unless it’s a masterpiece of delicate deadpan humour which — if true, is going to make the next few hundred words a bit pathetic — but it’s still [J.H. Williams III], so it’s still got a couple of semi-breathtaking moments in there.”

 

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Commentary

 

  • Tucker Stone: The year in stank

    “And yet, there was another crop of comics that came out this year from ye old Big Two. Not the bad ones–the filler tie-ins, the banal mini-series, the things about vampires in Ancient Rome. No, the comics I’m talking about are the mind-blowingly wrong ones, the ones that you–and me! I’m totally talking about me right now!–bought just so you could see if what you’d heard was true, if there really was a Santa Claus, and if he really was getting castrated on a bridge by a team of Girl Scouts after denying them the ponies they so required.”

 

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Comics and Art

 

  • Mykal Banta: Comic Cavalcade #55

    Classic funny-animal comics to round out the week, featuring work by Jim Davis (the Golden Age guy, not the Garfield guy) and Sheldon Mayer.

 

Also

 

Multimedia

 

  • Comics-related podcasts

    • Recently on Inkstuds: Robin McConnell speaks with Nate Neal (48.3MB), plus a recording of Frank Santoro’s conversation with Kevin Huizenga and Jim Rugg (39.4MB), recorded on-stage at the Pittsburgh Indy Comics Expo in October.
    • Panel Borders‘ Alex Fitch interviews Mouse Guard creator David Petersen (31.9MB).
    • Criticism and commentary: The folks at Manga Out Loud discussKou Yaginuma’s Twin Spica (49.2MB); the Mindless Ones discuss Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher (24.8MB); and we’ve got new episodes of House to Astonish (58.8MB), Fourcast (32.6MB) and Wait, What? (one [58.3MB], two [104.6MB]).

    All podcasts are in downloadable MP3 audiofile format.

 

Events Calendar

 

Today:

 

  • Dec. 17-18 (Staten Island, NY): A host of cartoonists will help celebrate the third anniversary of Comic Book Jones on Forest Avenue. Details here.

  • Dec. 17 (Ann Arbor, MI): The University of Michigan Flint’s 2010 Comics and Visual Narrative class will be selling comics and meeting readers at the Vault of Midnight on Main Street, from 4-6PM. Details here.

 

Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. Please include an online link to which I can send people for more information. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here. (Note: Under no circumstances will I link to a Facebook page. Seriously, what idiot “advertises” their event solely on a website that requires registration to see the advertisement?)

 

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“Getting new readers into comics is something that we are horrible at as an industry. I love Free Comic Book Day, and it is a spectacular event, but there is nothing we have that helps explain to people that we have new comics every week. New stories every month. We all assume that people know how to read periodical comics, whether print or digital, and let me just use a big word here, those are fallacious assumptions! We need to dig deeper right now than just seeing digital as the panacea to all of the comic book industry’s problems.”

- Boom! Studios marketing director Chip Mosher

 

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From Artichoke Tales, ©2010 Megan Kelso.

 

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  • Rob Clough reviews Megan Kelso’s Artichoke Tales.

  • Rob Clough reviews the first issue of alt-genre anthology Elf World.

  • More classic Playboy cartoons, courtesy of Tom Crippen.

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Ryan Standfest continues the discussion of socialist cartoonist Art Young.

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  • New York City’s Cosmic Comics will be shutting down on December 31.

    (Link via Heidi MacDonald.)

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  • Marc-Oliver Frisch presents his month-to-month estimates for sales of DC Comics product to Direct Market retailers, now updated for October.

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  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Mark Willacy is an incompetent hack:

    Manga comics often show child and other hardcore pornography with extreme depictions of rape, incest and other sex crimes.

    In other news, American films often show double penetration… after all, it can sometimes be found in U.S. porn videos, right?

 

 

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Profiles

 

  • Douglas Wolk on Dylan Meconis

    The Family Man cartoonist explains how she financed publication of the first collection of her series.

    (Link via Brigid Alverson.)

 

Also

 

Reviews

 

  • Seth Kushner on Scenes From an Impending Marriage


    ©2010 Adrian Tomine.

    “The small format and 52-page length make it feel reminiscent of a Jeffrey Brown book, as does the somewhat sketchy style utilized here, as opposed to the artist’s usual clean brush storkes. But, the storytelling is all Tomine.”

