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Art Attack: The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics
09/23/2009 by 9 Comments
TweetEdited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics is perhaps the most seminal historical comics anthology since A Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics, and a powerfully persuasive document arguing for a more linear, storytelling-based tradition of comics. It’s also full of comics by Harvey Kurtzman, Walt Kelly, Jules [...]
Amazon: Cartoonists aren’t authors
09/23/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Via the ACT-I-VATE blog, George O’Connor, artist on BALL-PEEN HAMMER, a recent GN from First Second, reveals a dispute with Amazon whereby they refused to list the book he had illustrated onhis author page, but also removed some books he had already put there. Recently, I had written to Amazon to have a series [...]
Feliz cumpleaños, Santo
09/23/2009 by Leave a Comment
TweetRodolfo Guzmán Huerta would have been 92 today. Viva El Santo!
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 9/23/09
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Tweet§ Shaenon K. Garrity does what they said couldn’t be done and offers A Crash Course in Boys’ Love , with a historical context. In America, “yaoi” has become a catchall term for any manga or anime that includes suggestive situations between male characters, including mainstream shojo (girls’) manga that would not be classified as [...]
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