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Smart Cardboard?
David Mazzucchelli’s formal innovations in Asterios Polyp are almost sixty years old.The image above shows two 1953 "Pogo" newspaper comic strips by Walt Kelly (as published in Pogo, volume 10 –...
View ArticleDe Gustibus Non Est Disputandum
Josep Oliver @cisnenegroJul 1Top 15 de los mejores cómics ever: 15. No 14. puedes 13. hacer 12. un 11. top 10. así 9. porque 8. depende 7. de 6. los 5. gustos 4. de 3. cada 2. uno 1. Calvin y...
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The Expanded Field of Comics And Other Pet Peeves
Ana Hatherly,The Writer(1975).Still in shock after seeing that the comics’ subculture continues as deaf and insular in its aesthetic criteria as ten years ago (since the infamous The Comics Journal’s...
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Jack Slingsby
It was Friday, September 26, 2008, almost ten years ago. That day I wrote my second post on this blog. The sites I linked to that time are long gone (I recently updated the post erasing those links...
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Funky Flashman
DC Comics'"Himon!" by Jack Kirby (Mister Miracle # 9, Jul.-Aug. 1972) is not the comics story that I hate the most. That dubious honor, if I remember correctly, goes to Pedro and Me (2000) by Judd...
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Best News, Ever
Who would have thunk it? In that aberration called San Diego Comic Con Drawn & Quarterly gave us (talk about roses in the gutter: no pun intended) the greatest news ever in the history of Western...
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J'Accuse
In July 2007 David Enright was at a Borders bookshop in the UK with his wife and two children when he stumbled upon a copy of Tintin in the Congo by Belgian comics artist George Remi (aka Hergé). The...
View ArticleO Campo Alargado e Outras Irritações
No Quarto de Jade de Maria João Worm e Diniz Conefrey.
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A alma é o negócio em que se perde sempre
João Bénard da Costa em imagem que ilustra a entrevista de 1990. Se ele cá voltasse!...Por um acaso feliz deparei com esta entrevista de Manuel S. Fonseca a João Bénard da Costa (originalmente...
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The Blind Men and the Elephant
Hanabusa Itcho, Blind Monks Examining an Elephant. Itcho, by the way, not Hokusai, contrarily to popular myth, coined the word "manga."Speaking of stories... you know the parable: the blind men feel...
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Pamplemoussi by Geneviève Castrée
Comics and music may relate in a few ways: musicians and their music may be cited in comics (as seen below); abstract forms and colors, organized in patterns in a comic, may be associated with music as...
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Contempt: A Visual Reading and Other Loose Ends
[I hesitated to publish the below post on this blog about comics, but since I'm reposting here my Hooded Utilitarian posts I decided to give it a go...It's my only film criticism. I wrote it because...
View ArticleBack To Film or Contempt: A Visual Reading and Other Loose Ends - Coda
Here's what I noticed:Greed - 1924L'Atalante - 1934Brief Encounter - 1945 Late Spring - 1949Stromboli - 1950 Rhe River - 1951Life of Oharu - 1952El - 1953Tokyo Story - 1953Sansho the Bailiff - 1954The...
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Mickey Mouse The Racist
The theory that Mickey Mouse's design, by Ub Iwerks, was inspired by the racist show known as blackface minstrelsy appears here and there in texts about comics (and animation, I guess, but I don't read...
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What’s Missing From This Picture?
[If my piece about Contempt is my only film criticism, today I give you my only TV criticism. If I remember correctly it was written during a serious writer's block. I loved the series and I wanted to...
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Monthly Stumblings # 1: Pierre Duba
Racines (roots) by Pierre DubaSometimes I mumble an inner “Wow!”… It happens when I stumble into a book that I find great. It’s quite possible too that, upon rereading, months or years later, I also...
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Ha muerto Ceesepe!
Alberto Garcia-Alix, 1982 El artista Carlos Sánchez 'Ceesepe', ilustrador de la Movida, ha fallecido este viernes 7 de septiembre en Madrid, según han confirmado a Europa Press fuentes cercanas al...
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