I like reading short stories much more than I like writing about them. And I don’t read short fiction all that much, so maybe I don’t even enjoy even reading them as much as I think I do. That’s complicated math, so I’ll leave it there. Jordan Crane has been making comics for thirty years,…
I should have realized they were commercial illustrators – their work has all of the hallmarks. The polish, the construction, the architecture of the comics panels. It all shows a deep insight into design and a deep concern for design, for telling stories precisely and sharply. I didn’t quite realize that the first few times…
There are times when I don’t have much to say here. I read a book, I mostly liked it, I’ve already read a number of things by the same creator, I don’t have anything particularly new or specific to say this time. And that sounds so horribly minimizing, doesn’t it? But “this is good stuff,…
This is a flashback: you need to know that first. Guy Delisle’s comics career has been mostly circling the lands of memoir – a series of longer, more serious books about his travels, created when he was a working animator and/or lived in interesting places of the world (Shenzhen , Pyongyang , Burma Chronicles, Jerusalem…
…is write science fiction. There’s a lovely little piece he wrote with New York Times best-selling author David Mack up today at Crazy 8 Press entitled “If You Were A Puppy, My Sweet“. And if you thought this might have anything to do with Rabid Puppies… you deserve an award.
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews by Tommy HancockâJust Another Day in ParadiseâA Collection of Short Fiction by Katherine Tomlinson Available through http://www.smashwords.com/) Pulp comes in many shades and although most of them concern good versus evil, over the top action, and high adventure, some are more sullen, somber, and sadistic. Dark fiction has haunted Pulp since its…
