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Cage Match #3: My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (2008)
[TIM: For those new to the concept of the Comics Comics Cage Match, it's basically a recurring feature that gives us a way to present no-holds-barred arguments about comics and comics-related issues on...
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The bridge is over.
Preface: I wrote this in my notebook after discovering last week that the conclusion to the major re-launch of the 1980s series Nexus had hit the stands. Steve Rude, one of the biggest “indie” comics...
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The Comics Journal 300 carries a conversation between Kevin Huizenga and Art Spiegelman. During the course of the interview, Kevin brings up the idea of a Midwester school of cartooning, something that...
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Jack Kirby Was the 20th Century & other notes
Foxhole #1 (1954) by Jack Kirby. More gleanings from my notebook: Herriman’s Missing Signature. Michael Tisserand has a question: “Does anyone know (or have any ideas why) George Herriman generally no...
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Interviews and Autodidacts Notebook
Gil Kane, an artist whose interviews are always worth reading.A notebook on comics interviews and autodidacts: Autodidacts. I often think William Blake is the prototype for many modern cartoonists....
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Seth and Chester Brown as Late-Born Nationalists
This might only be of interest to Canadians and a few Canuck-ophiles but here goes: Canadian nationalism ebbs and flows but the most recent high tide was from 1967, when Canada celebrated its...
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Class with Frank part 2
Yummy Fur #19 DOIN’ THE CHESTER Howzitgoin’ CC faithful!? Good? Good. This week we are studying the evolution of Chester Brown’s grid layouts in Yummy Fur issues 19, 20, and 21. Seriously. What? You...
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9-Panel Grids
IF 6 WAS 9 GibbonsLet’s look at 9-panel grids in North American comics. When I think of the 9-panel grid I invariably see Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man page layouts in my mind. Then I see Watchmen. Both...
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Paying For It
Chester Brown's Paying For It Normally I wouldn’t post out of turn but I had to share this, especially since I don’t think anyone else has posted it. If Amazon.com is to be trusted, this is the cover...
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Faith in Comics
I wanted to do a post on the connection between illuminated manuscripts and comics but then I got sidetracked a little bit. From what I understand illuminated manuscripts were made like modern...
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