 

Also

 

Commentary

 

  • Xaviar Xerexes: 2010 digital-comics roundtable

    “For this year’s roundtable we talked about favorite and new webcomics from 2010, the impact of the iPad and other digital devices, the changes in the comics industry landscape, awards for webcomics and much more about the state of digital comics in 2010. I’m joined by Brigid Alverson, Larry Cruz, Lauren Davis, Brian Heater, Heidi MacDonald, Rick Marshall and Gary Tyrrell.”

 

Also

 

Comics and Art

 

  • New website: Cartoon Movement


    Page detail from Afghan Life, by and ©2010 Matt Bors.

    “A global collaborative platform for editorial cartoons and comics journalism.”

 

Also

 

Multimedia

 

  • Kevin Kallaugher at the World in 2011 Festival

    Video (plus a collection of sketches) from the editorial cartoonist’s appearance at an event sponsored by The Economist in New York City.

    (Link via Mike Rhode.)

 

Comics Culture

 

  • Warren Bernard: The Kyoto International Manga Museum

    “One of the nice things about going overseas is seeing how much more other countries respect comics than we do in the United States. Though indeed we invented many elements of the medium, we still are far behind our international counterparts in giving comics and cartooning their due in a museum environment.”

 

  • Sarah McIntyre: Posy Simmonds in London

    “These are some of my doodly notes. Posy’s work played a huge part of bringing me back to comics as something I could connect with and see as a remarkable storytelling medium.”

 

  • Your Not-Comics Link of the Day:

    Bob Levin looks at the various iterations of Ntozake Shange’s multimedia piece, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.

 

Events Calendar

 

Today:

 

  • Dec. 16 (London, England): Pat Mills and Jenny McDade discuss their years writing U.K. girls’ comics at the London Print Studio on Harrow Road, from 6:30-8:30PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 16 (New York City, NY): The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s annual Member Appreciation Holiday Party takes place at the Twins Pub on Ninth Avenue, beginning at 8PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 16 (Los Angeles, CA): The Comics and Comics podcast presents its third-anniversary show at Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard. The starting time is a secret. Details here.

 

This Week:

 

  • Dec. 17-18 (Staten Island, NY): A host of cartoonists will help celebrate the third anniversary of Comic Book Jones on Forest Avenue. Details here.

  • Dec. 17 (Ann Arbor, MI): The University of Michigan Flint’s 2010 Comics and Visual Narrative class will be selling comics and meeting readers at the Vault of Midnight on Main Street, from 4-6PM. Details here.

 

Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. Please include an online link to which I can send people for more information. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here. (Note: Under no circumstances will I link to a Facebook page. Seriously, what idiot “advertises” their event solely on a website that requires registration to see the advertisement?)

 

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“The media, such as newspapers or broadcasters, may eventually get tied up little by little by law, and citizens may start becoming blind and deaf.”

- Manga artist Chiba

 

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Detail from Jaime Hernandez’ cover to the CBGB anthology.

 

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  • Gavin Lees reviews the new CBGB comics anthology.

  • GutterGeek‘s Jared Gardner reviews Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library #20.

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Life in interesting times

  • Here we go:

    The Tokyo metropolitan assembly on Wednesday enacted an ordinance to toughen regulations on the sale of ‘manga’ comic books and anime containing ‘extreme’ depictions of sexual acts, despite claims from writers and publishers that it could breach freedom of expression and stifle creativity.

    (Left: detail from a chapter page for Kaworu Watashiya’s notorious sex-crazed-elementary-schoolgirl manga series, Kodomo no Jikan.)

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  • “Bookstore sales fell 2.5% in October to an even $1 billion, according to estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.”

 

Today’s Format WarsTM report

  • Are United States border authorities seizing computers over the comics they contain?

 

Joe McCulloch: New this week

A look at the best-sounding books scheduled to hit the comics shops today.

 

 

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Reviews

 

  • Graeme McMillan on Stigmata


    Possibly ©2010 Claudio Piersanti and Lorenzo Mattotti.

    “It’s [...] fair to say, perhaps, that the art in Stigmata follows the writing — it’s messy and personal and organic and, at times, achingly beautiful — but it does more than that: Mattotti’s line is amazing, so filled with personality and intensity, at once angry and fiercely controlled, and used in the service of some amazing draughtsmanship and visionary visuals.”

