Comics Reviews
Summaries and links to offsite comics reviews. Most of these are for the Cinescape website; occasionally I have a review here that has not been placed elsewhere.
Craig Thompson
(62 Words. November 04, 2003, 02:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I started my day with an interview with Blankets creator Craig Thompson. It was a very enjoyable conversation. I won’t blow my cover by reviewing the book here (there will be a capsule review in the Tablet piece I write from the interview), but here’s some links other reviews: Powell’s Books: Review-aDay Multiply.com Notebook Amazon.com: Blankets customer reviews iCOMICS: Daily…
Same Difference
(153 Words. February 24, 2003, 02:49 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Same Difference is a 16-part online comic focusing on a Bay Area friendship between two twentysomethings. Jerry pointed it out, and it’s been getting citations for a few days, as the story arc just completed. It’s really quite excellent - not standard webcomics fare, which can tend to reflect the demands of the web by presenting condensed, efficient bursts. This…
ooh! (wiggles fingers homerishly)
(16 Words. November 22, 2002, 10:04 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
What Do I Know notes the OS X app Comictastic. The dailies! Yes, at last!…
Comic book musing
(550 Words. November 22, 2002, 07:42 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I have six more reviews to excerpt and cross post here that are live at Cinescape. I’ll still take a break from that for now, however; I believe that there are at least another 12 reviews in the queue at Cinescape to post as well. I also have a huge pile of material from the Gainesville-based publisher, Alternative Comics, which…
Sumptuous!
(962 Words. November 21, 2002, 07:03 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Here, laid out for ogling (no jostling, dammit!) is the as-promised sumptuous prize package to be delivered to the fortunate and determined Pinax. Some points to note: two of these books are not strictly duplicates, but rather differing versions of material I have in another format, the McCay book and the Gonick book. There are two possible collectibles in the…
The House at Maakies Corner
(120 Words. November 20, 2002, 07:24 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 12, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. THE HOUSE AT MAAKIES CORNER collects the MAAKIES alt-weekly syndicated strips of Tony Millionaire for the years of 2000 through 2002. At around the time the first of these strips were appearing, a notable expansion of work for the artist had begun to occur. Today, in…
Meatcake #12
(189 Words. November 19, 2002, 07:12 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted September 8, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. MEATCAKE emerged, it seems to my unreliable memory, fully formed from creator Dame Darcy’s brow. She herself appears to spring from very brow of Goth, equally fully-formed, her being and our idea of that subculture merging and blurring. That’s not to say that Darcy’s work, or…
The Golem's Mighty Swing
(177 Words. November 18, 2002, 07:14 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 11, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. Published last year and now in a second printing, James Sturm’s THE GOLEM’S MIGHTY SWING garnered critical attention outside the comics arena and in the light of Sturm’s upcoming gig scripting the FANTASTIC FOUR for Marvel in a series titled UNSTABLE MOLECULES, this book deserves a…
The Great Comic Book Heroes
(155 Words. November 17, 2002, 07:20 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted August 31, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. In the midst of the Silver Age reflorescence of super-hero comics, as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s verve and energy steered Marvel to its great age of glory, media interest in the comics revival took many forms. From the introduction of the beloved campy BATMAN television…
Weasel #5
(170 Words. November 16, 2002, 07:28 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted September 10, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. Let me just say this: Canadian clown porn. But don’t get worked up; if that excites you, I want you to put the review down, and walk backwards out of the room. Keep your hands to your sides, where I can see them. Good. Now, shut…
Love and Rockets #5
(247 Words. November 15, 2002, 07:01 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Originally posted September 1, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. As legions of reviewers have noted, it’s good to have the world in order. A hated Republican leads us once again, and Los Bros are back at work publishing under the same cover. This issue of LOVE AND ROCKETS is the fifth in the new…
The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 16
(163 Words. November 14, 2002, 02:36 PM, Comments: 10) MORE >>>
The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 16 Originally posted October 8, 2002. Excerpt from Cinescape. Since 1987, Fantagraphics has been slogging through every line that R. Crumb has ever drawn; that’s when THE COMPLETE CRUMB COMICS VOLUME ONE (The Early Years of Bitter Struggle) was first published. The current volume at hand brings us up to the material that Crumb was…
HYSTERIA IN REMISSION: THE COMIX & DRAWINGS OF ROBERT WILLIAMS
(253 Words. November 14, 2002, 08:54 AM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 3, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. In November, Fantagraphics releases HYSTERIA IN REMISSION: THE COMIX & DRAWINGS OF ROBERT WILLIAMS, an overdue compendium of the celebrated painter’s graphic work. Since the mid-’90s, Williams has been justly celebrated for his remarkable accomplishments as a fine artist and champion of outsider art. His large-scale…
