February 23, 2007
Your Feature Article Friday Round-Up
If you find yourself with some extra downtime on a Friday afternoon...
* David Welsh
says enough already with the marketing principle that suggests manga is the Amuse Bouche that precedes the western comics meal of a lifelong relationship to the comics form.
*
Nerve has rolled out the rest of its comics issue since the last time we looked in. This includes comics by
Jim Mahfood,
Meg Hunt and
Leah Hayes; a
Q&A with the great Roz Chast, a semi-baffling list of
20 Comics That Can Change Your Life; a look at
the Gordon Lee case; and a delving into
those Children of God comics that have been an internet favorite for a while now.
* The new issue of
High Hat features
an interview by Chris Lanier of Aleksandr Zograf, a
review of
Skibber Bee Bye by same, and a not-comics but wonderfully worthy
piece about murdered animator Helen Hill.
* Steven Swalley and the International Cartoonist Conspiracy check in with the
How to Make Comics mini-comic, Swalley's summary of
cartoonist parlor games, and the launch of the sure to be fun if slightly insane-sounding
Gross Comics Project.
* Finally, Graeme McMillan
offers up an interesting review of Marvel's mega-crossover finale
Civil War #7 in that it's laced with disgust for the material, its messages, and the way it was presented to readers. It's increasingly difficult to tell in mainstream comics the difference between comics that bring a certain reaction from a certain kind of fan while still entertaining the crap out of the bulk of readers, and those comics which strike a false chord in a way that negative reaction like McMillan's is the harbinger of a potential walking away from the material by a significant number of fans. One of the things at risk with such a great emphasis on mega-crossovers is that a bad one could have a hangover effect to drive away readers of those kinds of books generally, not just one title or a group.
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