First he appeared in Models, Inc. #1 last month, then he appeared on our own Crazy Sexy Geeks videocast, and now he’s appearing on The Late Late Show with Aquaman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GloEXqOcqIg For that matter, later on in the show, host Craig Ferguson spent time talking with Sir Salman Rushdie talking about how he was approached…
If you’ve ever visited Smith magazine, you’ve probably been there for the great comics (A.D.: After the Deluge, The Pekar Project, Next-Door Neighbor, Graphic Therapy, Shooting War, and My Home Birth) and their innovative Six Word Memoirs. Inspired by the famous anecdote of Ernest Hemingway telling a complete story in only six words (“For Sale:…
Stitches: A Memoir David Small W.W. Norton, September 2009, $24.95 You can’t write a memoir these days unless you had a bad childhood – call it the Law of Oprah. You have to have some horrible secrets, either your own or those of your parents/keepers/guardians, that you can reveal, tearfully, to an enthralled TV audience…
The impulse to anecdote is ubiquitous in mankind; we all want to tell our own stories. Since those stories happened to us, we naturally think that they’re fascinating…and sometime are surprised when the rest of the world doesn’t agree with us. Comics creators have been spilling out their lives onto their pages for a few…
Amulet Book Two: The Stonekeeper’s Castle By Kazu Kibuishi Scholastic/Graphix, 220 pages, $21.99 (hardcover) $9.99 (paperback) Kazu Kibuishi is a talented animator and comic artist who has produced several graphic novel series, including [[[Flight, Daisy Kutter: The Last Train]]], and now [[[Amulet]]]. The first volume came out over a year ago and now Scholastic has…
]]]The Good Neighbors, Book Two: Kith]]] By Holly Black and Ted Naifeh Scholastic/Graphix, October 2009, $16.99 Trilogies can be tricky things to pull off successfully. Quite often, a single event is a surprise success and suddenly gets expanded into a trilogy. Why? Because it feels like an expanded version of the three-act structure that has…
Jules Feiffer is known for his work as a graphic novelist, a cartoonist, a screenwriter, a novelist, and a playwright – although among comics fans he is perhaps best known as Will Eisner’s long-time assistant on, and oft-time writer of, The Spirit. But in the outside world, he might very well be best known as…
The long-awaited graphic novel Hammer Of The Gods: Mortal Enemy by Mike (Powers) Oeming and Mark Wheatley will be debuting at this week’s Baltimore Comic-Con. All three will be available at the Insight Studios booth, #1911. Furthermore, the remaining 70 copies of the Lone Justice ashcan edition will also be available. Serialized here on ComicMix,…
High Moon Dave Gallaher & Steve Ellis DC Comics, 192 pages, $14.99 DC’s online imprint, Zuda Comics, has certainly been a hit or miss affair but when it hits, there’s a pleasure in discovering new talent or new concepts. While [[[Bayou]]] was a breakout hit, the most consistent entry remains [[[High Moon]]], written by former…
I should start by quoting something weighty – the most obvious would be that old Tolstoy saw about happy and unhappy families – but let’s take that as written, shall we? Comics have given short shrift to families for the past seventy years – at least, the American comic-book industry has, though strip comics grew…
The legendary Irwin Hasen, co-creator of DC’s original Wildcat who is best known for his work on the classic newspaper comic strip Dondi, has written and drawn a 128-page graphic novel. Not bad for a guy 91 years old. Loverboy, which purports to be something of a dramatized autobiography, will be released by Vanguard Publishing…
Everything is going to hell. Everything is always going to hell, and always has been, of course, but it’s going to hell even more now than it ever has been, and quicker, too. And so we get ever more stories about those hells – like these two very different books that I have to talk…