 

Also

 

Commentary

 

  • SANE Journal: First issue now online

    Announcing the debut of a new academic journal devoted to comics.

    (Link via Sean Kleefeld.)

 

  • Kristy Valenti: In which I overthink it

    “I was not very much impressed with an introduction to a graphic novel I recently read; it was just a series of e-mails back and forth between three people jokingly passing responsibility along to one another until space and word count ran out. Then, of course, I was asked for an intro (by ComiXology’s own Shaenon Garrity, for her upcoming Narbonic omnibus), and I struggled with it. I still think their intro was terrible, but now I understand some of their (probably not-quite-feigned) reluctance. It was the hardest writing assignment I’ve had in a long, long time.”

 

Comics and Art

 

  • Mike Dawson: Troop 142


    ©2010 Mike Dawson.

    Dawson’s graphic novel, about a Boy-Scout outing in the 1990s, is now complete and online.

 

Also

 

Events Calendar

 

Today:

 

  • Dec. 15 (East Lansing, MI): The University of Michigan Flint’s 2010 Comics and Visual Narrative class present their final projects at 21st Century Comics and Games on Grand River, from 5-7PM. Details here.

 

This Week:

 

  • Dec. 16 (London, England): Pat Mills and Jenny McDade discuss their years writing U.K. girls’ comics at the London Print Studio on Harrow Road, from 6:30-8:30PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 16 (New York City, NY): The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s annual Member Appreciation Holiday Party takes place at the Twins Pub on Ninth Avenue, beginning at 8PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 16 (Los Angeles, CA): The Comics and Comics podcast presents its third-anniversary show at Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard. The starting time is a secret. Details here.

  • Dec. 17 (Ann Arbor, MI): The University of Michigan Flint’s 2010 Comics and Visual Narrative class will be selling comics and meeting readers at the Vault of Midnight on Main Street, from 4-6PM. Details here.

 

Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. Please include an online link to which I can send people for more information. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here. (Note: Under no circumstances will I link to a Facebook page. Seriously, what idiot “advertises” their event solely on a website that requires registration to see the advertisement?)

 

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“In the last decade or so, at least from where I’m sitting, the story has gone from ‘BIFF! POW! Comics Aren’t Just For Kids Anymore‘ to ‘No, Seriously, Comics Aren’t for Kids; He Really Shouldn’t Be Looking At That.‘”

 

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Detail from the cover of Tragic Relief #10, ©2010 Colleen Frakes.

 

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  • Nathan Wilson presents a two-part discussion on digital illustration with DC Comics artist Freddie E. Williams II: one, two. And here’s the second half of Williams’ video demonstration.

  • Rich Kreiner reviews the ninth and tenth issues of Colleen Frakes’ small-press series, Tragic Relief.

  • Rob Clough reviews a variety of recent works by Josh Blair.

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Noah Berlatsky looks at Reinhard Kleist’s biography of Johnny Cash, I See a Darkness, while Caroline Small reviews a traveling exhibit of Vorticist art.

And in the news…

 

Above the Fold

 

Life in interesting times

  • South African president Jacob Zuma has filed a $700,000 defamation suit against the Sunday Times newspaper and its notorious cartoonist Zapiro, over a 2008 political cartoon depicting the ANC politician about to rape the justice system (shown below).

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  • “The only witness who puts Michael George at his comic book store the day his wife, Barbara George, was killed there — testified Monday that a meeting with police detailed in a book by a former Free Press reporter did take place, despite its lack of mention in police files.”

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  • Two years after a knife-wielding lunatic killed seven people, otaku pedestrians are once again welcome in Tokyo’s Akihabara district.

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  • Mike Grell has been named editor-in-chief of Ardden Entertainment.

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  • Paul O’Brien presents his month-to-month estimates of Marvel Entertainment’s sales of comic books to Direct Market retailers, now updated for October.

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  • Erica Friedman contemplates Tokyo’s threatened censorship law.

 

Today’s Format WarsTM report

  • You know, I’d be more inclined to believe that “In 2010, comics owned the iPad” if (A) I knew how well book-related apps did compared to other kinds of apps, (B) I knew how well the successful comics-related apps did relative to, say, the Kindle app, and (C) someone were willing to supply definitive and reliable numbers for any of this.

