The Boston Comics Roundtable and River Bird Studios Presents Outbound #1, the science fiction comics anthology. In Outbound, readers find a cluster of comics spanning throughout space and time. The protagonists of the stories varies from a futuristic race to high-tech humans or the less common hero—a flea. Not just any flea, but a flea in space.
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“Outbound #1: The Science Fiction Comics Anthology” Review
Posted: June 26, 2014 by Brie Young in Comicology - Comic Books, General, Independent ComicsTags: Boston Comics Roundtable, Outbound, Outbound #1, River Bird Studios, Science Fiction Anthology
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Le Pop!
Posted: June 25, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: bande dessinee, Fantagraphics, Francois Hardy, Gottlieb, Guy Peelleart, Hara-Kiri, Pierre Bartier, Sylvie Vartan, The Adventures of Jodelle
Photo Credit: Fantagraphics
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.
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
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.
‘Avengers and X-men: AXIS’ Details Revealed
Posted: June 17, 2014 by Brie Young in Comicology - Comic Books, General, MarvelTags: Iron Man, Marvel, Red Skull, X-Men, Xavier
Marvel released details of the fall event series where two best sellers, Avengers and X-men, will join up again (after Uncanny Avengers) against a common super villain.
The upgraded villain of the series is Red Skull, as known from Captain America, and his telepathic powers gained from parts of Professor Xavier’s brain… Ah, the perfect mixture of the two groups.
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.
The ‘Original Sin’ of Iron Man and Hulk
Posted: May 27, 2014 by Brie Young in Comicology - Comic Books, General, MarvelTags: Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Marvel, Original Sin
Coming up this summer– the showdown between Hulk and Iron Man. Four issues of Original Sin #3.1-3.4, co written by Hulk writer Mark Waid and Iron Man writer Kieron Gillen, deal with the revelation that Stark potentially designed the gamma bomb…. you know, the one that turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk.There’s some thirty plus years of Banner’s personal guilt trips gone down the drain.
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.
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