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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions . Beasts! Book 2 Jacob Covey Fantagraphics You Are Forgiven Matt Leines Free News Projects Collections are one place where size definitely helps. First published in 2006 (and newly available in paperback), editor/curator Jacob Covey's handsomely appointed volume titled Beasts! seemed merely intriguing at the time,...
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions . It was the best of times, it was the...no, it was nowhere near the best of times, as the politically and socially turbulent pages of Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For attest. It was a fine year for comics, however, with brilliantly deranged past masters inspiring weird and crafty younger artists....
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions . "Achewood" Chris Onstad "Bodyworld" Dash Shaw "Templar, Arizona" Spike With the sad, sudden, and unannounced disappearance of Nicholas Gurewitch's "The Perry Bible Fellowship" website on December 9, Chris Onstad's " Achewood " immediately became the undisputed wazoo of webcomics. Beyond its weekly blast of surreal...
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions . Paping: The Teachers Edition John Mejias Sloth and Speak of the Devil Gilbert Hernandez Vertigo/Dark Horse John Mejias teaches art at a public school in the Bronx. He also self-publishes a downbeat triannual comic titled Paping , after his Puerto Rican father's nickname (pronounced "pah-PING"). Paping 's most recent...
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions . Theo Ellsworth's imaginary cities are densely populated with funny monsters, hybrid animals, Mazatec gods, visiting aliens, and other members of his seemingly infinite bestiary. And yet they're a little lonely, too, and their creator seems to want company. Perhaps that's why, over the course of Capacity -- which...
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions . Petey & Pussy John Kerschbaum Fantagraphics The Lagoon Lilli Carré Fantagraphics The two title characters of John Kerschbaum's latest book (Fantagraphics) - Petey, a hefty beagle, and Pussy, an easily annoyed feline - aren't exactly animals. Like some hideous update of mythology's Minotaur, each pet sports the head...
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions . Chris Ware "Acme Novelty Library 19" Drawn & Quarterly C.F. Powr Mastrs Vol. 2 PictureBox Bleak, yet brilliant. The party line on Chris Ware's ongoing Rusty Brown graphic novel is in no danger of wavering with its latest installment. Following an issue devoted to Ware's architecturally inspired "Building Stories,"...
