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Superheroes, Strip Artists & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists Review
2011, Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written by Britt Aamodt
Beneath the colourful imagery, comic books have always held a certain tragedy. Behind every fantastical world and heroic individual rising against the forces of evil there’s some poor, solitary soul confined to a drawing board, wondering how they were ever naïve enough to believe that drawing/writing comics could pay the bills. … read more
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Tagged comic books, comic strips, indie comics, small press, superhero comics
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Ted Rall Returns to Afghanistan
When Ted Rall decided that the media wasn’t giving him the full story on the situation in Afghanistan, he took a page out of Joe Sacco’s Palestine and set off to report from his first hand experiences. The result of that 2001 journey was To Afghanistan & Back. The book is reportedly considered to have been the first “instant … read more
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Tagged comic strips, comix, indie comics, Ted Rall, underground comics
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The Legacy Graphic Novel Review
DragonFish Comics, 2009
Story: Andrew McGinn
Art: David Neitzke
You only have to wander into your local specialist store to appreciate just how reluctant the comic industry is to cater beyond its established demographics. Like timid weeds the US publishers have dug deep into several small niches and seem reluctant to branch out into unfamiliar territory. Andrew McGinn and David … read more
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Cartoonist Sandra de Haan’s Strips Get The English Treatment
Dutch comic artist Sandra de Haan is currently translating her excellent comic strips into English. Her humour definitely translates well, with Sandra’s candid strips commenting on anything from surviving film festivals and enduring the BBC’s wilting standards to the social intricacies of toileting. She has a unique brand of quirk that will definitely appeal to fans of Nemi and the … read more
Will Eisner’s The Contract with God Trilogy Review
2006
Written and illustrated by Will Eisner
To this day there has not been a cast of comic book characters quite like the residents of Will Eisner’s 55 Dropsie Avenue. These desperate souls are a world apart from the usual artists, journalists, existential twenty-something and precocious kids who generally represent the “everyday man” in comics. Without prospects or even hope … read more
Christmas Comics Gift Guide 2008
We’ve all suffered those moments when parents, spouses or creepy bearded men ask us for Christmas present suggestions, and struggled with but one. Well struggle no longer, with this concise graphic novel shopping guide.
Rather than concentrate on Chrimbo themed books, I’m opting for the classics, personal choices and the odd surprise. No, this has nothing to do with the … read more
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Nemi vol. II (2) Book Review
2008, Titan Books
Written/Illustrated by: Lise Myrhe
At first glance Lise Myrhe’s Norwegian comic icon Nemi Montoya appears to have been designed specifically for the licensing of T-Shirts, bags and whatever the kids of today are buying. UK readers may be familiar with the Nemi strip, or at least its English translation, from the Metro newspaper, though the Goth demographic … read more
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