Despite benevolent intentions, organized religion has facilitated, provoked, and justified acts heinous and horrific enough to make anyone paying attention a bit Godsick. That said, Joanne Sfar’s The Rabbi’s Cat is a breath of fresh air. Set in 1930’s Algeria, a time and place in which Arabs and Jews were able to coexist, and narrated by Majrum, the cat, this story offers a fresh outsider’s perspective on religion with a healthy dose of humor.
Posts Tagged ‘bande dessinee’
The Rabbi’s Cat
Posted: September 17, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, GeneralTags: bande dessinee, cats, Joann Sfar, Judaism, Pantheon Books, The Rabbi's Cat
Such Lovely Epidemics
Posted: August 6, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: bande dessinee, Fantagraphics, icepunk, Jacques Tardi, Kim Thompson, Le Demon des glaces, Steampunk, The Arctic Marauder
“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.
The Eyes of the Cat
Posted: July 16, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent Comics, Movies & TelevisionTags: Alexandro Jodorowsky, bande dessinee, Humanoids, Jean Giraud, Les Yeux du Chat, Moebius, The Eyes of the Cat
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.
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.