Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth Written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; Art by Alecos Papadatos; Color by Annie Di Donna Bloomsbury, September 2009, $22.95 Ever so often, there’s an object lesson that proves the saying so many of us like to make: that comics aren’t just for adventure stories, that they’re suitable…
One hundred and one years ago this Saturday, a black man shook the world and did what many believed to be impossible. Today, his story is available in finer comic book retailers across America. The Original Johnson, Book 1 is Trevor Von Eeden’s personal and heartfelt graphic novel biography of Jack Johnson, the first African-American…
The Best American Comics 2009 Edited by Charles Burns; Series Editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2009, $22.00 Long ago, the wise minds at the “[[[Best American]]]” series of annuals at Houghton Mifflin – now covering everything from sportswriting to mystery stories – realized that they didn’t need to wait for…
Vatican Hustle Greg Houston NBM, December 2009, $11.95 There are stories that are inextricably mixed up with their original media, stories that would make very little sense translated into another form. Imagine a Gothic Romance novel as a puppet show, or a John Wayne Western as an opera. Until the moment I opened this book,…
Comics don’t have to be bad for you, you know. They can be edifying and uplifting, partaking of the greatest glories of the finest books even written. At least, that’s what the purveyors of various adaptations of “the great books” – curiously, nearly all of which were conveniently out of copyright and thus didn’t require…
It’s been twelve years after Robin Hood saved Marian and Sherwood and restored Richard to the throne. Is he living happily ever after? Of course not… Robin is a drunk. He hasn’t seen Marian since he saved her. He hasn’t seen the merry men, either. And now comes word that Marian has been jailed as…
Will Eisner has a towering place in the modern comics field – the premier awards in the field are named after him, and for good reason – due both to his pioneering Spirit newspaper insert from the ‘40s and ‘50s and to the graphic novels he started creating in the late ‘70s, after a long…
The Year of Loving Dangerously By Ted Rall and Pablo G. CallejoComicsLit, 128 pages, $18.95 Ted Rall is a talented, controversial opinion-maker through his columns and his cartoonists. His somewhat jaundiced look at life has been shaped by many factors, chief among them, 1984, the year referred to in the title of this courageous memoir…
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Two By Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben DC Comics, 224 pages, $24.99 DC’s hardcover collections of Alan Moore’s run on [[[Swamp Thing]]] continues with the release of the second volume next Wednesday. The nicest thing about these releases is that it prompts us to go back and reread…
Today’s 18th Annual Baltimore Writers’ Conference will feature Mark Wheatley writer-artist of Lone Justice, Frankenstein Mobster and EZ Street, as well as Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958 and others. Now in its 18th year, the one-day conference at Towson University in Towson, Maryland will…
To promote the reimagining of The Prisoner premiering this Sunday on AMC, they’ve created an online graphic novel to go along with it, written by M. Scott Veach and drawn by Mitch Breitweiser. The first chapter is up now, with some motion comics stuff, because everybody’s doing motion comics nowadays…
On this day in 1605, Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, found Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the English Parliament building, involved in a plot to blow up Parliament itself. The day was later known as “Guy Fawkes Day” and served as an inspiration for Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s graphic novel, V for…
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