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Saturday, December 31, 2005
The Real Sexiest Man in Comics For 2005
Others may have their opinions and that's fine but let us not ignore the obvious.
Have a Happy New Year!
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Friday, December 30, 2005
Best of 2005 post
A lot of great work came out this year. I will remember 2005 as a time I got really excited about comics. There were so many great graphic novels that I only had to go as far as my student bookstore to get and great comics that made walking into the local comics hut every Wednesday an event to look forward to.
As for the best of the year I found it a battle between David B.'s Epileptic and Charles Burns's Black Hole. Both are some of the greatest books I've ever read. The subjects and themes are so fasicanting (I found myself bookmarking both books with a piece of scrap paper that I used to work out all my thoughts on the respective books) and both are beautiful to look at. I went with Black Hole becuase when I read Burns's art I feel the same way I do as when I read a comic by Jamie Hernandez or Alex Toth. I think to myself "this person was born to do comics." Those thick lines, expressive faces, the use of black-and-white and lighting are all just beautiful.
Not only did I read two of the most remarkable books I'll ever read in my life, I read one of those single issues that confirmed for me the power the comics medium has. Kevin Huizenga's Or Else #2 was a knock-out. I read it three times in two days and Huizenga's mastery of telling stories in comics, from the most abstract to the most concrete, always astounds.
Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly's WE3, the last issue and collected edition came out this year, was the best work I had read by both artists and I've read almost everything Morrison has written. That great optimism for life he has shone through a book that got pretty grim at times. It was also a real joy to see an already talented artist like Quietly evolve so dramitaclly with the techniques used in the book. They weren't just flashy, they helped make a great story greater.
Reading comics wasn't just exciting, reading about comics was, too. One of comics' greatest publishers got a blog. Mark Fossen and Jim Roeg arrive at roughly the same time and both prove to be real smart people talking smart about comics. David Campbell is who I want to be when I grow up. He's fucking Airwolf!
This year has left me so positive comics that I've got big hopes for 2006. I hope people will capitalize on the good that was done and we'll see better works and better fandom. How can I not be optimistic: Epileptic is my number two choice for best of the year!
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Ever Meta blogger that doesn't like writing about him/herself?
If blogging about blogging is a sin, how about blogging about not blogging?
This next year will be busy one for me. I've got my job at Publishers Weekly Comics Week, the occasional piece for The Comics Journal and in February I'm starting an internship at McSweeney's. That's not to mention all the other freelance work I might get in my quest to be known as Ian Brill: Tough as Nails Boy Reporter. Oh, and I'm going to school.
When I started this blog I was going to a city college fifteen minutes from my house, I lived under my Mom's roof and I didn't have a job. I suppose having a blog dedicated to comics made me feel like less of a loser. Now the real world has seeped in and it's telling me that blogging is going to have to take a back seat as I try to make my way in the world.
But I ain't quitting. I'm just letting you know that 2006 might see two or three substantial posts from me a month, if that. I'm going to try to get more reviews in because I love doing those but there might be some industry comment pieces as well. I think the mindset for the New Year will be "Quality over Quantity."
I got the idea from reading The Low Road and Ringwood. Ed, John and Ken don't post as much as The Mike of Steel (who got me in to this whole magilla and whose daily posting regimen has always been an inspiration) but when they do come out of their shells it's always worth it. Hopefully readers will think the same of me.
One thing non-blogging has taught me is that sometimes it's great to just be a reader and not feel like I have to come up with content to match anybody else. When a topic floats itself around the blogosphere (the situation with Speakeasy is a recent example) there's pressure to post something on the topic to feel relevant. But usually I'll just end up reading Chris Butcher or Tom Spurgeon and think to myself "yep, that sounds about right." Once they've opined on a subject why the Hell would anyone want to hear the ramblings of a shrimp like me? Most of the time I'd rather learn something from writers that are way smarter than me as opposed to just have myself shoot my electronic mouth off here.
But I still like shooting my mouth off. There's a sense of freedom that comes to blogging that I like and I that I think improves me as a writer. Going back to that dreaded real world, an active blog is a way to get your name out to potential employers and people it's important to make connections with. That's one of the reasons I created a Greatest Hits section to the sidebar, so people can check on the best of my writing whenever they check this page out.
