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Such Lovely Epidemics

Posted: August 6, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books
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“Such lovely epidemics…” Such horrific words, spoken by the basest of villains, gushing over his little test tube babies, cultivated with intent to decimate the human population. Scary stuff, evil is. And there’s plenty of it in in The Arctic Marauder, Fantagraphics‘ re-release (translated to English by co-founder Kim Thompson) of Jacques Tardi’s Le Demon des glaces. Originally published in 1974, this piece, early in Tardi’s oeuvre, has withstood the test of time, proven prescience, and only gained plausibility.

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The Wipeout!

Posted: July 30, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics
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What do you get when you cross the film noir classic Double Indemnity with whimsy and pastels? You get The Wipeout, Italian writer/illustrator Francesca Ghermandi’s obscure little masterpiece. That’s what.

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Witchy Woman

Posted: July 23, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics
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How many times have you wished for a “reset” button – a chance to undo or tweak something that you had done or said? Well, Katie, the chef/restauranteur/protagonist of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s new book, Seconds, has found some magical mushrooms that allow her to do just that. One mushroom before bed, a little wishful notebooking, and she wakes up in a world in which she has exercised her editorial rights. The trouble is, she can’t stop.

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The Eyes of the Cat

Posted: July 16, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics, Movies & Television
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If you’re looking for a case of the heebie jeebies, The Eyes of the Cat should deliver. Originally created in the late 1970’s for Les Humanoides Associes’ Metal Hurlant magazine, this comic was the first collaboration between artist Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, and writer/director Alexandro Jodorowsky. In few words, those words a lurid monster/child’s sinister soliloquy, Les Yeux du Chat, as it was originally titled, offered a succinct but substantial commentary on the nature of life.

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The Death Ray: Got A Light?

Posted: July 9, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics
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“How does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?” This is the central question of Daniel Clowes’ The Death Ray. And if this question hits home, you’re going to like Andy, the absurdest of superheroes. (more…)

The Love Bunglers, Hernandez in Hindsight

Posted: July 2, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books
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If you’ve read any of the Hernandez Brothers’ Love and Rockets books and have not already fallen in love with Maggie Chascarillo, Jaime Hernandez’s newest Fantagraphics release will most certainly convince you otherwise. A coming of age story, without the candy coating we’ve come to expect, The Love Bunglers explores the complexity of growing up – the icky feelings that come with the loss of innocence, with parents and their children becoming peers, and the trade-offs that come with the acquisition of wisdom. And it does so without ever losing sight of the wonder of it all.

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Le Pop!

Posted: June 25, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics
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The Adventures of Jodelle is pure pop.  In the best sense.  A tale of espionage and betrayal set in ancient Rome, but all its decadence, bacchanalia, and frivolity rendered in the most modern sense. 1960’s modern, mind you, inspired by the famous Gottlieb pinball machines.  So Rome is re-imagined as resembling some hybrid of the French Riviera and the Vegas strip, all neon and fluorescent, yet still flat, matte, and beautiful.  Immediately recognized as a game changer, this book is all about the art – as in the work within, and the movement so definitive of the devastating cultural explosion that was the 1960’s.

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Horribly Beautiful

Posted: June 18, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics
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What would happen if we had to start over? To rebuild and live simply, off the land, as they say? Well, according to Fabien Vehlmann and the artist collaboration known as Kerascoet, nothing good. Their new book, Beautiful Darkness, put out by Drawn and Quarterly, is a fairy tale gone demented, in which adorable and sinister prove to be inseparable.

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A Religious Experience…

Posted: June 11, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Image Comics
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Wow. It’s not just that it’s three hundred pages, but that it’s three hundred gorgeous pages. Three hundred gorgeous pages, all of them written and illustrated by one person, Indian artist Abhishek Singh. It comes as no surprise, then, that Krishna: A Journey Within was a four year endeavor, an exercise in perseverance and sacrifice, but also in love and bliss.

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Like David Lynch on Paper

Posted: June 4, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics, Movies & Television
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If David Lynch is your inspiration, and Jean Giraud does your blurb, you’ve pretty much arrived. Rightfully so in the case of Frederik Peeters. The Swiss graphic novelist of Blue Pills fame, has outdone himself with Pachyderme. Like his muse, Peeters plays with a blurry line between reality and surreality, and for the reader, the experience is more like negotiating a tightrope, just a precarious misstep away from some perhaps perilous but definitely peculiar fate.

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