Fantagraphics
Flippin’ through Previews – May 2011
It’s a bit later than usual, but I hope you’ll forgive me – I’ve been busy. But now it’s time to check out the latest issue of Previews!
What I bought – 20 April 2011
For it is the greatest truth of our age: information is not knowledge. (Caleb Carr, from Killing Time)
Flippin’ through Previews – April 2011
It’s getting on to summertime, which means … more and more comics! That’s always odd to me – it’s not like movies, where the kids are out of school. If you buy comics, you buy them all year, right? Anyway, Previews has what you’re looking for!
What I bought – 23 March 2011
“Fuck what is written,” Landsman says. “You know what?” All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He’s tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption. “I don’t care what is written. I don’t care what [...]
She Has No Head! – Ladies Comics Project: Phase II, Part Three
Welcome to Part Three of The Ladies Comics Project Phase II in which a handful of my colleagues, family, and friends – both new and old – and both those familiar with comics and not – read and reviewed a graphic novel or trade from my own personal library. For more details about this project [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – January 2011
It’s time once again to dream of better days in the future … which is what Previews always promises us, yet often fails to deliver!!!!
What I bought – 15 December 2010
“You see,” Lardner said at the long bar of the Artist and Writers Restaurant, “Duke thought if his dream came true he would be a different person. He’s not unhappy about the dream. He’s unhappy that he is still the same man. Happens to a lot of us. We get somewhere we wanted and find [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – December 2010
Be thankful that we have so many excellent comics in Previews! Don’t be afraid!
Flippin’ through Previews – October 2010
It’s Previews #265, featuring the most shocking all-new Wolverine ongoing EVER! Would Marvel lie to you?
A review a day: Temperance
I suppose I should have heard of Cathy Malkasian before reading this book, but we can’t all be hip, groovy comics readers! So now I’ve rectified that, and I must write about her latest comic!
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!
What I bought – 16 June 2010
Let us not be deluded by forms of government. The word may be republic in France, constitutional monarchy in Prussia, absolute monarchy in Austria, but the thing is the same. Wherever there is a vast standing army, the government is the government of the sword. (Benjamin D’Israeli, 1852)
A review a day: The Search for Smilin’ Ed
While I like this book, I have to ask a problematic question about it. Look below to find out what it is! And there’s some NSFW stuff below the jump as well. Just so you know.
Flippin’ through Previews – June 2010
You know, I always thought Superman needed a Bill Belichick hoodie. Thanks to Previews #261, I no longer have to wonder what that looks like!
What I bought – 26 May 2010
“That’s why opera is important, Baron. Because it’s realer than any play! A dramatic poet would have to put all those thoughts down one after another to represent this second of time. The composer can put them all down at once – and still make us hear each one of them. Astonishing device: a Vocal [...]