So expect some more of that Brill Building goodness in 2006. Just don't feel there's a need to check in everyday.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
A Spidey Christmas
Happy Holidays to all of you. I'll be back in 2006 with actual content for all you good kids.
If you're wondering how Spider-Man actual teams up with the rather lethargic Watcher than I suggest you track down this issue. It's one of those easy-to-enjoy '80s Spider-Man stories, this time written by J.M. DeMatteis.
Hey, guess what! Chris Sims went over this book on his blog! Read it!
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Can't wait until next year for the meaty stuff? Then check out this interview I did with Matt Fraction about his new Image book in the Fell-format, Casanova.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Back to the "Trenches"
I don't know how much blogging I'll be doing until the next year (although there will be lots of good stuff in 2006 I promise!) but for right now keep your eyes on Josh Richardson. Not only is he comics's toughest letterer he's also a great guy to boot. Read him and you'll be a better person for it!
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Friday, December 16, 2005
See it! Hear it!
In these days of variant covers, "special editions" and other gimmicks it seems Marvel and DC will do anything so superhero junkies can keep feeding their jones with the latest and greatest "events." Yet I see a gimmick that has not been used or at least not in any grand gesture to go along with these "universe shattering" books.
You know those greeting cards that you open and suddenly "Jingle Belle Rock" starts being played out of tiny little speakers? Why not do that with comics? Marvel just gave us the great reason why.
A young Marvel Zombie picks up the first issue of Civil War, the latest and sure-to-be greatest roadshow comic. Now, this isn't any issue of Civil War. This is the special "Axl" variant.
The kid opens up the book and he hears the voice of Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke speak to him: "What we've got here is... failure to communicate." Oh no Brother Strother, Marvel and its many fans are communicating just fine.
Then the sweet acoustic guitars start ringing and that sinister electric lead sounds. Guns n' Roses's "Civil War" has started, the perfect soundtrack to this reading experience. Axl supplies a sly commentary:
My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars
What better way to get fans excited about the latest happenings in the Marvel Universe than that!? Marvel, if you're listening, I suggest you secure the rights of this piece of rockin' agit-prop right now and give Marvel fans what they want, the long-awaited combination of Mark Millar's writing and Slash's guitar palying!
"What's so civil about war, anyway?"
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Hey, do you like autobio comics? Do you like interviews? Of course you do! Go read this interview I did with Jeffery Brown there at CBG.
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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Seven Soldiers: The Half-Way Point
“This time around, I’m going to leave metaphors in my drawer at home. Many readers tend to overthink my work when I give them too much theory…”
-Grant Morrison
"If you choose to buy only Klarion: the Witch Boy, say or The Manhattan Guardian you'll still get a complete and satisfying four-issue mini-series which sets up the characters and establishes them for future adventures," said Morrison.”
-Grant Morrison
If I’m not going to believe one quote I might as well not believe the other.
When I went over the Seven Soldiers project in its beginning I was starting to worry if the project was not going to live up its potential. Already the promise of self-contained issues was broken but I’ve gotten pass that. What has changed my mind and given me a new appreciation on this project has been reading each mini-series in its entirety. It was reading all four issues of Shining Knight in one sitting that I found the storytelling to be a lot better but also all these themes running through the book and in the entire series. It’s made me think that perhaps Morrison will be able to successfully reach up to his ambition.
In the second issue of Klarion a girl in the subway dismissed the helmet of The Manhattan Guardian, who flew right by in his battle with subway pirates. Klarion tells her that if you turn the helmet upside down it could be a pot. “It depends on how you look at it,” is the way Klarion explains it. That idea of transformation and reinvention is the heart of this series. The book starts off with taking forgotten characters and puts them through a trial that will make them see what kind of heroes they can be. Jog, whose examination of the Seven Soldiers series is the best you’ll find anywhere, has noted that all the heroes go through the same path of self-doubt and then embracement of their heroism (the best example of this would be Zatanna, mainly because all four issues are fairly self-contained and you can really see the four stages Morrison puts his heroes through). It’s the classic hero myth and it actually seems a little too Joseph Campbell-ish or even Manichaeistic for the man who brought us Invisibles. Then I started noticing that Morrison layers his book with many meditations on the idea of transformation and rebirth. These are still superhero books that take place in the DC Universe so there is that Good (Seven Sodleirs) versus Evil (Sheeda) mentality running through it but there are also more complex notions underneath the surface.
