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“I think happiness is overrated.”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chris ware, comics, graphic novels, interview, Jimmy Corrigan on May 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

A nice, relatively brief interview with Chris Ware that is worth watching for two reasons— (1) It spotlights Chris Ware, perhaps the single most important graphic novelist of, well…I think that’s it: the single most important graphic novelist (his epic masterwork, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, being the standard case for legitimizing comics [...]

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Comics Works: Kramer’s Ergot 8

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged C.F., comic book, comics, Dash Shaw, Frank Santoro, Gabrielle Bell, Kramer's Ergot, PictureBox, Sammy Harkham on March 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Kramer’s Ergot 8, the latest volume in artist/editor Sammy Harkham’s anthology series, collects works from high-profile comics figures such as Gary Panter, Kevin Huizenga, and Gabrielle Bell. Many of the book’s contributors would appear equally at home in books like the annual Best American Comics anthology or other primers for casual comics fans. But Kramer’s [...]

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Comics Works: Keeping Two

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comic book, comics, Jordan Crane, Keeping Two, Uptight, What Things Do on March 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »

For the last couple years, Jordan Crane has been rolling out his story ‘Keeping Two’ at art comics clearing house What Things Do. (‘Keeping Two’ has also been partially serialized in Crane’s semi-regular floppy series Uptight, previous editions of which are online too.) Crane’s story, a windstorm of deaths real, imagined, and figurative, is unsettling [...]

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Daybreak, Brian Ralph (Drawn & Quarterly, 2011)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brian Ralph, comics, Daybreak, Drawn & Quarterly, graphic novels, review on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Republished late last year as a single-volume graphic novel, Daybreak was originally released in three parts between ’06 and ’08, and, in my mind, stands as one of the quintessential graphic (or “comic”) works of the past decade. Brian Ralph, the author and illustrator, is also notable for his graphic novels, Cave-In (1999) and Climbing [...]

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Mortality and Flatulence: a Conversation with Luca Dipierro

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged animation, art, book trailers, comics, Das Ding, Dawn Raffel, drawing, German Illustration, Gustave Doré, Luca Dipierro, mortality, Rabelais on December 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »

I first saw Luca Dipierro’s work in an animation he’d made for a book of short stories by Dawn Raffel. It was a stop motion video based on a story in which a young woman and her father try to find their car in a parking lot one night in winter. The wind off the lake is [...]

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Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 8

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 300, Batman, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Bill Sienkiewicz, Christopher Brayshaw, comics, Comics Code Authority, Daredevil, Daredevil: Born Again, Dark Horse Comics, Dave Gibbons, David Mazzucchelli, DC Comics, Elektra, Elektra Lives Again, Elektra: Assassin, Epic Comics, Frank Miller, Gary Groth, Geoff Darrow, Hard Boiled, John Romita Jr., Kim Thompson, Marvel Comcs, Mike Richardson, Sin City, The Comics Journal, The Dark Knight Returns, The Matrix, Wachowski Brothers, will eisner on August 22, 2011 | 13 Comments »

Already in this set of posts we’ve looked at Frank Miller’s career before The Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1 and 2), and performed close readings of that series’ respective four chapters (Parts 3, 4, 5, and 6). And the last time around, in Part 7, we examined the character of Batman both before and after [...]

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Mel Gibson’s Hamlet, all films Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth, Joseph Mankiewicz, Thor, and superhero movies (every one)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, A Simple Plan, All About Eve, Ang Lee, Anthony Hopkins, Asgard, Batman Returns, Beta Ray Bill, Brian Blessed, calypso, Carmelo Bene, CGI, Chris Hemsworth, claustric, comics, Darkman, David Lynch, détournement, Dead Again, Diabolik, Eric the Viking, Frank Langella, Galactus, Geneviève Bujold, George Lucas, greenscreen, Grigori Kozintsev, Hamlet, Harold Pinter, Henry V, Hulk, Ichi the Killer, J.J. Abrams, Jack Kirby, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Tourneur, Jane Campion, Jeremy M. Davies, John Gardner, John Milius, Joseph Mankiewicz, Kenneth Branagh, Kirby dots, Krull, Kuleshov Effect, Last Life in the Universe, Laurel Canyon, Lawrence of Arabia, Loki, Love Me Tonight, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Masters of the Universe, Mel Gibson, motion capture, Myrna Loy, Night of the Hunter, Norse mythology, Odin, On Moral Fiction, One Hamlet Less, Paul Verhoeven, Peter Jackson, Richard Kelly, Robert MItchum, Roger Ebert, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, Sam Raimi, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Senses of Cinema, Shakespeare, Showgirls, Sleuth, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, superheroes, Superman II, Superman the Movie, Tadanobu Asano, Tales of Asgard, The Avengers, The Bad Sleep Well, The Box, The Lord of the Rings, The Mighty Thor, The Phantom Menace, The Portrait of a Lady, Thor, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Stoppard, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Wilkes-Barre, Willow on May 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »

[You want to read the earlier installments, and we want to help you: Part 1, Part 2] [Drumming our fingers on the tabletop, humming along to Debbie Gibson, we contemplated just walking out on our waitress, when Jeremy remembered a Payday he had in his pocket. Passing it back and forth, we resumed our conversation.] [...]

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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baroque, Beat Happening, Beetlejuice, Belle Epoque, chamber pop, comics, Crash Test Dummies, David Lynch, Death of Superman, Edward Gorey, grunge, High School Musical, Joan Osborne, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Peter Greenaway, punk, Ranz des Vaches, Romanticism, Smashing Pumpkins, Stan Brakhage, superheroes, Television Personalities, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Elephant Man, The Magnetic Fields, The Softies, The Vaselines, Tim Burton, Twee, Twee as Fuck on February 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if I’ve missed any; I’m sure there are more.) Such videos became especially pronounced in the 2000s, especially between 2005 and 2007. [...]

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Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 300, A Contract with God, Batman, Chris Claremont, comics, cyberpunk, Daredevil, DC, Elektra, First Comics, Frank Miller, Gold Key, Goseki Kojima, graphic novels, Harvey Kurtzman, Jenette Kahn, Kazuo Koike, Lone Wolf and Cub, Lynn Varley, manga, Marvel Comics, Robert Crumb, Robert Rodriguez, Ronalds Printing, Ronin, Sin City, The Comics Journal, The Dark Knight Returns, The Spirit, Uncanny X-Men, will eisner, Wolverine, Zack Snyder on January 23, 2010 | 21 Comments »

Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 These days, Frank Miller is arguably best-known as a filmmaker. He co-directed Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of his long-running comic Sin City (1991–present), which he followed with his own peculiar 2008 adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘comics’

“I think happiness is overrated.”

Comics Works: Kramer’s Ergot 8

Comics Works: Keeping Two

Daybreak, Brian Ralph (Drawn & Quarterly, 2011)

Mortality and Flatulence: a Conversation with Luca Dipierro

Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 8

A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Mel Gibson’s Hamlet, all films Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth, Joseph Mankiewicz, Thor, and superhero movies (every one)

Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 1

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