FUZZ & PLUCK IN SPLITSVILLE, PART 2 (of 4)
(152 Words. November 14, 2002, 07:49 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted September 12, 2002. Click pic for full review. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Fuzz, the good-natured teddy bear, and Pluck, the ill-tempered, unfeathered banty rooster, continue their misadventures in what I assume to be the town of Splitsville. When we last left our protagonists, Fuzz had suffered a dog attack while attempting to deliver an order of fast…
THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE VOLUME III
(146 Words. October 07, 2002, 07:34 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
My review of THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE VOLUME III is up at Cinescape now. If you haven’t read Vols 1 & 2, by all means do! Allan Bloom is crying becasue of YOU! (What? you don’t think he was referring to these books in his hearty cries for more history in the curriculum? Could be. In that case,…
DIRTY STORIES VOLUME 3 and DRAWN AND QUARTERLY Vol. 3
(99 Words. August 29, 2002, 02:23 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted July 8, 2002. D&Q vol 3 is the best collection title now publishing in the States; this volume includes the powerful “Monsieur Jean”, 1999’s “Best Comic Album” at the French b-d awards, Angouleme. The win was clearly deserved. Dirty Stories is Fantagraphic’s high-minded smut anthology; as such, it has a range of work, almost all of it ambitious,…
THE STUFF OF DREAMS
(27 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:56 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted August 17, 2002. Grand old man Deitch offers a thousand dollar bounty for a genuine 1920’s Waldo doll. Pretty cool. Click image for full review….
THE INCAL #2
(36 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:53 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted January 11, 2002. Expanded reincarnation (new script, new art) of the Jodorowsky-Moebius late-eighties classic falls short despite high production values; OTOH, Moebius is a hard act to follow, yes? Click image for full review….
TALL TAILS #1-13
(28 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:50 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted January 11, 2002. Labor of love and cult title suffers from lack of editorial control and too-small reproduction at digest size. Click image for full review….
SUPER DOOPER GROOVY SPACE CHICKS #0
(38 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:47 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted May 12, 2002. Hoo boy. Um, not a complete waste of time? Uses MS Comic Sans throughout, which is reason enough to avoid, Macgruder’s Boodocks to the contrary. Strange publication choices. Click image for full review….
SUCKLE: THE STATUS OF BASIL
(45 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:42 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted June 30, 2002. Dave Cooper may be the reason South Park chose to “Blame Canada”. No one else in comix is so fascinated and repulsed by human sexuality. This allegory-ish coming of age tale is well worth reading. Click image for full review….
SOCK MONKEY: A CHILDREN'S BOOK
(21 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:37 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 3, 2001. Millionaire pursues your children with this beautiful, slightly creepy kids’ book. Click image for full review….
MIGRAINE BOY
(37 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:34 PM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 27, 2001. Greg Fiering’s analytic subversion of suburbia strips similar to Peanuts and Family Circus captures the pain, stupidity, and perfect moral vacuum of growing up in the burbs. Click image for full review….
THE MAGIC WHISTLE
(35 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:31 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 27, 2001. Comic-hipster beloved funnyman Sam Henderson gets the brush-off from me. Since then, I have revised my take and find this issue very funny. Sorry, Sammy! Click image for full review….
MAAKIES
(33 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:25 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted July 9, 2002. Tony Millionaire is a freakin’ GENIUS. MAAKIES is the best stuff he’s ever done, and clearly among the best strips of all time. Click image for full review….
LEFT BEHIND: A Graphic Novel of the Earth's Last Days, Book One, Volumes I and II (of V)
(28 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:20 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted May 11, 2002. Revelations-based potboiler franchise expands into comics with this professional, so-so effort that nonetheless offers chills, post 9-11. Click image for full review….
LA PERDIDA #1-2
(29 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:16 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted August 15, 2002. Jessica Abel’s thoughtful fictionalization of living the expat life in Mexico City is the best work she’s ever done. Click image for full review….
HEDG #1
(48 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted May 10, 2002. Frustrating miss from groundbreaking effort to employ only 3-D computer imaging to render comic book. Gifted creator, artifical limitations on execution. I hated writing this review and hope to avoid writing further brutally critical reviews in the future. Click image for full review….