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    From a recent installment of Cat and Girl, ©2010 Dorothy Gambrell.

  • A few months back, Cat and Girl creator Dorothy Gambrell posted an update to her itemized charts detailing how much she’d made this year, and I’d have totally missed it were it not for the diligence of Mr. Gary Tyrrell, to whom all thanks are owed.

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  • Dylan Horrocks (temporary link) discusses the conflict between digital content and copyright.

 

 

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Profiles

 

  • Ariel Schrag on Gabrielle Bell

    “I definitely prefer reading fiction to reading comics, except for a very small percentage of comics. And when I was a teenager I wanted to be a fiction writer. I’m much more interested in films, too. I feel like I’m more interested in the potential of comics, rather than what they’ve already accomplished, whereas with films and novels I’m interested in what they’ve already accomplished.”

 

Also

 

Reviews

 

  • Andrew Wheeler and Jared Gniewek on Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist


    ©2010 Sophie Crumb.

    Two views of the new collection of a lifetime’s worth of drawings.

 

Also

 

Commentary

 

  • Brian Palmer: Political cartoons in the Muslim world

    “If anything, the art of the political cartoon is more vibrant in those places than it is in Europe and the United States. For one thing, it’s safer in some countries to express controversial ideas in caricature than to spell them out in sentences and paragraphs.”

 

Also

 

Comics and Art

 

  • Ger Apeldoorn: Mort Walker & Co.’s Mrs. Fitz’s Flats and Tillie the Toiler

    Two obscure strips by the creator of Beetle Bailey and his various collaborators.

 

Also

 

Comics Culture

 

  • Lori Weisberg: Comic-Con to make third attempt at online ticket sales

    Wednesday, 8AM PST. Here we go again.

 

  • Your Not-Comics Link of the Day:

    Sometime in the next few years, an artifact crafted by human hands will enter interstellar space for the first time. Amazing.

 

Events Calendar

 

Today:

 

  • Dec. 14 (Bethesda, MD): Richard Thompson will be signing books and meeting readers at Big Planet Comics on Fairmont Avenue, from 7-9PM. Details here.

 

This Week:

 

  • Dec. 15 (East Lansing, MI): The University of Michigan Flint’s 2010 Comics and Visual Narrative class present their final projects at 21st Century Comics and Games on Grand River, from 5-7PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 16 (London, England): Pat Mills and Jenny McDade discuss their years writing U.K. girls’ comics at the London Print Studio on Harrow Road, from 6:30-8:30PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 16 (Los Angeles, CA): The Comics and Comics podcast presents its third-anniversary show at Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard. The starting time is a secret. Details here.

  • Dec. 17 (Ann Arbor, MI): The University of Michigan Flint’s 2010 Comics and Visual Narrative class will be selling comics and meeting readers at the Vault of Midnight on Main Street, from 4-6PM. Details here.

 

Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. Please include an online link to which I can send people for more information. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here. (Note: Under no circumstances will I link to a Facebook page. Seriously, what idiot “advertises” their event solely on a website that requires registration to see the advertisement?)

 

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“Yes, I was really shocked — I was astonished and responded ‘Really? Really? It’s come to that now already?’”

- Boys’-love cartoonist Shouko Takaku

 

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From Freddie Williams’ demonstration video.

 

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  • Roland Kelts examines Peepo Choo cartoonist Felipe Smith’s career as a manga artist in Japan.

  • Here’s the first installment of a two-part video, in which DC Comics artist Freddie Williams demonstrates his digital-illustration process.

  • Rob Clough offers short takes on a number of funny minicomics.

  • More classic Playboy cartoons and illustrations, courtesy of Tom Crippen.

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Sean Michael Robinson discusses Mitsuru Adachi and the difficulties of selling sport genre manga, Alex Buchet continues his series on comics’ contribution to language, and Eric Berlatsky discusses comics, time, relativity and modernity.

