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Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores
Foram entregues, há uma semana atrás, os prémios da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores. Num ano em que Marco Mendes publicou o seu Diário Rasgado, Carlos Pinheiro e Nuno Sousa publicaram Sobrevida (as...
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Another comics inspired film. Thanks Tom Suprgeon for calling my attention to this.
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Kim Thompson
1.Kim Thompson didn't share the Crib´s taste in comics. However... unlike others, he always was civil in our discussions on the subject. He was very articulate in defending his (the subculture's) ideas...
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A Crítica de Banda Desenhada Alguma Vez Existiu?
O presente texto tem nove anos e está inédito (fiz agora algumas alterações, mas não muitas...). Quer isso dizer que é muito anterior ao boom dos "comics studies". A maior parte do que se cita abaixo é...
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Did Comics Criticism Ever Exist?
I decided to translate the post below, so, here it goes:The present text was written nine years ago and was never published (I changed some things now, but not much). This means that it far predates...
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Harry Morgan
Two days ago I received the French magazine Bananas #4, published in 2012. I lost track of Bananas after issue # 2 and, now, wanting to buy the missing issues I had to start somewhere... I chose # 4...
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When Worlds Collide
The incredibly incompetent, incredibly ugly drawing you see above (by Terry Fowler) is on the cover of the Journal of Popular Culture Volume V, Summer 1971, which includes an "In-Depth" section titled:...
View ArticleWhen Worlds Collide - Coda
Browsing through all the tables of contents of the Journal of Popular Culture online I discovered that said anthology published another "In-Depth" section about comics in 1979: Volume XII, issue # 4,...
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Hugo Pratt: The Misinformation Continues!
This is outrageous: the misinformation about the great Héctor Germán Oesterheld in Europe continues!Here I found the following incredible claims:"(13) SGT. KIRK, dessins de Pratt (quelques encrages par...
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Hugo Pratt: The Misinformation Continues! A coda of sorts...
We all know the story... Hugo Pratt used Oesterheld's likeness to portray Scribe in the Sgt. Kirk series. He did the same thing in Ernie Pike. Pike's writing may be inspired by Ernie Pyle's, but his...
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Terceiras Conferências de Banda Desenhada em Portugal, 2013
No próximo dia 18 de Setembro vou participar nas Terceiras Conferências de Banda Desenhada em Portugal, 2013, com uma comunicação intitulada "Héctor Germán Oesterheld na Editora Columba". Desde já...
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Visado Pela Comissão de Censura
The Cisco Kid, by Rod Reed (w) and José Luis Salinas (a), February 21, 1951.Mundo de Aventuras # 94, May 31, 1951. (Cisco just walks in the thug's direction: is he a fool?)The Cisco Kid, by Rod Reed...
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Visado Pela Comissão de Censura - Coda
The editor of the magazine (director) as he appeared in Mundo de Aventuras # 437, January 2, 1958.In the last post I wrote: "A no guns policy [...] chopped arms off and forced editors to change plots."...
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Hugo Pratt: The Misinformation continues! - Coda (the real one this time)
Will this bullshit never stop? I guess that the great man himself, Hugo fucking Pratt is to blame. Li... er... daydreamer that he was he li... fantasized that he wrote those Ernie Pike stories and...
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Hugo Pratt: The Misinformation Continues (It Never Ends)
Juan Sasturain, Buscados Vivos, 2004.Let's remember again which Ernie Pike stories Dominique Petitfaux and other European critics claim that Hugo Pratt wrote: "Un blando" ("On ne se refait pas...")...
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Hugo's Swipe File
The Crib is dangerously becoming the debunk the Pratt myth blog (this must be the only anti-Pratt blog on the whole Internet!). Hugo Pratt the solo creator doesn't interest me in the least, mind you....
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