CR Sunday Magazine

An Interview With Grady Klein



The second interview in our series with First Second creators on the occasion of their first season's launch is with Grady Klein, creator of The Lost Colony Book 1: The Snodgrass Conspiracy. Please enjoy.

Go, Read: Anders Nilsen Essay



Whoa



From the museum's description: "Wunderground celebrates the legendary art, artists and musicians rooted in Providence's Olneyville neighborhood froororm 1995 to the present. Conceived by a group of eight artists from the city's underground -- Mat Brinkman, Brian Chippendale, Jim Drain, Leif Goldberg, Jugil Hong, Xander Marro, Erin Rosenthal, and Pippi Zornoza -- Wunderground represents the first collective museum exhibition of works by those who brought the famous but now demolished Fort Thunder to life."

Superhero Covers I Like, Episode Nine



Herb Trimpe's cover work for Marvel varied wildly, even by the rough standards established by second-generation Marvel artist covers. The above is in my opinion one of his good ones, although quite a bit different than the bulk of his effective cover work, which tended to favor imaginatively staged but abstract scenes of the lead character, or the lead in sudden motion. In contrast this cover is boldly split in half, each half leaping out at the reader with non-comic book variations on black (dark gray) and white (ivory), the lettering and the title are in a way both pushed back into the art in a way that evokes the "event" status of the story, and the eye travels nicely up the back of the sabretooth tiger Zabu to an almost publicity-photo type scene between the Hulk and his guest-star. The visual slide ends with Ka-Zar, which gives him a lot of power on the cover. Note, too, how the Hulk kind of plays up against the Hulk title and Ka-Zar lines up against the lettering below him, so you subliminally understand which character is which. The barbarian-type theme flatters the quirks of Trimpe's penciling more than a scene of futurisitc technology might. Overall, this presents the reader with a question -- what's the Hulk going to be like in this crazy place? -- that doesn't offer up an easy answer like the typical hero-in-danger cover might.

J. Chris Campbell Talks Funnybooks



Initial Thought of the Day (Not Comics)

Here's how to bet the Triple Crown races if you don't play on studying beforehand.

Kentucky Derby -- Go for value by picking horses that go off in the 15 to 1, 40 to 1 range.
Preakness -- Bet the Kentucky Derby winner if they fall below 5 to 1. If there is one, pick a local horse to Show.
Belmont -- Bet a horse that won on a similar track.
 
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