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Recently posted to our homepage:

• Rob Clough on Vanessa Davis’ new book Make Me a Woman, and the Robyn Chapman-edited anthology Make.
• R.C. Harvey on Mick and Mason Mastroianni’s new comic strip, Dogs of C-Kennel
• International comics: Bart Croonenborghs on Serge Buysen’s Adventures in Cult City.
• Rich Kreiner reviews the audio recording of Alan Moore’s Snakes and Ladders.
• Presenting a sampler of Gahan Wilson’s 1970s comic strip Nuts, courtesy of Tom Crippen.
• Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Alex Buchet presents a varitable blizzard of Thanksgiving cartoons.

And in the news…

 

Above the Fold

 

Life in interesting times

• The closest you get to news today isn’t really even news anymore at this point: Someone has threatened Swedish artist Lars Vilks in the course of an Islamic-supremacist propaganda video.

  (Link via Tom Spurgeon.)

 

• Fortune Magazine profiles Archie Comics publisher Nancy Silberkleit.

 

Mike Sterling: The end of civilization

Sterling finds the most dubious items from the latest Diamond catalog, so you don’t have to.

 

 

 

Profiles

 

• Michael Cavna on Garry Trudeau

  This week’s big look at the once-reclusive cartoonist.

 

Also

• John Seven on Denis Kitchen
• Allison Keyes on Inverna Lockpez
• Exquisite Things on Patrick Rosenkranz

 

Reviews

 

• Brian Heater on Acme Novelty Library #20
  
  ©2010 F.C. Ware.

  “One emerges with the sense that it is a segment of life Ware has longed to illustrate, but thankfully has waited until he possessed the right storytelling skills. The result is startling and confusing and then breathtaking — a study in measured abstractions that demand multiple passes before moving forward.”

 

Also

• Shaenon Garrity on Thor: The Mighty Avenger
• Webcomics.me on Axe Cop
• Nina Stone on Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil
• Shannon Smith on Enquirer Dharbin
• Jason Thompson on From Eroica With Love
• Bill Sherman on Love Hurts
• Andrew Wheeler on Pluto Vol. 1
• Andrew Wheeler on Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions
• Richard Bruton on The Bizarre Adventures of Gilbert & Sullivan Vol. 1: Crime & Punishment
• Techland on various superhero titles

 

Commentary

 

• Dash Shaw: Tezuka’s secrets of creation

  “You can see that [Osamu] Tezuka’s exorcising his demons on the page. He can’t bear to look at drawings from his ‘dismal, dark period.’ He tells the reporters about consciously trying to change his drawings, to draw more realistically, and how the readers are always confused by the changes. On his cartooning life, he says ‘you’d have to be stupid to do this.’”

 

Also

• Larry Cruz on the Yellow Kid
• David Brothers: Why didn’t the stop my Mum and Dad fighting?
• Bob Temuka: This is the comic

 

Comics and Art

 

• Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Basil Wolverton’s art and comics
  

  This generous helping of work by a comics genius is a great way to end the week, don’t you think?

 

Also

• Harry Lee Green: Teen Love Stories #1
• Ger Apeldoorn: Will Eisner’s advertising comics
• Ger Apeldoorn: Lou Fine’s Adam Ames
• Cloud 109: Carl Barks’ Donald Duck
• Steven Thompson: Jack Cole’s Angles O’Day
• Steven Thompson: Klaus Nordling’s Lady Luck
• Steven Thompson: Harvey K. Fuller’s “The Demon Detective”
• Steven Thompson: Edvard Moritz’s “Tomboy!”
• Steven Thompson: Orlando Busino’s “Hugo the Werewolf”
• Steven Thompson: “Toothy Snyder, Delivery Boy”
• Pappy: “Satanas, the Most Evil Man in the Universe”
• Blake Eskin: New Yorker airport-security cartoons
• Doug Wheeler: Buffalo Bill and Queen Victoria at her Golden Jubilee
• Allan Holtz: Granny Goodthing
• Allan Holtz: He Just Imagined It – That’s All

 

Multimedia

 

• Comics-related podcasts
  • Brian Chippendale is interviewed for the latest episode of Inkstuds (79.5MB).
  • Recently on the Comics Claptrap: a chat with Warren Craghead (95MB).
  • Panel Borders‘ Alex Fitch talks to writer/artist Martin Eden about his small press comics The O Men and Spandex, the latter featuring the world ‘s only all gay superhero team (28MB).
  • Criticism and commentary: The kids at Sunnyside Comics burnish their justifications for digital piracy (37.1MB), while Wait, What? (63.9MB) and Fourcast (36.3MB) talk Batman, Manga Out Loud finds Ed Sizemore discussing Chi’s Sweet Home with his young nephew, and the folks at House to Astonish hash out the last few weeks in genre comics (119.7MB).

  All podcasts are in downloadable MP3 audiofile format.

 

Events Calendar

 

This Weekend:

 

• Nov. 27 (Los Angeles, CA): Renée French will be signing books at Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard, beginning at 6PM. Details here.
• Nov. 28 (London, England): The Alternative Press Fair takes place at the St Aloysius Social Club on Phoenix Road, from noon-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?)