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Manuel Caldas: Um Editor Independente
1989 Conheço o Manuel Caldas já vai para vinte anos, mas, infelizmente, os dedos das duas mãos são demais para contar as vezes que nos encontrámos pessoalmente. A sua proverbial fobia a viagens e o...
View ArticleI'm Back
After posting at The Hooded Utilitarian I'm back at The Crib. It was fun while it lasted and I thank Noah and Suat and Caro and Derik and Matthias and Robert. I left because I can't be in the same room...
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Manuel Caldas: Um Editor Independente - Coda
1.2. 3. Imagens:1. Segunda edição de Foster e Val por Manuel Caldas (1993). Enquanto a fantasia é monocromática (aqui a azul, na primeira edição a preto) o desenho em que Hal Foster caricaturiza as...
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Shannon Gerard's Unspent Love
My personal canon has a new star: Shannon Gerard. Check her out online at Top Shelf (I hate the stupid backgrounds).
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Rutu Modan's Mixed Emotions
For a brief time The Crib'sfavorite Rutu Modan wrote and drew a blog at The New York Times site. I'm so glad that women saved this childish and adolescent art form (I'm exaggerating again, sorry!, but...
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Crosby & Schulz
Charles Schulz worked single-handedly, or legend has it, in his newspaper comics series Peanuts for almost half a century. This means that Schulz produced an impressive number of Peanuts dailies and...
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Jackie Cooper & Bill Blackbeard - a sort of coda
Jackie Cooper, who played Skippy on the silver screen in 1931, died last May 3. Cooper was nominated for an Oscar at the age of nine.Bill Blackbeard, without whom my Crosby & Schulz post wouldn't...
View ArticleI'm Back at The Hooded Utilitarian
Since my impediment was removed, I'm back at The Hooded Utilitarian. I hope to post at The Crib also though. The last time that I said the above I didn't comply. I hope to post at least once every two...
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Carlos Trillo
Another member of The Crib's pantheon passed away (last May 8 this time), Argentinian writer Carlos Trillo. I especially like his work with Alberto Breccia: Un tal Daneri, Buscavidas, Viajero de gris...
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Joan Crosby Tibbetts
If you remember Changeling, a film with Angelina Jolie (Catherine Collins) directed by Clint Eastwood, you can certainly recall how the main character is imprisoned in a mental institution just because...
View ArticleShannon Gerard Part 2
YYZ Birds from Shannon Gerard on Vimeo.Shannon Gerard at Inkstuds
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Stolen Art / Arte Roubada
Someone at the Portuguese customs or postal service stole me the original art for these two Ray Bailey / Milton Caniff pages (# 13, 14 of Strictly for the Smart Birds, 1951). If you bump into them...
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Solano - Coda
Here's Solano López in his twenties on the cover of the magazine Dibujantes (draftsmen; issue # 22, September, 1956).
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O Eternauta
O Eternauta de Héctor Germán Oesterheld e Francisco Solano López finalmente em português, editado no Brasil pela editora Martins Fontes. Terá distribuição portuguesa?
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Joe Sacco's Kushinagar
Joe Sacco continues the good fight. Corruption is the cancer of the so-called third world.
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Oslo Comics Expo
I was invited by the Oslo Comics Expo to participate in a seminar about modern aesthetics in comics. I had a great time! Thanks Håvard S. Johansen, thanks Erle Marie Sørheim! I loved meeting everyone...
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Stolen Art / Arte Roubada
Someone at the Portuguese customs or postal service stole me the original art for these two Ray Bailey / Milton Caniff pages (# 13, 14 of Strictly for the Smart Birds, 1951). If you bump into them...
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