Category: read comics and manga
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Revisiting Zoe Thorogood on her Lonely Earth and Finding Discovery
So as you know I had already read it but I cracked the new Zoe Thorogood up for a reread while on a flight to Thailand expecting to give it a deeper dive and really unearth more in terms of influences and just thematic elements and what I found was I just got locked into…
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The First 50 Love and Rockets to Celebrate The Hernandez Bros 40th
Well you already know I dig Jaime Hernandez art and Love and Rockets in general so should be no surprise I was getting this. I love it and it was one of the dozen comic purchases I have been eyeing for the year as I love adding those definitive editions of top-tier comics. You throw…
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Art Day – lil Maggie by Jaime Hernandez
Love and Rockets with a lil menace. Also check out my thoughts on the recently released Love and Rockets: The First Fifty.
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New (old) Miyazaki and Wong Kar Wai is a good week in the World
aka asian heaven.
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Beetle Bailey Art Day
Added some comic strip goodness to the collection.
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Entering the Magical Cities of Victoria Ying
Some thoughts on City of Illusion by Victoria Ying.
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Bryan Lee O’Malley Does Twin Peaks Scott Pilgrim Style
Bryan Lee O’Malley art for Puerto Rico and a Twin Peaks confession.
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Golden Bricks & Bronze Age with Eric Shanower – Interview
I just introduced my goddaughter to an old favorite of mine Return to Oz which scared the shit out of me as a kid in a way none of the iconic horror films of the decade did. No better time to re-present a lengthy interview I conducted with cartoonist Eric Shanower who has Oz stripes.
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In the House of Mystery with Lilah Sturges – Interview
Some really good stuff in this old chat I had with Sturges. For fans of Vertgio, DC comics, storytelling, and/or speculative fiction in general.
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Piskor’s Grand Design X-Tinction Aims At Cyclopean Baby Momma Drama
Poolside with baby Cable reliving ’90s X-Men.
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Bloodshot? 10 VALIANT Comics to Own Before They Become Movies
Pandemic streaming is here.
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The Smurfs Debut in the 1950s as Zombie Comic and Brunette Smurfette?
lalalalalala… you the first time the Smurfs revealed themselves and Smurfette’s first original hair color exposed!
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Gargamel Enters Smurfs Lives in Silhouette
Peyo’s early cartooning and design is pretty terrific. 1959 Gargamel looks like the broken down Wizard we all know.
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A Stray Bullet? Whatever Happened to David Lapham’s Defiant Mongrel?
And what does George Romero have to do with it if anything?
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What the Smurf? The First Glimpse of Peyo’s Schtroumpf
A Smurf sighting. The very first hint of the existence of characters that would create a multimedia licensing empire for Peyo.
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Are You Listening? Read Tillie Walden Comics
The world is alright. I’m hanging out in the backyard all poolside with new Tillie Walden comics.