As Jog pointed out, none of the Seven Soldiers fit the archetype of the white, male superhero with the flowing cape and wide chest. Going back to the proto-Soldiers in Seven Soldiers #0 the only character that could perhaps fit that role is Spyder but he was a bit of a creep. There are women like Sir Justin (in disguise as a male) and Zatanna as well as black superheroes like The Manhattan Guardian and Shilo Norman as Mr. Miracle. Then there are the freaky guys like Klarion and Frankenstein (whose original Mary Shelly story might be that of the ultimate “rebirth” character). They are all at least one removed from the grand superhero tradition of the DC Universe but Morrison takes that “under the radar” status as a reason to give these characters a new sense of mission and dignity. Guardian gets the most out of the working-class hero story and Bulleteer explores ordinary people who want to be superheroes. The most popular heroes are Zatanna and Mr. Miracle, one being a former JLA member, the other being the successor to a former JLA member and both are famous as entertainers as well as superheroes. They are unhappy with their status as “name” superheroes, Shilo Norman specifically. Morrison starts every soldiers’ book off with the protagonist unhappy with their place on the superhero totem pole and instead of moving them open or down in stature, Morrison gives them a reason to believe in themselves regardless of their fame or notoriety. The rebirth is not in giving the hero new powers or a new costume, it’s in the way they see themselves in their surroundings. As Big Ed says in Guardian “We’re telling stories about human dignity, Jake. Stories of how human beings make culture and meaning for ourselves, even down in the garbage.”
The opposite of rebirth is stunted growth and that also gets consideration in the books. Marc Singer noted how Big Ed himself is “a perfect hypostasis for superhero comics: aged and matured but still eternally youthful (or, depending on how you want to look at it, developmentally arrested).” Jog (hey, I really like his take on things) saw the Newsboy Army in Guardian #4, truly the best issue of the project since Seven Soldiers #0, as the embodiments of the innocence of Golden Age superheroes growing up and getting darker, as superhero stories are known to do. I feel that Morrison here is justifying his interest in rejuvenating these characters by pointing out what happens when superhero stories become stale: they cannibalize themselves into irrelevance. Another example is the use of Grundys in Klarion’s world. The dead die but instead of resting in peace they are resurrected to an afterlife of forced labor. It is a bastardized transformation of a decadent society. Compare that to how many superhero characters die and then come back to once again to star in stories not so different from the ones that were written for them decades ago.
The idea of entire cultures dying and then new cultures arising from the ashes is also apparent in Seven Soldiers. In Shining Knight Sir Justin is haunted by the idea that since she left her world it fell to Sheeda and now this modern world is threatened, too. In the third issue of that book Sheeda mentions “There are people who believe that the rise and fall of great civilizations is a cyclical occurrence. Our world is over six billion years old, after all. Our own civilization dates back a mere 6,000 years.” Every civilization has gathered their Seven Soldiers to fight Sheeda but lost. It leads Mr. Miracle to ponder “What if I live in a world where evil came out tops?” Is this the natural cycle or is Morrison imaging a way for one culture to not just rise and fall like all the rest but keep rising to newer and better heights? I thought it was interesting to think of cultures dying and being reborn on the cosmic scale while we also have examples of it happening on a much more human level. Zatanna takes over as a superhero and performer for her father Zatara. Shilo Norman takes over the Mr. Miracle mantle from Scott Free who himself took it over from Thaddeus Brown. These are examples of the same thing just happening on different levels of existence.
This is just one part of Seven Soldiers but I feel it is the most important part. I would also like to go over the Jack Kirby influence on these books one day (three of the books are based on Kirby characters, four if you count the Infinite Crisis book OMAC Project and I’m pretty sure IC and Seven Soldiers will meet up somewhere). I didn’t even talk about the wonderful artists who drew these books but if you’re reading them than you already know how good Cameron Stewart, Ryan Sook and others are.
Special thanks to Jog (there he is again!) for helping me with this essay. It was good to be back writing something substantial on the blog. Be ready for more.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Vote early, vote often
Tomorrow's a free day for me so I'm going to try to post that big-ass Seven Soldiers post I've wanted to post since a few months ago. For now though I'll tell you to go vote in the Comic Bloggers Poll 2005 that Chris from Crisis/Boring Change has put together. It's like the Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll but with less nerds.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Plug Time
It's a busy day for me so I'll just point you in the direction of an interview I did with Warren Ellis about his new book Fell. The book's cheaper than most comics today and also contains more story content than most comics today. It's a neat concept that gets examined in the interview.
