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The 40th Anniversary of Alack Sinner
Comics scholarship is sorely missing positive data about lots of things... For instance, where and when do you think that "Alack Sinner," by José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo, was published for the first...
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Colecção de Romances Gráficos do Público
A primeira prancha de "Sudor Sudaca" ["Sudore Meticcio"] com dedicatória de Carlos Sampayo. Frigidaire # 19, Junho de 1982. O jornal Público vai editar uma colecção de doze romances gráficos, facto que...
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James Edgar
I couldn't believe my eyes! Finally someone knew some bio data about one of the true geniuses who worked in comics: UK's scriptwriter James Edgar.Here's (please scroll down) Bob Lorenzo's comment on...
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João Bénard da Costa - O Crítico
Clara Azevedo, João Bénard da Costa, Expresso - A Revista, 1 de Dezembro de 1990.Aparentemente este post não tem nada a ver com banda desenhada. Aparentemente, digo, porque se não tem muito a ver com...
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João Bénard da Costa - O Crítico - Coda
Contei-lhes - tão mal - dez minutos (se tanto) de um filme [The Searchers, John Ford et al, 1956] com duas horas. Se vos quisesse contar bem, nem um livro me teria chegado. Deixei de fora quase tudo e...
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Nota
Héctor Germán Oesterheld (e), Arturo del Castillo (d), "Jinetes Vengadores" [cavaleiros vingadores], Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal # 21, 22 de Janeiro de 1958. Randall e Martine.Reparo agora que juntei...
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João Bénard da Costa - The Critic - Coda
I wrote the last posts in Portuguese because they were about a Portuguese film critic and columnist. It made no sense to me to write about him in English. But I changed my mind, at least in what...
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Eric Khoo, Tatsumi, 2011 (trailer).Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who's important for this blog because he coined the term gekiga, died yesterday.
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Os fans que lêem livros de banda desenhada não querem realismo e os leitores de literatura não esperam encontrá-lo na banda desenhada.Harvey Pekar, "In This Interview: Stories About Honesty, Money, and...
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Algumas Considerações Sobre o Romance Gráfico
O prometido é devido e, por isso, vou retomar um dos fios narrativos da minha última entrada (fonte: Heidi MacDonald, "New Codes For Graphic Novels" [novos códigos oara os romances gráficos], The...
View ArticleDominique Goblet On Autobiography
"Dominique Goblet On Autobiography," Relief Vol. 2 # 3, 2008, a film by Pascal Lefèvre
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The Year Was 2000
As part of my 1990s nostalgia or thereabouts (the golden age, eh eh) I give you two illos and a comics page published in Drawn & Quarterly's calendar for the year 2000.SethJoe MattChester BrownThe...
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The Graphic Novel, An Introduction by Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey
Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey, The graphic Novel, An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2015 (cover by Chris Ware).Maybe it's my fault, but I expected so much from two of the comics scholars that I...
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Look at the images below. Do you find any significant aesthetic differences between them? If you do your eye is keener than mine because I don't.Alex Ross, Justice # 1, DC Comics, 2006.Jules Perahim,...
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Dave Westaway In Memoriam
Dave Westaway, photo by Des Shaw.I missed his passing, but Dave Westaway passed away last November 29. Who was Dave, you ask? Dave Westaway was the heart and soul of the ADCCC's (All Devon Comics...
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The Graphic Novel, An Introduction by Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey - Part Two
Winsor McCay, "Little Nemo In Slumberland" Sunday page, February 2, 1908 (part of the Befuddle Hall sequence). In his book Case, planche, récit [panel, page, narrative] Benoît Peeters said that the...
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The Graphic Novel, An Introduction by Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey - Part Three
Seth (d), Charles Schulz (a), The Complete Peanuts Vol. 1, Fantagraphics, 2004.Part three of my review of Baetens' and Frey's The Graphic Novel, An Introduction is also about part three of the book...
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The Graphic Novel, An Introduction by Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey - Coda
Olivier Poppe, Frigobox # 1, Fréon, November 1994.This book is a sad sign of the barbarian neoliberal times in which we are unfortunately living in. If you think that the political reference is...
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Ernie Pike - Coda # 1
If you ask any European comics reader about "Ernie Pike" s/he will tell you that Ernie Pike is a comic by Hugo Pratt. Some, but not many, will tell you that "Ernie Pike" is a comic by Hugo Pratt,...
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Ernie Pike - Coda # 2
Enrique Cristóbal (a), Jorge Oesterheld (as Jorge Mora - w), "Ernie Pike: Operación Fritz," [Operation Fritz] Hora Cero Extra! # 4, October 1958.Oscar Estévez (a), Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), "Ernie...
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