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September 30, 2010
By aaroncostain
Article, Draw Buildings, Build Drawings, Series
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Reading Drawings: Architecture and Comics

I will look at how we read both architectural drawings and comics, based on my own understanding of how each works.

September 29, 2010
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Drunken Slow-Rolling Dream, Series
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Incoherent Dreams

Last week I wrote about the first four stories in Moto Hagio’s “Drunken Dream.” All of those stories had coherent themes, recognizable characters, and linear plots with a beginning, middle, and end. They all also, and not coincidentally, sucked. The title story of the volume, “A Drunken Dream,” is, on the other hand, an incoherent [...]

September 28, 2010
By Richard Cook
Blog
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Time Capsule, Part 2

To celebrate my impending thirtieth, I decided to take a look at the comics being published during the month of my birth, September 1980. Last week, I reviewed a handful of mostly disappointing DC titles. Will Marvel fare better? Peter Park, The Spectacular Spider-Man #46 Writer: Roger Stern Pencils: Mike Zeck Inks: Bruce Patterson Colors: P. Goldberg [...]

September 27, 2010
By Ng Suat Tong
Article, Blog
20 comments

Commercial Interlude: Blacksad

A Review of Blacksad (Vol. 1-3) by Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist) Would you pay 18000 Euros (approx US$ 23,500) for this? [Cover to Blacksad Volume 3 Red Soul] Well, someone did. Actually, I lie. That 18,000 Euros was just the upper estimate on this album cover which finally sold for 37,303 [...]

Monthly Stumblings 5: Bruno Lecigne

Bruno Lecigne’s “De la confusion des languages” (on the mixing up of the languages) My monthly stumblings are, sometimes, restumblings, really… This past weeks I restumbled at least twice: on Otto Dix’s Der Krieg (the war) and Bruno Lecigne’s ”De la confusion des languages” (Controverse – controversy -, May 1985). In “De la confusion…” Bruno Lecigne presented eight chapters about [...]

Utilitarian Review 9/25/10

On HU To start out the week kinukitty reviewed the yaoi manga Hiro Madarame’s Scarlet. Ng Suat Tong discussed Jacques Tardi’s It Was the War of the Trenches in comparison to other war narratives. Richard Cook looked at the DC comics that came out in the month he was born, September 1980. Alex Buchet continued [...]

September 24, 2010
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Drunken Slow-Rolling Dream, Series
25 comments

Die, Little Girls! Die!

I plan to do a number of posts blogging my way through n Moto Hagio’s Drunken Dream, released recently by our kind hosts at Fantagraphics. I’m a fan of Hagio’s work…or of as much of it as I’ve seen. (See my review of AA’.) And I have great, great respect for translator and editor Matt [...]