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Monday, December 12, 2005
The Kobayashi Maru
Finals are all but finished now and the experience has left me with a thought I will share with you good folks.
With the Internet, cell phones and other portable electronics being omnipresence on campus those in charge of giving out exams seem to need a degree in computer sciences just to be able to keep up with those taking the easy way out of passing a test. Last week a professor of mine complained about one student text messaging the questions on a test to his roommate who was searching Google and feeding the answers back to the student taking the test.
My question is this: in today's world wouldn't the ability to handle the latest technology for resourceful and unique problem-solving, "thinking outside the box" as it is often termed, be on of the better skills a person needs to get ahead in the world outside of college? Has the student my professor complained about shown himself to be much more attractive to potential employers than a student who spent his/her time studying and then has to rely on his/her memory for the answers?
I am reminded of a scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Kirstie Alley's character brings up Starfleet's unbeatable test The Kobayashi Maru. McCoy tells us Kirk is the only Starfleet cadet to beat the test. How? He hacked into the machine giving the test and reprogrammed it. Starfleet is apparently a cool enough place that Kirk got a commendation for original thinking. Is that how colleges should now treat students who use all available materials to make sure every question the answer is correct (instantaneous research is maybe a better term than "cheating")? I suppose there is the whole ethics thing but do today's employers really care about that over hiring a young face that has already mastered every device the 21st Century has to offer?
"I don't believe in the no-win scenario.”
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
Richard Pryor R.I.P.
"Life is not the ultimate test. The ultimate test is whether your ass will survive Death. Nobody we know has passed this test, least of all this sorry mother."
Richard Pryor was the greatest comedian of all time. He proved how powerful the art of stand-up coemdy could be by being such a masterful storyteller, even a self-conscious stroyteller as in the character "Mudbone." Pryor put hismelf through Hell with drugs and an interesting (to say the least!) romantic life but instead of denying it he just cracked his skull open and let us all see what his inside him. He turned his pain into brilliant comedy. For anyone who is a creative person and wants to communicate stories from yourself to others Richard Pryor is a true inspiration.
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Friday, December 09, 2005
"Homecoming"
Screenwriter Sam Hamm (Batman, Batman Returns) appeared at San Francisco State University for a screening of the film he wrote and Joe Dante (Gremlins, Twilight Zone Movie) directed for Showtime’s Masters of Horror series, “Homecoming.” The interview was conducted by SFSU screenwriting teacher Joseph McBride.
Before the film Hamm made sure the audience knew that this film was “an EC comics updated for the 21st Century” and “a scurrilous little agit-prop comedy.” Hamm and Dante were given two million dollars, ten days to shoot and complete creative control. They felt this short film would become “the movie too extreme for Showtime” and get rejected but instead the producers were fine with it and aired it when Showtime was having a free preview weekend for certain cable and satellite subscribers. It has since becoming a hot topic on political websites and blogs.
Based on the short story “Death and Sufferage” by Dale Bailey, the film features soldiers killed in an unnamed war coming back to life as zombies. They’re not here to eat brains, instead they won’t rest until they vote against the politicians who put them to war and had them die “for a lie” as one of the zombies say. A Republican spin-master is at the center of the film trying to fight the zombies not with fire or chainsaws but with defamation on cable news. The film spends most of its time spewing venom in the direction of high profile neo-conservatives personalities. It features the most twisted take on Ann Coulter since Howard Chaykin’s Challengers of the Unknown mini-series but the funniest moments go to Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager) as a Karl Rove clone who at first relishes at the idea of a soldiers that “takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”
Hamm said the film isn’t intended to change minds but is instead inspired by right-wing talk radio that makes evangelicals out of those with already sympathetic political persuasions. Hamm and Dante wanted to see something like that for liberals so they made a low-budget monster movie that doesn’t use subtext or is an allegory or about the current administration’s destructive foreign policy but is instead very upfront about its politics and its message. Hamm said they were going for a film that is “macabre, funny and political” and they succeeded with all three.
Hamm took questions from the audiences. He talked about how he’s trying to get Anchor Bay, who have the DVD rights to the Masters of Horror series, to speed up their release of this DVD set so more people can see this episode.