HARLEQUIN VALENTINE
(27 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:07 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 28, 2001. Comics star Neil Gaiman turns his sights on commedia dell’arte with lightweight results. Cute, but nothin’ deep. Click image for full review….
GROO: DEATH AND TAXES
(28 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:02 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 27, 2001. Evanier and Aragones continue their long-running fantasy satire, this time tackling all viewpoints on the topic of taxes. Click image for full review….
GREETINGS FROM HELLVILLE
(32 Words. August 29, 2002, 12:58 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted August 16, 2002. Polished first effort from Swiss scratchboard artist lacks passion but stems from Swiss and German traditions stretching back to the middle ages. Click image for full review….
FUZZ & PLUCK IN SPLITSVILLE #1 (of 4)
(32 Words. August 29, 2002, 12:55 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted June 28, 2002. Ted Stearn’s opening chapter follows the misadventures of a good-natured teddy bear and a cranky, plucked rooster in a cruel, hard-knock world. Click image for full review….
DUH - UNDERWORLD #4
(24 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:51 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 25, 2001 Underground downtown cartoonist Kaz collects his alt-strips in the fourth volume of the series. Click image for full review….
DIABLO: TALES OF SANCTUARY
(21 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:48 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 28, 2001. Cross-licensing yawner provides a couple of momentary technical points of interest. Click image for full review….
DAN AND LARRY IN DON'T DO THAT
(29 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:43 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted December 3, 2001 Canadian Dave Cooper explores the uncomfortably intertwined worlds of adolescent sexual self-definition and comics. Icky, but brilliant and thoughtful. Click image for full review….
COMICS, COMIX & GRAPHIC NOVELS: A HISTORY OF COMIC ART
(20 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:38 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted July 18, 2002. British overview of comics history covers new ground, for me. Click image for full review….
CHAMPS
(25 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:15 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted on November 28, 2001. My first exposure to the beautiful art of Weissman turns me into a fan. Click image for full review….
AMERICAN SPLENDOR: PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR IN HIS DECLINING YEARS
(23 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted on October 25, 2001. Harvey keeps on keepin’ on, but he’s aged and mellowed a bit. Click image for full review….
Summaries and links to offsite comics reviews. Most of these are for the Cinescape website; occasionally I have a review here that has not been placed elsewhere.
Craig Thompson
(62 Words. November 04, 2003, 02:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I started my day with an interview with Blankets creator Craig Thompson. It was a very enjoyable conversation. I won’t blow my cover by reviewing the book here (there will be a capsule review in the Tablet piece I write from the interview), but here’s some links other reviews: Powell’s Books: Review-aDay Multiply.com Notebook Amazon.com: Blankets customer reviews iCOMICS: Daily…
Same Difference
(153 Words. February 24, 2003, 02:49 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Same Difference is a 16-part online comic focusing on a Bay Area friendship between two twentysomethings. Jerry pointed it out, and it’s been getting citations for a few days, as the story arc just completed. It’s really quite excellent - not standard webcomics fare, which can tend to reflect the demands of the web by presenting condensed, efficient bursts. This…
ooh! (wiggles fingers homerishly)
(16 Words. November 22, 2002, 10:04 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
What Do I Know notes the OS X app Comictastic. The dailies! Yes, at last!…
Comic book musing
(550 Words. November 22, 2002, 07:42 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I have six more reviews to excerpt and cross post here that are live at Cinescape. I’ll still take a break from that for now, however; I believe that there are at least another 12 reviews in the queue at Cinescape to post as well. I also have a huge pile of material from the Gainesville-based publisher, Alternative Comics, which…
Sumptuous!
