Comics-and-More (Free subscription) | yesterday
Diligently wading through the phone book that is Previews Catalogue so you don't have to...here are ten choice books shipping to comic shops in February that I think may get overlooked or that I'm just plain excited about... 1. Hernandez Brothers collections - There are several new collections featuring Hernandez Brothers comics, for whichever of the three formats you are collecting Love & Rockets...
Drawn! (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
With trick or treaters about to converge on my front porch I thought I’d better get one last Hallowe’en related post in! Every night this week my bedtime stories have come from this handsome hardcover collection of John Stanley’s Melvin Monster. Frankly ( or should I say “Frankensteinly” ) I totally missed this Melvin character [...]
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
How cool is it that a 12-year-old cartoonist would dedicate her fun new book of cartoons to old-school masters like Sergio Aragones and John Stanley? (I imagine her father, underground cartoonist and publisher Denis Kitchen, gave her access to tons of excellent comics, which inspired her to become a cartoonist herself.) Alexa Kitchen's good taste in cartoonists shines in Grown-Up are Dumb! (No Offense),...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
The second release from Drawn and Quarterly’s John Stanley Library collection features a much better known property than Melvin Monster—Ernie Bushmiller’s comic strip heroine Nancy. As was the case with the Melvin book, Nancy Vol. 1 is a gorgeously designed and packaged book, something collection-ophiles can look at and handle with admiration. Seth uses Nancy’s emoticon-simple...
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Time to take a look at what books have wandered over and stayed to my bedside all summer. There are some more books (LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE V2 and THE COLLECTED DOUG WRIGHT, for instance) that I've read and then dutifully shelved. But these volumes have created a small leaning tower, ready for thumbing thru any night, since Spring. I like John Stanley's comics work. MELVIN THE MONSTER , a 1960s era series...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
In addition to being one of the most acclaimed cartoonists of this era, Seth ( It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken , Wimbledon Green ) has become renowned for his extensive knowledge of cartoonists and illustrators. Seth’s appreciation for the masters extends to an involvement with the reprint projects for Charles Schulz ( The Complete Peanuts ), kiddie-comics purveyor John Stanley...
Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
I bought the five Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy books published by Kitchen Sink Press in the late '80s/very early '90s, spurred on by snippets of the books I'd seen in magazines, the admiration of the strip by one of my favorite cartoonists, (Bill "Zippy the Pinhead" Griffith), and my old friend Rob extolling the virtues of the comic. I'd never thought much about the strip prior to that. I was...
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