Drawn & Quarterly
What I bought – 2 February 2011
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. (Don DeLillo, from White Noise)
She Has No Head! – Ladies Comics Project: Phase II, Part One
Even after spending the last year plus writing She Has No Head!, a column about women and comics, I continue to have a real interest in and curiosity about women and comics, and specifically why women do and don’t read comics and what they do and don’t respond to as readers when they do read. [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – November 2010
Where can you find comics? In Previews, of course! This month: Is it the worst idea ever on the cover of Previews? Could be …
Flippin’ through Previews – September 2010
If I were a flunkie at DC, I’d propose publishing FIFTY Bat-titles a month … and nothing else! Come on, DC – you can’t lose! In the meantime, we’ll have to peruse this month’s Previews for other, non-Batman-and-thus-far-inferior titles!
She Has No Head! – Spotlight: Rutu Modan
I don’t know how I missed out on Rutu Modan’s work for so long, but man am I glad I finally discovered her. Modan, an Eisner award-winning illustrator and writer worked as an editor for the Hebrew edition of MAD Magazine after graduating from the Bezarel Academy of Art & Design. She founded Actus Tragicus [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – July 2010
One thing really cracked me up about this month’s Previews … and then someone else pointed out how stupid it was before I could. Damn it!!!!!!
A review a day: Market Day
Who doesn’t love bleak, Eastern European, turn-of-the-twentieth-century comics? Commies, that’s who! Oh, wait – Commies probably love them!
Blue Moon Reviews — Black Blizzard
You might know the name Yoshihiro Tatsumi from its frequent appearance on lists of Eisner nominees, including this year’s candidates for the Eisner Hall of Fame. He didn’t start out penning autobiographical masterpieces like A Drifting Life, however. One of his earlier endeavors was Black Blizzard, a noir thriller in which two accused murderers—on the [...]
She Has No Head! – Spotlight: Gabrielle Bell
Apparently March is a month in which Gabrielle Bell bewitches the minds of writers, as my post today, a spotlight on Gabrielle Bell, is following up Brian’s “A Year Of Cool Comics – Day 73″ post of just yesterday. I considered pulling my post (and asked Brian if he’d prefer it) but he said I [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – March 2010
Yes, it’s that time of the month again for Previews! You know you want to!
Flippin’ through Previews – February 2010
The Marvel Universe has apparently never existed before … because it starts in Previews #257!
Flippin’ through Previews – January 2010
Smell it? It’s comics from the future! Aaaaahhhhh! They’re in Previews #256, to which we now turn our attention!
Flippin’ through Previews – November 2009
It’s time to delve into the latest issue of Previews, #254! Let’s rock!
Flippin’ through Previews – July 2009
What’s this? It’s the latest issue of Previews, issue #250! Yay!