(962 Words. November 21, 2002, 07:03 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Here, laid out for ogling (no jostling, dammit!) is the as-promised sumptuous prize package to be delivered to the fortunate and determined Pinax. Some points to note: two of these books are not strictly duplicates, but rather differing versions of material I have in another format, the McCay book and the Gonick book. There are two possible collectibles in the…
The House at Maakies Corner
(120 Words. November 20, 2002, 07:24 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 12, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. THE HOUSE AT MAAKIES CORNER collects the MAAKIES alt-weekly syndicated strips of Tony Millionaire for the years of 2000 through 2002. At around the time the first of these strips were appearing, a notable expansion of work for the artist had begun to occur. Today, in…
Meatcake #12
(189 Words. November 19, 2002, 07:12 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted September 8, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. MEATCAKE emerged, it seems to my unreliable memory, fully formed from creator Dame Darcy’s brow. She herself appears to spring from very brow of Goth, equally fully-formed, her being and our idea of that subculture merging and blurring. That’s not to say that Darcy’s work, or…
The Golem's Mighty Swing
(177 Words. November 18, 2002, 07:14 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 11, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. Published last year and now in a second printing, James Sturm’s THE GOLEM’S MIGHTY SWING garnered critical attention outside the comics arena and in the light of Sturm’s upcoming gig scripting the FANTASTIC FOUR for Marvel in a series titled UNSTABLE MOLECULES, this book deserves a…
The Great Comic Book Heroes
(155 Words. November 17, 2002, 07:20 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted August 31, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. In the midst of the Silver Age reflorescence of super-hero comics, as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s verve and energy steered Marvel to its great age of glory, media interest in the comics revival took many forms. From the introduction of the beloved campy BATMAN television…
Weasel #5
(170 Words. November 16, 2002, 07:28 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted September 10, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. Let me just say this: Canadian clown porn. But don’t get worked up; if that excites you, I want you to put the review down, and walk backwards out of the room. Keep your hands to your sides, where I can see them. Good. Now, shut…
Love and Rockets #5
(247 Words. November 15, 2002, 07:01 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Originally posted September 1, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. As legions of reviewers have noted, it’s good to have the world in order. A hated Republican leads us once again, and Los Bros are back at work publishing under the same cover. This issue of LOVE AND ROCKETS is the fifth in the new…
The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 16
(163 Words. November 14, 2002, 02:36 PM, Comments: 10) MORE >>>
The Complete Crumb Comics Volume 16 Originally posted October 8, 2002. Excerpt from Cinescape. Since 1987, Fantagraphics has been slogging through every line that R. Crumb has ever drawn; that’s when THE COMPLETE CRUMB COMICS VOLUME ONE (The Early Years of Bitter Struggle) was first published. The current volume at hand brings us up to the material that Crumb was…
HYSTERIA IN REMISSION: THE COMIX & DRAWINGS OF ROBERT WILLIAMS
(253 Words. November 14, 2002, 08:54 AM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 3, 2002. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Click pic for full review. In November, Fantagraphics releases HYSTERIA IN REMISSION: THE COMIX & DRAWINGS OF ROBERT WILLIAMS, an overdue compendium of the celebrated painter’s graphic work. Since the mid-’90s, Williams has been justly celebrated for his remarkable accomplishments as a fine artist and champion of outsider art. His large-scale…
FUZZ & PLUCK IN SPLITSVILLE, PART 2 (of 4)
(152 Words. November 14, 2002, 07:49 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted September 12, 2002. Click pic for full review. Excerpted from Cinescape online. Fuzz, the good-natured teddy bear, and Pluck, the ill-tempered, unfeathered banty rooster, continue their misadventures in what I assume to be the town of Splitsville. When we last left our protagonists, Fuzz had suffered a dog attack while attempting to deliver an order of fast…
THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE VOLUME III
(146 Words. October 07, 2002, 07:34 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
My review of THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE VOLUME III is up at Cinescape now. If you haven’t read Vols 1 & 2, by all means do! Allan Bloom is crying becasue of YOU! (What? you don’t think he was referring to these books in his hearty cries for more history in the curriculum? Could be. In that case,…
DIRTY STORIES VOLUME 3 and DRAWN AND QUARTERLY Vol. 3
(99 Words. August 29, 2002, 02:23 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted July 8, 2002. D&Q vol 3 is the best collection title now publishing in the States; this volume includes the powerful “Monsieur Jean”, 1999’s “Best Comic Album” at the French b-d awards, Angouleme. The win was clearly deserved. Dirty Stories is Fantagraphic’s high-minded smut anthology; as such, it has a range of work, almost all of it ambitious,…
THE STUFF OF DREAMS
(27 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:56 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted August 17, 2002. Grand old man Deitch offers a thousand dollar bounty for a genuine 1920’s Waldo doll. Pretty cool. Click image for full review….
THE INCAL #2
(36 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:53 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted January 11, 2002. Expanded reincarnation (new script, new art) of the Jodorowsky-Moebius late-eighties classic falls short despite high production values; OTOH, Moebius is a hard act to follow, yes? Click image for full review….
TALL TAILS #1-13
(28 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:50 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted January 11, 2002. Labor of love and cult title suffers from lack of editorial control and too-small reproduction at digest size. Click image for full review….
