Neil Gaiman has been too busy lately to write much for comics unless it’s an event — like 1602 or his curiously pointless Eternals miniseries — but there’s still an audience for his stories in the direct market. So what’s a poor comics publisher to do? Well, if it’s Dark Horse, what you do is…
Manga Friday returns after a brief hiatus — I was on a secret mission in Darkest Florida, and unable to read manga and coherently think about them for several days — with a look at two very, very different books. We’ll start with the easier one to explain. Toto!: The Wonderful Adventure, Vol. 1 By…
Eddie Campbell has always done comics his way, without worrying about other people’s expectations or preferences — one of his two major series has been a fictionalization of his own life as a comics creator, and the other, a superficially more populist sequence about Greek gods in the modern world, was itself about storytelling more…
We’ve all occasionally wanted to go back in time — to fix something we screwed up the first time, to relive some particular time in our lives, or just to do something differently. But would we be able to do better the second time around? Alex Robinson’s new graphic novel — coming up in July…
Lemire is in the middle of an impressive thematically-related trilogy of stories about a rural bit of Ontario, Canada âÃÂàthe first book was Tales from the Farm, in early 2007, and the third, [[[The Country Nurse]]], will be along in October of this year. [[[Ghost Stories]]] is the middle book, but itâÃÂÃÂs a completely…
What do women want? Sigmund Freud thought he knew, but we all know about him. After a few decades of feminism, itâs become clearer that the best way to find out what women want is⦠to ask them. Sex and Sensibility Edited By Liza Donelly Hachette/Twelve, April 2008, $22.99 Donelly is a noted single-panel cartoonist…
Blue Pills By Frederik Peeters; translated by Anjali Singh Houghton Mifflin, January 2008, $18.95 This is another one of those semi-autobiographical graphic novels; I’m not going to assume that this is all “true” (whatever that means), but I will note that Peeters’s bio says that he lives with his girlfriend, her son, and their daughter…
This week, I’m giving over all of Manga Friday to the manga I was most looking forward to this year – a collection of dark, psychological stories from the creator who invented gekiga but who has been almost forgotten at home. Good-Bye By Yoshihiro Tatsumi; Translated by Yuji Oniki; Edited by Adrian Tomine Drawn &…
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow By James Sturm & Rich Tommaso Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2007, $16.99 This is a profoundly worthy book — produced under the asupices of The Center for Cartoon Studies, by two respected, serious modern cartoonists, published by the premier imprint for African-American children’s books, and about possibly the greatest…
This week, Manga Friday applies its lazer-like eye to one and only one book – luckily, this one is weird and confusing enough for any five regular volumes… Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro, Vol. 1 By Satoko Kiyuduki Yen Press, May 2008, $10.99 Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro is one of the few manga series I’ve seen with extensive color: about…
ACME Novelty Library, Vol. 18 By Chris Ware Drawn & Quarterly, 2007, $18.95 My friend and former colleague James Nicoll once said “Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts.” For me, Chris Ware fills the same function – Ware’s work is almost terminally depressing, but executed with such…
Fantasy Classics: Graphic Classics Vol. 15 Edited by Tom Pomplun Eureka Productions, 2008, $11.95 The “[[[Graphic Classics]]]” series most of the time sticks to a single author per volume, but not always – they’ve had [[[Horror Classics]]], [[[Adventure Classics]]], and [[[Gothic Classics]]] already, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see more along those lines. (There’s…
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