Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar (Studies in Popular Culture)
Journalista (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
“Each cartoonist has a unique sensibility but was bitten by this comics bug, and sees things through that particular prism. The only common denominator is that it takes a lot of patience and craft.” - Art Spiegelman Now free and online for your reading pleasure: The Comics Journal #300. Click here and dig in! Yes, you heard right. [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've written about this before , but it's getting very close now: The 33rd issue of McSweeney's is going to take the form of a Sunday newspaper titled The San Francisco Panorama : It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides)...
POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Chip Kidd, renowned book cover designer is currently on a trip to Ireland and this evening he did an interview for Culture Shock , an arts program on one of Ireland's national radio broadcasters, Newstalk, hosted by Fionn Davenport. Chip Kidd is an associate art director at Knopf , an imprint of Random House . He joined the Knopf book design team in 1986, turning out jacket designs at an average of...
A Year of Reading (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE, and the Changing Face of Comics Starring: Jeff Smith and Scott McCloud Director: Ken Mills, Mills James Productions, 2009 Rating: Not Rated Format: DVD Jeff Smith never intended his Bone series to be read by children. His inspiration came from Moby Dick and Huck Finn and Star Wars -- he wanted to make something really big, something that started simple and then darkened...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics is perhaps the most seminal historical comics anthology since A Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics, and a powerfully persuasive document arguing for a more linear, storytelling based tradition of comics. It’s also full of comics by Harvey Kurtzman, Walt [...]
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Read a graphic novel. If you are not already a fan of comic strips and/or comic books, you might be surprised to find just how sophisticated they can be. Graphic novels tell a story in graphic form, using the images and minimal text style of comics to convey what a regular novel does in words alone. The term is used about stories too long to publish in one single edition of a comics magazine, and describes...
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Cartoonist Will Eisnerat the Inkpt Awards ceremony at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con (today called Comic-Con International).Photo taken by Alan Light from Wikipedia. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. Daily Thoughts 9/10/2009 Right now, I am reading Graphic Novels Now Building, Managing, and Marketing A Dynamic Collection by Francisca Goldsmith. This book is about graphic novels in libraries....
The Beguiling Books & Art (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate to what we will be charging in store, but all disputes between prices will defer to the stickered, in-store price. Click here for the complete list: /shipping090902.txt The Beguiling Recommends: JUL090578...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Each week I am featuring one of my favorite reads from the past. If you choose to participate please leave a link to your post in the comments. This week I chose Maus I: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman (published in 1986 and 1991 respectively). Summary (from Wikipedia ): Maus: A Survivor's Tale is a memoir by Art Spiegelman, presented as a graphic...
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Media Release -- Issue No. 299 of The Comics Journal [in-stores August 2009, premiering at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con] unearths a long-lost treasure: Way back in 1970, satirist/editor Michel Choquette conceived a mammoth anthology of new comics from all over the world by just about every cartoonist imaginable circa 1970 (as well as such unimaginable cultural icons as Federico Fellini and Frank Zappa)....
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Art Spiegelman has a comic in the Washington Post about the St. Louis, a 1939 ship filled with Jewish refugees from Europe that was denied asylum in the US and sent back. Spiegelman focuses on some of the media-related aspects of the shameful story, with his usual bite.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus was hailed as a masterpiece. He's still recovering. As his sketchbooks are published for the first time, he explains all to Angelique Chrisafis 'I want a blood test," Art Spiegelman shrugs when asked about his status as the father of the graphic novel. Twenty years ago, the wise-cracking New York cartoonist changed the history of comic books with the first...
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