The two books this week are actually manwha rather than manga, since they come from Korea and not Japan. Other than the reading direction, both of these books are more similar to their Japanese counterparts than to American comics, which I will demonstrate, viz: Croquis Pop, Vol. 1 Story by KwangHyun Seo; Art by JinHo…
It’s generally not a good sign when a series turns from telling stories at the far end of its timeline to filling in the gaps in earlier stories and explaining all the backstory — do I need to mention George Lucas here? — so these two new collections filled me with some trepidation. They’re both…
Out of Picture, Vol. 2 no editor credited Villard Books, June 2008, $tk No one will admit to editing [[[Out of Picture 2]]], though they seem to be proud of it – buried deep on the copyright page is the “produced by” credit I’ve pulled out for the bibliographic information above, but that doesn’t necessarily…
In the last few weeks, both of Mike Mignola’s related series for Dark Horse have hit their eighth collected volumes. So, while the second movie – prominently advertised on both covers – is still forthcoming, let’s see what’s going on with the Hellboy of the printed world. Hellboy, Vol. 8: Darkness Calls Written by Mike…
This is another one of those weeks when we’re heading back over territory we’ve seen before – I’ve got three follow-up volumes today, all from Yen Press, of somewhat different manga series. So let’s take the zombies first, shall we? Zombie-Loan, Vol. 3 By Peach-Pit Yen Press, June 2008, $10.99 This volume starts off very…
Batman Grendel By Matt Wagner DC Comics/Dark Horse, February 2008, $19.95 [[[Batman Grendel]]] collects two short series – each one was just two 50-page issues long – originally titled [[[Batman/Grendel]]] and [[[Batman/Grendel II]]]. The slash has disappeared for the collected edition – perhaps because now the names of two male characters separated by a slash…
How to Love By Batia Kolton, David Polonsky, Mira Friedmann, Itzik Rennert, Rutu Modan, and Yirmi Pinkus; translated by Ishai Mishory Actus/distributed by Top Shelf, August 2008, $29.95 Actus is an Israeli comics collective that publishes one joint project annually; their members are the six contributors to this book. This book was published in Israel…
The Complete Peanuts, 1967-1968 By Charles M. Schulz; foreword by John Waters Fantagraphics, February 2008, $28.95 By 1967, [[[Peanuts]]] wasn’t just another comic strip in the local newspaper, it was a media phenomenon. The first TV special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, had won an Emmy amid universal acclaim two years earlier, and You’re a Good…
One of the differences – I won’t say “advantages,” since opinion differs on that subject – of manga from Western-style superhero comics is that manga stories all have endings, eventually. Oh, “eventually” can be a long, long time coming – two decades, in some cases – but manga are created by one person or set…
Joann Sfar, one of the major lights of the current European graphic novel scene, has written or collaborated on more than one hundred books, but probably his most famous and acclaimed work is the original [[[The Rabbi’s Cat]]], which won the prestigious Jury Prize at the Festival International de la BD d’Angouleme (Angouleme International Comics…
Joann Sfar, one of the major lights of the current European graphic novel scene, has written or collaborated on more than one hundred books, but probably his most famous and acclaimed work is the original [[[The Rabbi’s Cat]]], which won the prestigious Jury Prize at the Festival International de la BD d’Angouleme (Angouleme International Comics…
The “Dungeon” series has gotten so full of stories, so complicated, that there’s a diagram on the back of this book to explain how all of the sub-series relate to each other. Up top are the three main sequences – The Early Years (the creation), Zenith (the height), and Twilight (the downfall), as it says…
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