Another Ridiculous Comics Canon - The Unicómic Canon
The ridiculous comics canon I'm talking about in this post's title comes from Alicante, Spain, this time. Sincerely, I can't understand this... Put a similar canon in a literary or film context and you...
View ArticleRandall by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Arturo del Castillo
If you can read Spanish and want to own one of the best westerns ever produced in comics (do you want proof?, it's not in any comics canon, that's proof enough...), now is your chance. Grab it.
View ArticleA Lei da Selva de Raul Correia e Eduardo Teixeira Coelho - Errata!
No meu texto / prefácio à edição de Manuel Caldas de A Lei da Selva (ainda não compraram?, de que estão à espera?!) existe uma errata. Na verdade, chamar-lhe errata é ser caridoso. Trata-se, na...
View ArticleAnother Ridiculous Comics Canon - The Unicómic Canon - Coda
I forgot to say what's more serious in this sorry state of affairs. This stupid canon comes from a university. Imagine if some faculty, constructing a music canon, put I’ve Been Working on the Railroad...
View ArticleJoe Sacco and Chris Ware at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Joe Sacco and Chris Ware at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Hosted by Teddy Jamieson, 2013.Chris Ware is a great comics critic.And I say this knowing too well that we don't exactly share the...
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José Muñoz Sobre Julio Schiaffino y Leopoldo Durañona
Eugenio Zappietro (g), Julio Schiaffino (d), "Bull Rockett", Misterix nº 714, 20 de julio de 1962.Jorge Oesterheld (g), Leopoldo Durañona (d), "Pedro Pereyra, Taxista" [homenaje a Pablo Pereyra] Hora...
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Restoring Sgt. Kirk
Besides being extremely honored by the presence at my crib of one of the greatest comics artists of all time, José Muñoz, it's obvious that I'm neglecting this blog. This is so because I've been busy...
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Crumb Who?
Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time, Palgrave, 2016.I've read just two chapters of the above book. Since this blog is about my personal comics canon (something that can't...
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Kirby, Who?
While an entire history of critics from Matthew Arnold to Harold Bloom have sought to identify excellence as an intrinsic and objective element, we contend that excellence is not a property of works...
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Restoring Hope
José Muñoz, Buenos Aires, 6 de Mayo 1955.José Muñoz me ha enviado la ilustración arriba como respuesta a mi entrada Restoring Sgt. Kirk. Es el dibujo que ha servido como afiche al tercer Festival...
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Micharmut 1953 - 2016
Juan Enrique Bosch Quevedo (aka as Micharmut) had to be a comics artist because his last names included the surnames of both a famous painter and a great writer. And what a great comics artist he was!...
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More Sgt. Kirk
I didn't post anything this last month because I continue to restore Oesterheld's and Pratt's "Sgt. Kirk".Here are some more pages published in Misterix # 298 (June 4, 1954) and # 299 (June 11, 1954),...
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Jiro Taniguchi
Jiro Taniguchi died yesterday. The Crib is becoming poorer and poorer...
View ArticleViola
Viola Davis has nothing to do with comics, but since I started writing about the art form, more than 25 years ago, that this, exactly this, is what I thought comics were capable of and weren't doing...
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The 100th
Below is the 100th "Sgt. Kirk" page that I restored. I'm almost finishing the "Cerco de muerte" [the siege of death] story arc.As you can easily understand, it's not easy to go from this: Héctor...
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Calling Diego Cordoba
Hi Diego!After your comment I downloaded Photoshop so, my total amount of Photoshop working hours is approximately 5 minutes. Even so, what do you think? I just added saturation. I'm not a big fan of...
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The Definitive Sgt. Kirk Reprint Vol. 1
Today I imagined the design of my Sgt. Kirk reprint edition. It will be hardcover, it will have a cloth spine, and the reprint paper will be slightly beige. It will have the approximate Misterix...
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The Definitive Sgt. Kirk Reprint Edition Vol. 1 - Coda
This is lots of fun. It's a shame that none of this will ever exist.By the way, this cover is more in proportion with Misterix's dimentions than the previous one which was (before I changed a couple of...
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The Definitive Sgt. Kirk Reprint Edition Vol. 1 - Coda # 2
Today it crossed my mind that a page margin is important, so, this is how my Sgt. Kirk pages would look like.Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), Hugo Pratt (a), "Cerco de muerte", Misterix # 304 (July 16,...
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And Now For Something Completely Different... Yet Another Ridiculous Comics...
Most people couldn't care less about comics. Some people say that comics are crap. And, then, there are the fanboys.Unfortunately the last ones are those who build the canon and that's, dear readers,...
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