And in the news…

 

Above the Fold

 

Life in interesting times

  • Early this morning, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly’s general affairs committee voted to approve a revised bill, based upon earlier drafts that targeted comics, animation or videogames featuring characters under 18 years of age depicted in sexual situations, but has been greatly expanded to regulate the sale of works that “unjustifiably glorify or exaggerate” depictions of a wide variety of socially unapproved sexual activities. A vote will be held on the bill in the full Assembly on Wednesday, where Democratic Party of Japan legislators have already agreed to support its passage — with the addition of “a supplementary resolution [...] which requests the prudent application of the law.” (One wonders what Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara would have to say about that.) Meanwhile, Japan’s leading manga publishers have vowed to boycott next year’s Tokyo International Anime Fair in response.

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    Screenshot from this Telegraph video, in which Lars Vilks discusses the bombing.

  • In Stockholm, Sweden, two bomb blasts exploded on Saturday afternoon. Two bystanders were injured, and a man suspected as being one of the bombers was killed in one of the explosions:

    Shortly before the blasts, Swedish news agency TT received a threatening letter referring to Sweden’s presence in Afghanistan and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad drawn by [Lars Vilks,] a Swedish cartoonist. The letter included digital sound files with a recording in broken Swedish and in Arabic.

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  • The headline says it all: “Diamond Comic Distributors one of the 222 Obamacare exemption companies.”

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  • The lead in those Wonder Woman drinking glasses? A-OK with Uncle Sam, so long as it’s fanboys drinking from them, and not little kids. Translation: Die, fanboy, die.

 

 

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Profiles

 

  • Paul Gravett on Mustashrik

    “I think the real factor in regards to business in comics is what region of the world you are in and how original your voice as creator, storyteller, is. In my experience, especially in regards to the UK, the market is so small that I don’t really regard it as a successful business venture currently, and as a medium it can be hard to get your own idea published as everything is dictated by commerce. Whereas in France from what I can see/read/hear for example, the comics culture flourishes to the equal level of art, because it is art, and they understand that there.”

 

Also

 

Reviews

 

  • Tucker Stone on New Character Parade


    ©2010 Johnny Ryan.

    “The change could be Prison Pit, it could be Angry Youth # 14, but more likely, those are mere outgrowths of a more exciting development: he’s moved on. He’s written the best shit joke, his best rape gag, his funniest story about two kids who kill one another. What he’s doing now — toying with a formula he arguably perfected back in the early pages of Comics Book Holocaust — is exploring the tangential gags that made that last issue of Angry Youth such a revelation.”

 

Also

 

Commentary

 

  • Michel Fiffe on Kyle Baker

    “Kyle Baker used to draw with pencils and ink and white out and paper back in the 80s. According to his high school classmates, he used to ink Marvel Comics assignments on the NYC Subway trains. Baker would later describe this inking technique to The Comics Journal as ‘expressionistic.’ By the mid-90s, he started toying with computers and he hasn’t looked back since. Much to a few purists’ chagrin, he’s almost completely abandoned the old ways in order to make room for the new.”

 

Also

  • Kiel Phegley: Brenda Starr… the rest of the story
  • Noah Berlatsky: Odd superheroine out
  • Douglas Wolk: Ten comics we’re still waiting for
  • Bob Temuka: 18 observations after a long weekend spent largely in the comic shop and second-hand bookstores of Sydney, Australia
  • Chris Sims: How the fabricated A.V. Club review messed it up for the rest of us

 

Business and Craft

 

  • Josh Blair: Thoughts on Etsy

    “Etsy has been a strange cat for me. Sometime I forget that I even have comics for sale on there until I get an order. I’ve never been big into the Etsy community. I tried once and didn’t get much out of it. But I have done pretty well, in comparison to my other sales efforts.”

 

Comics and Art

 

  • Kate Beaton: New York sketches


    ©2010 Kate Beaton.

    A reminder, in case you’d forgotten, that Kate Beaton is a cartoon genius.

 

Also

 

Comics Culture

 

 

Also

 

 

Events Calendar

 

Today:

 

  • Dec. 13 (London, England): Posy Simmonds will talk comics at the Rag Factory on Heneage Street, from 6:30-9:30PM. Details here.

 

This Week:

 

  • Dec. 14 (Bethesda, MD): Richard Thompson will be signing books and meeting readers at Big Planet Comics on Fairmont Avenue, from 7-9PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 16 (London, England): Pat Mills and Jenny McDade discuss their years writing U.K. girls’ comics at the London Print Studio on Harrow Road, from 6:30-8:30PM. Details here.