SUPER DOOPER GROOVY SPACE CHICKS #0
(38 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:47 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted May 12, 2002. Hoo boy. Um, not a complete waste of time? Uses MS Comic Sans throughout, which is reason enough to avoid, Macgruder’s Boodocks to the contrary. Strange publication choices. Click image for full review….
SUCKLE: THE STATUS OF BASIL
(45 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:42 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted June 30, 2002. Dave Cooper may be the reason South Park chose to “Blame Canada”. No one else in comix is so fascinated and repulsed by human sexuality. This allegory-ish coming of age tale is well worth reading. Click image for full review….
SOCK MONKEY: A CHILDREN'S BOOK
(21 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:37 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 3, 2001. Millionaire pursues your children with this beautiful, slightly creepy kids’ book. Click image for full review….
MIGRAINE BOY
(37 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:34 PM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 27, 2001. Greg Fiering’s analytic subversion of suburbia strips similar to Peanuts and Family Circus captures the pain, stupidity, and perfect moral vacuum of growing up in the burbs. Click image for full review….
THE MAGIC WHISTLE
(35 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:31 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 27, 2001. Comic-hipster beloved funnyman Sam Henderson gets the brush-off from me. Since then, I have revised my take and find this issue very funny. Sorry, Sammy! Click image for full review….
MAAKIES
(33 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:25 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted July 9, 2002. Tony Millionaire is a freakin’ GENIUS. MAAKIES is the best stuff he’s ever done, and clearly among the best strips of all time. Click image for full review….
LEFT BEHIND: A Graphic Novel of the Earth's Last Days, Book One, Volumes I and II (of V)
(28 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:20 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted May 11, 2002. Revelations-based potboiler franchise expands into comics with this professional, so-so effort that nonetheless offers chills, post 9-11. Click image for full review….
LA PERDIDA #1-2
(29 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:16 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted August 15, 2002. Jessica Abel’s thoughtful fictionalization of living the expat life in Mexico City is the best work she’s ever done. Click image for full review….
HEDG #1
(48 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted May 10, 2002. Frustrating miss from groundbreaking effort to employ only 3-D computer imaging to render comic book. Gifted creator, artifical limitations on execution. I hated writing this review and hope to avoid writing further brutally critical reviews in the future. Click image for full review….
HARLEQUIN VALENTINE
(27 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:07 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 28, 2001. Comics star Neil Gaiman turns his sights on commedia dell’arte with lightweight results. Cute, but nothin’ deep. Click image for full review….
GROO: DEATH AND TAXES
(28 Words. August 29, 2002, 01:02 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted November 27, 2001. Evanier and Aragones continue their long-running fantasy satire, this time tackling all viewpoints on the topic of taxes. Click image for full review….
GREETINGS FROM HELLVILLE
(32 Words. August 29, 2002, 12:58 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted August 16, 2002. Polished first effort from Swiss scratchboard artist lacks passion but stems from Swiss and German traditions stretching back to the middle ages. Click image for full review….
FUZZ & PLUCK IN SPLITSVILLE #1 (of 4)
(32 Words. August 29, 2002, 12:55 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted June 28, 2002. Ted Stearn’s opening chapter follows the misadventures of a good-natured teddy bear and a cranky, plucked rooster in a cruel, hard-knock world. Click image for full review….
DUH - UNDERWORLD #4
(24 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:51 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 25, 2001 Underground downtown cartoonist Kaz collects his alt-strips in the fourth volume of the series. Click image for full review….
DIABLO: TALES OF SANCTUARY
(21 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:48 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted October 28, 2001. Cross-licensing yawner provides a couple of momentary technical points of interest. Click image for full review….
DAN AND LARRY IN DON'T DO THAT
(29 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:43 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted December 3, 2001 Canadian Dave Cooper explores the uncomfortably intertwined worlds of adolescent sexual self-definition and comics. Icky, but brilliant and thoughtful. Click image for full review….
COMICS, COMIX & GRAPHIC NOVELS: A HISTORY OF COMIC ART
(20 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:38 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted July 18, 2002. British overview of comics history covers new ground, for me. Click image for full review….
CHAMPS
(25 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:15 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted on November 28, 2001. My first exposure to the beautiful art of Weissman turns me into a fan. Click image for full review….
AMERICAN SPLENDOR: PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR IN HIS DECLINING YEARS
(23 Words. August 28, 2002, 04:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Originally posted on October 25, 2001. Harvey keeps on keepin’ on, but he’s aged and mellowed a bit. Click image for full review….
