David B. « The Comics Journal

In the second part of a three-part conversation on comics translation, our intrepid panelists discuss “faithfulness,” the temptation to improve upon the source text, sound effects, accents, working with word balloons and much more.

Robert Stanley Martin reviews Nocturnal Conspiracies: Nineteen Dreams from December 1979 to September 1994

Posted by Robert Martin on December 28th, 2009 at 9:00 AM

The strength of the dream material in Epileptic gives one high hopes for this new book; one wants to see if, divorced from a larger context, David B. can make the dream narratives effective on their own terms.

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Rich Kreiner’s Yearlong “Annual Best Of” List

Posted by Rich Kreiner on December 8th, 2009 at 11:11 AM

When these “best of the year” recaps were collected for print in the magazine proper, we contributors used to have to forward our nominees well before the actual close of the calendar year. Over time, thanks to this Pavlovian routine, …