 

Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. Please include an online link to which I can send people for more information. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here. (Note: Under no circumstances will I link to a Facebook page. Seriously, what idiot “advertises” their event solely on a website that requires registration to see the advertisement?)

 

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“Comics’ relationship to their own history often feels like a marriage where one partner’s potential is being really held back in order to protect or build up the ego of the other partner. And I like comics better than I like comics history, so I say ‘girlfriend, leave!’ Comics > cartooning.”

 

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From Low Moon, ©2009 Jason.

 

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  • R. Fiore presents his latest aphorism.

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Jason Overby talks about what’s been gained and lost as comics have gained a wider cultural place.

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Life in interesting times

  • “Borders third quarter results, released just after the market closed Thursday afternoon, provided little sign that the company is turning around as total revenue fell 17.6%, to $470.9 million and comparable store sales dropped 12.6%.”

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  • Another legacy strip finally leaves the funny pages, decades too late to do the comic-strip form any good.

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  • Mark Waid is leaving his position as chief creative officer at Boom! Studios.

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  • “BookScan, the A.C. Nielsen service that tracks book sales using point-of-purchase information in thousands of bookstores — plus online sales from Amazon — has now made its sales data available through Amazon.”

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  • Matthew Murray presents his month-to-month estimates for sales of selected genre-based indy titles to Direct Market retailers, now updated for October.

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  • Andrew Girdwood interviews retailer Joe Gordon, of London’s Forbidden Planet.

 

 

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Profiles

 

  • Ezra Winton on Joe Sacco

    “Whenever I went to some place, I thought, these people aren’t going to talk to a cartoonist. I mean, what politician or general is going to say, ‘Oh, a cartoonist? Yes, let him in and I’ll give him my time.’ So, almost by default you end up in cafes and bars and places like that where you’re mixing with people more than you are with those in charge, the ones who call the shots.”

 

Also

 

Reviews

 

  • Sean Kleefeld on Francis Sharp in the Grip of the Uncanny


    ©2010 Brittney Sabo and Anna Bratton.

    “At some level, the book has a Wizard of Oz/Alice in Wonderland notion running through it. Young kid who doesn’t care for his/her home life falls into a magical realm, and learns to appreciate how great home really is. What strikes me as somewhat different here, though, is that, while Francis is surprised and apprehensive about this new world, it bears a number of similarities to his old world.”

 

Also

 

Commentary

 

  • Stephen R. Bissette on Gary Arlington

    “I met Gary Arlington during that first trip in November, 1978, a trip which began with the headlines about the Guyana suicide ‘massacre’ hitting front page newspapers visible everywhere in the city, and ended with Tom driving us to the airport as a high-speed car chase was happening downtown (as we could hear on Tom’s car radio): Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk had just been assassinated, and their assassin—recently retired city supervisor Dan White—was being pursued by police.

    “Like I said, a memorable trip.”

 

Also

 

Business and Craft

 

  • Tom Richmond: The dangers of accepting PayPal or credit cards

    “[...] what happens if the very payment the client makes to you isn’t a ‘real’ payment until up to 2 months after it’s made? What if that money the customer paid for those goods that went into the cash register had a fishing line tied to it, and later on the customer had merely to yank on the line and the money was gone?”

 

Comics and Art

 

  • Harry Lee Green (one, two): The All-American Art of Cartooning

    Lengthy excerpts from a World War II-era book published by Higgins Ink.

 

Also

 

Multimedia

 

  • Comics-related podcasts

    • NPR’s Neal Conan speaks with Neil Gaiman about editing Best American Comics 2010 and his love of the medium (13.9MB).
    • “Amherst College alum Bill Amend and Darby Conley were brought together to discuss their work in cartooning.” (34.1MB)
    • Panel Borders‘ Alex Fitch presents interviews with Howard Hardiman and Bryan Talbot (31.2MB).
    • Chris Cilla is the featured guest on this week’s episode of Inkstuds (43.5MB).
    • Deep Discussions presents a conversation with former Caliber Comics publisher Gary Reed (158.4MB).
    • Commentary and criticism: Manga Out Loud offers a roundtable discussion on NAME’s One Piece (71.3MB); Fourcast brings the superhero conversation (43.1MB); and here’s the latest episodes of Wait, What? (one [42.4MB], two [66.7MB]).

