April 29, 2013
Go Look: Yet Another Carmine Infantino Image Gallery
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Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked
By Tom Spurgeon
* I quite like the cover to the forthcoming
Reggie-12 collection from Brian Ralph,
featured over at D+Q.
*
here is a massive, lengthy post about an imminent work for which I have almost no other advanced knowledge:
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil.
* I bet
this Dash Shaw book does very well for Fantagraphics. That one's due in June, although I think it will be available wherever Shaw is doing appearances between now and then.
*
Anders Nilsen turns in an accordion-style book into D+Q.
* finally, one comic to look forward to in May
is the second issue of Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever. Tom Neely recently published both covers on Facebook: his is on the left, Livon Jihanian's is on the right.
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Go, Look: Early Warren Kremer Comics Art
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Go, Look: Paul Petro
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Sean T. Collins on
Road Of Knives. Rob Clough on
Madtown High #1-3. Todd Klein on
Wonder Woman #18 and
Resident Alien Vol. 1. Don MacPherson on
Jupiter's Legacy #1. Johanna Draper Carlson on
a bunch of Marvel comics. Grant Goggans on
a bunch of different Legion Of Super-Heroes comics. J. Caleb Mozzocco on
Justice League Of America: The Rise Of Eclipso.
*
gross.
* the DWA interview series begins with
Michel Rabagliati.
* Graeme McMillan
pokes at the idea that the Eisners somehow snubbed superhero comics with this year's nominations. McMillan asks out loud if this is where the cutting edge of the art form is these days. That there's a pathological reaction to an awards nominations slate with a load of superhero-related nominations in it is way more intriguing than any direction even a good writer like McMillan will go. It's defensive and odd. I know I still get hammered via e-mail when I suggest something like, say, that there aren't any superhero comics in any one of my year's top ten, with a line of thinking that things should somehow be balanced between that particular form of expression and others. I kind of thought most fans were past this, at least enough it wouldn't flare up as a conversational theme in a year where there still a ton of these titles and their creators up for awards. I have a deep and abiding affection for superhero comics, and think many of them are excellent and that overall the best of today's cape-and-cowl comics are probably underrated in terms of their overall quality and I still look at people pursuing these complaints with a raised eyebrow.
* finally,
there's apparently a documentary about Herblock gearing up out there.
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Happy 48th Birthday, Greg Holfeld!
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Happy 48th Birthday, Nat Gertler!
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Happy 38th Birthday, Ben Catmull!
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Happy 52nd Birthday, Andrew Mansell!
photo by Heather Peagler provided by Dustin Harbin
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Eisner Nominated News Site ComicsAlliance Shut Down
Here's a decent story on it. This was told to people at Stumptown Comics Fest before the weekend as a potential blogging panel focused on
ComicsAlliance folks was canceled and then re-booted as a more general blogging panel. News of the move of the
War Rocket Ajax podcast to Chris Sims' own site preceded the leaked news this morning.
My understanding is that four people were fully employed by the site, and that the freelancers were paid, which makes this a casualty in terms of the prose market for writers about the arts as well as a loss for comics.
I wish all of those people the best, and that they stick around comics in some capacity. I enjoyed reading that site.
literally typing this standing up in an airport; forgive any errors
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Not Really: Papercutz Blackballs The Comics Reporter
Here. So I guess
this is a thing now?
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Go, Look: Ronald Searle Editorial Illustrations
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AAEC Decries Rick Perry Ohman-Cartoon Apology Request
Alan Gardner
has a succinct write-up on the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists coming out in support of Jack Ohman by denouncing a request by Governor Rick Perry that he apologize for a cartoon about the role that lack of worker protections may have played in a recent Texas tragedy. There are a bunch of fascinating things about that whole back-and-forth, including this being one of those incidents where the decorum of talking about something seems to be of greater concern than any kind of analysis or criticism of the actual thing that happened. The comments are pretty good there, too.
One hope I have is that we could enjoy a dialogue about the timing issue at some point other in the midst of a specific example that people believe involves someone speaking out on a political matter "too soon."
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Go, Look: Men’s Adventures #25
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Go, Read: Stan Mack On A 1996 Cartoon And Today’s Events
Here. Not a lot of cartoonists talk/write as well about their own work as routinely as Stan Mack does.
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Go, Look: Some Gil Kane Marvel Covers
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