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Weird Facts
As time passes I feel less and less inclined to write about comics, and I don't mean on this blog only...The reasons are varied and have mainly to do with aging and the loss of energy... Most...
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Weird Facts - Coda
This is an anti-coda, really... In a true Derridadian spirit I'll try in this post to deny everything I wrote in my last one. I will not be able to do it completely (sorry Derrida!), but I will surely...
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Dressage
It's always a special day when I receive a great comic...Jossot, "Dressage,"L'Assiete au Beurre # 144, January 1904.PS I forgot Harvey Pekar in my last post, but I don't consider American Splendor to...
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A Superb comics masterpiece sold at Sotheby's for 11,875 GBP
Les Grandes Misères de la GuerreWhile the worst mediocrity imaginable sells for $3,207,852 on eBay!
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Those Crappy Reprints
I'm always amazed by how great the color in old American newspaper comics sections is.For instance:IDW is reprinting these gorgeous looking pages. They look so good the only thing they did was to...
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Perfection
I promised perfection, and here it is: Guido Buzzelli, La Trilogia, 2017.Guido Buzzelli, Oeuvres 1, 2017.If I still had it in me to search this blog I could quote myself ranting against comics...
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Here's what Frédéric Pajak says at the end of his Intro to the Oeuvres 1 book (my translation):It's true that Buzzelli wasn't recognized enough as an artist and it's true that he is a bit forgotten....
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Yvan Alagbé
Yvan Alagbé interviewed by The New York Times.The real canon of comics emerges here and there, that's true, but the false canon prevails and, considering the barbaric times in which we are living now,...
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Those Crappy Reprints - Belated Coda or Who's The Author?
Who's the author of a comic? It depends, it may go from one person to several... Let's see, there's: the plotter, the scripter, the penciller, the inker, the letterer, the colorist, not to mention the...
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John Porcellino
Great photo by Phoebe Gloeckner It's as if The Comics Journal of old has been ressurrected! Lenghty wise, I mean...
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Gérard Genette
The real theoretician of the Tabular vs. Linear comics reading died last May 11.
View ArticleOne Of The Thinks That I Hate The Most...
Well, I'm being shallow, obviously, but keep in mind that I'm saying the following in the context of this blog and this blog only. There are LOTS of things to be REAL mad about in this world which...
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Matt Marriott Published By Manuel Caldas
If I look at the list of my favorite comics (my personal canon, as this blog's subtitle claims) I inevitably notice that many, if not most, are out of print or were never reprinted decades after the...
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The Complete Pazienza Published By Coconino Press
Talking about great library editions these are great news! Coconino Press is another one of those rare publishers who mean business. Kudos to them!...
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In Defense of Pulp
Al Feldstein (w, a), Marie Severin (c), Jim Wroten (l), "The Vault of Horror!: The Dead Will Return!,"The Vault of Horror #13 [#2], EC Comics, June - July 1950; as reprinted in: top: The Vault of...
View ArticleThe Hooded Utilitarian
This is just a short note to say that I decided to repost here my posts at Noah Berlatsky's blog The Hooded Utilitarian, The first installment will be posted in a few hours.
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Writing Like Monet
I start with a disclaimer. I’ve been following Eddie Campbell’s career for two decades now. We've never met in person, but, since he does an autobiographical series (among other things), I feel I know...
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