    All podcasts are in available in downloadable MP3 audiofile format.

 

Events Calendar

 

This Weekend:

 

  • Dec. 11-12 (Austin, TX): Hang out with your favorite online cartoonists during Webcomics Rampage at Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy on Burnet Road. Details here.

  • Dec. 11 (Berkeley, CA): Indy cartoonists reading sword-and-sorcery stories? See it at Comic Relief on Shattuck Avenue, beginning at 6PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 11 (Seattle, WA): It’s a festival of art and comics at the fourth-anniversary celebration at the Fantagraphics Bookstore on Vale Street, from 6-9PM. Details here.

 

Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. Please include an online link to which I can send people for more information. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here. (Note: Under no circumstances will I link to a Facebook page. Seriously, what idiot “advertises” their event solely on a website that requires registration to see the advertisement?)

 

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“We just need more people reading comics, I think we can all agree on that. Whether they’re picking up monthly issues or waiting for the trade or downloading them on their iPads, I don’t care. Let’s just get their asses in the seats…”

 

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From A Sickness in the Family.

 

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  • Gavin Lees reviews Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso’s A Sickness in the Family.

  • Rob Clough reviews Clare #1 by Kubby; Zombre #2 by Ansis Purins; and Winter Break 2010: University of Diversity by Lisa McDonnell.

  • Presenting seven Playboy sports caricatures by Ranan Lurie, courtesy of Tom Crippen.

  • Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Noah Berlatsky reviews Arie Kaplan’s book about Jews in the comic book industry, From Krakow to Krypton.

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Life in interesting times

  • “[3 Geeks creator Rich Koslowski,] who won a copyright-infringement judgment against a Canadian businessman last year says the court order has proven to be worthless because the man who used his art without permission — and continues to do so — simply chooses to ignore it.”

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    Sequence from the original version of Tintin in the Congo.

  • A European court has postponed a hearing in the lawsuit filed by Congolese citizen Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, to have Hergé’s notorious Tintin in the Congo banned.

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  • Lincoln, Nebraska’s Comic World will close on December 23, after 18 years in business.

 

Today’s Format WarsTM report

  • Google demoed its Chrome OS on Tuesday, which is designed to operate on laptop and netbook computers. Based almost entirely on the Chrome browser, it will feature what Google claims is more secure surfing, easy access to the Internet through both WiFi and 3G implementation, and — yes — yet another app store, seperate from the Android store. Rafe Needleman offers an early look at said store.

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  • Developer Phil Frumph discusses the current state of ComicPress, one of the leading webcomics plug-ins for the WordPress content-management system. Xaviar Xerexes offers commentary.

 

 

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Profiles

 

  • Wim Lockefeer on Juan Diaz Canales

    The first installment of a multi-part conversation with the writer behind European album series Blacksad.

 

Also

 

Reviews

 

  • Matthew Brady on The Unsinkable Walker Bean


    ©2010 Aaron Renier.

    “While the story is a good one, much of the fun to be had comes from Renier’s detailed environments, which are beautifully depicted in a style similar to European artists like Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, even down to the album-size dimensions.”

 

Also

 

Comics and Art

 

  • Thom Buchanan: Georges Barbier’s The Romance of Perfume

    Six gorgeous 1928 illustrations, plus two title-page designs.

 

Also

 

Events Calendar

 

Today:

 

  • Dec. 9 (New York City, NY): Peter Kuper, John Bunk and Danny Fingeroth discuss the work of Al Jaffee at the Museum for Comic and Cartoon Art on Broadway, beginning at 7PM. Details here.

 

This Week:

 

  • Dec. 11-12 (Austin, TX): Hang out with your favorite online cartoonists during Webcomics Rampage at Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy on Burnet Road. Details here.

  • Dec. 11 (Berkeley, CA): Indy cartoonists reading sword-and-sorcery stories? See it at Comic Relief on Shattuck Avenue, beginning at 6PM. Details here.

  • Dec. 11 (Seattle, WA): It’s a festival of art and comics at the fourth-anniversary celebration at the Fantagraphics Bookstore on Vale Street, from 6-9PM. Details here.

 

Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. Please include an online link to which I can send people for more information. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here. (Note: Under no circumstances will I link to a Facebook page. Seriously, what idiot “advertises” their event solely on a website that requires registration to see the advertisement?)

 

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