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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Horribly Beautiful
Posted: June 18, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: bande dessinee, Beautiful Darkness, Drawn and Quarterly, Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascoet, Marie Pommepuy, Sebastian Cosset
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A Religious Experience…
Posted: June 11, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Image ComicsTags: Abhishek Singh, Bhagavad Gita, Deepak Chopra, Hindu, Image comics, Indian mythology, Krishna: A Journey Within, Mahabharata, Vishnu
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.
“Calvin and Hobbes” Bill Watterson returns to Cartoons
Posted: June 11, 2014 by Brie Young in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, Cartoonist, Stephan Pastis, Team Cul De Sac
Not many cartoonists make brief unannounced returns to newspaper cartooning just for the hell of it– unless you are Bill Watterson. The retired Calvin and Hobbes creator “thought it would be funny” to on a “whim” collaborate with “Pearls Before Swine” cartoonist Stephan Pastis this week.
Like David Lynch on Paper
Posted: June 4, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics, Movies & TelevisionTags: Blue Pills, David Lynch, Donnie Darko, Frederik Peeters, Jean Giraud, Moebius, Pachyderme
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.
Ghosts and Grades!
Posted: May 28, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: Anya's Ghost, Coraline, ghosts, high school, Paranorman, teenager, Tim Burton, Vera Brosgol, YA
Oh high school… its trials and tribulations have provided fodder for some very cool writers and filmmakers. And now, Vera Brosgol, who has already made a name for herself in film and animation as storyboard artist for Coraline and story artist for Paranorman, has joined their ranks with her first full length graphic novel, Anya’s Ghost.Put out by First Second, it reads like a PG-13 Heathers with dash of cute.
Words on The Silence of Our Friends
Posted: May 21, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: 1960's, Civil Rights Act, Houston, Mark Long, Martin Luther King Jr., Nate Powell, Texas Southern University, The Silence of Our Friends
Exactly fifty years ago, the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin became illegal. Yet even today we are repeatedly reminded that, in action, the civil rights struggle is far from over. The Silence of Our Friends, Mark Long’s graphic memoir of his childhood amid escalating racial tensions in 1960‘s Houston, is a nostalgic but frank portrayal of this time and place, so paradoxically innocent and sinister.
Wake Up Call
Posted: May 14, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Dark Horse ComicsTags: biography, Bryan Talbot, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce, James S. Atherton, Mary M. Talbot, memoir, The Books at Wake
A literary graphic novel if ever there were one, The Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes is a hybrid of sorts. Partly, it is a biography of James Joyce’s daughter Lucia, a once promising ballerina who spent the last thirty years of her life in a mental institution. But Lucia’s tragic story is told via author Mary M. Talbot’s memoir. An account of her own childhood and relationship with her father, James S. Atherton, one of the world’s foremost Joycean scholars, the story explores Talbot’s ensuing and inevitable affinity with Lucia.
The Real Fifth Beatle
Posted: April 23, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Dark Horse ComicsTags: Andrew C. Robinson, Brian Epstein, Dark Horse Comics, Eisner Award, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, The Fifth Beatle, Vivek J. Tiwary
We’ve all heard about the imprint the Beatles left on the world. We’ve seen the footage of those four handsome boys with matching mop tops and Pierre Cardin suits performing in vain before mobs of young banshees whose sobbing, swooning, and rapture were well beyond disruptive. By the end of the 1960‘s it was clear that a sort of paradigm shift had occurred in American culture, and, chicken or egg, Beatlemania is integral to that story. The Fab Four saw an entire generation through an era unparalleled in social tumult, metamorphosis, and mythology. While it’s difficult, in the here and now, to imagine a world without the Beatles, The Fifth Beatle : The Brian Epstein Story, writer/producer Vivek Tiwary’s love letter to the band’s original manager, reveals the underlying serendipity of it all.
Review: Coming back for more Archeologists of Shadows
Posted: January 6, 2013 by Michael Houle in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: AoS, Archeologists of Shadows, comicology, Lara Fuentes, once a nightmare, Patricio Clarey, Septagon Studios Inc., Volume 2
Courtesy Septagon Studios, Inc.
Back in November, gameandcomic.com reviewed the first volume of Archeologists of Shadows, The Resistance. We were big fans, particularly noting the book’s fantastic action sequences and dreamlike art. (Read Andrew’s full review of A.O.S. Vol. 1 here.) But is the second installment of Septagon Studios’ most ambitious project, Once a Nightmare, any good? (more…)
Sneak Peek: Gorgeous art from Archeologists of Shadows, Vol. 2
Posted: January 5, 2013 by Michael Houle in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: Archeologists of Shadows, comic art, Patricio Clarey, Septagon Studios Inc., Steampunk
Courtesy Septagon Studios Inc.
Tomorrow, I’ll be revealing my review of Septagon Studios’ Archeologists of Shadows, Volume 2: Once a Nightmare. But as a sneak peek, check of some of Patricio Clarey’s art from the book ComicsBulletin.com called “absolutely breathtaking.” (more…)
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