I asked about writing the screenplay to Watchmen and someone else asked a follow up on it (the book is being taught on campus). Hamm said that he wrote it for Joel Silver and then let it go as Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown did their draft. He said the hardest part about writing the script was that whenever he consulted the comics he would find a new theme or visual motif running through the film. Eventually he had to lock the comics in a drawer so he could finish the script. He heard Richard Gere wanted to play Dr. Manhattan and David Bowie wanted to play Rorschach but as you can see the film never happened. Hamm does think it’ll be made into a film someday.
When asked if M.A.N.T.I.S. is coming out on DVD Hamm said he didn’t know. He created the show with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert but was really screwed by FOX when the show was aired. The show was conceived as a “Blaxploitation superhero” but when pilot got picked up they were told the show needed to be “more white.” Most of the supporting cast was fired for white actors to step in and Hamm, Tapert and Raimi left the show. Hamm claims to not have seen most of the episodes of M.A.N.T.I.S.
Hamm said he and Dante are working on the second season of Masters of Horror where they are going to try and top themselves but don’t feel they’ll go the agit-prop route again. “Homecoming” airs three times this weekend, find out what times here.
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Thursday, December 08, 2005
I BLAME IAN BRILL
Now that the dust seems to have settled from Larry Young's latest column I suppose I can now unleash the awful truth into this world.
It was all my fault.
Please, let me explain. Last week Larry and I got on the subject of reviewers and he asked me why do so many of those who review comics go for the style of "It was kinda good, except for this one part I didn't like," to use Larry's example. He felt that the commitment to being so even-handed in reviews left many of them lacking a good direct premise and became a chore to read. Larry brought up his Nixon analogy then, too, although I think that’s because he loves to remind me of how young I am.
Being the mess of nerves I am I started to think of all the bad reviews I’ve written that committed this sin, and boy are there plenty. With the exception of my essay on Sleeper and the interviews I’ve done for the site, everything I wrote for Comic Book Galaxy was an example of this type of limpness. Alan, Chris Hunter and Chris Allen deserved a lot better because I think they run a great site and I wish could give them my best all the time. Instead, and I won’t give you any excuses why, I just went on auto-pilot and gave the very standard and very boring “this was good/this was not-so-good” review for a lot of books. The talents behind those comics deserved better as well, no matter how I felt about their books.
Larry was trying to get me to, as he put it, “grow some stones” as a critic. He wanted to see me, as well as others who examine comics, to be bold and take a clear stance on a comic when we review it. I agreed with him that my writing needed more focus and to be clearer. I feel that’s apparent in my best reviews and is what I should be striving to hit every time. Larry was “trying to light a fire under my ass” and I appreciate that he cared as much to do so.
Out talk inspired his column on Friday about comics criticism and that led to many weighing in on the subject. After reading the column I told Larry that it would have been better if he gave examples of the type of criticism he didn’t like and named some names as to make a stronger case. I told him it would have been totally cool if he linked to me as an example, I’ve certainly written enough bad criticism as good (probably more). Larry said he didn’t want to do that because he’d get a ton of e-mails accusing him of being this “King of Independent Comics” coming down on some poor, defenseless blogger. I figure he got enough e-mails already from the column so might have well as held me up as an example but I respect his decision.
So if you don’t like shitstorms going on down the WebComicBlogoNet than you can point the finger at me for this one and send me all the nasty e-mails you like. I liked some of the discussion that came out of this, especially the ones found on The Engine. I also appreciated seeing people like Mark Fossen and Alex Cox say nice things about me, not even knowing that I was the catalyst for all this clustfuckery. In my interview with Graeme McMillan Graeme defined an internet “celebrity” in terms of the Comic Blogopshere (and the word “celebrity” certainly needs quotes marks around it in this case) as someone who is brought up when they aren’t even in the debate yet. Does this make me one of those ““““celebrities””””?
To quote Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate: “Oh God, I hope not.”
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Bed, Bath & Certainly Beyond
A warning: If you are Josh Motherfucking Richardson you probably shouldn't read this post as it goes over a subject that is hardly your favorite.
Reading the Livejournal community Scans Daily you'll soon find that some comic fans never run out of combinations of their favorite characters to "slash." That is to take two characters, most often two males, and infer an erotic relationship between the two of them. Batman and Robin's an obvious one but there are examples of Batman and Superman and Batman and Alfred that could certainly lead to some interesting fan fiction. When I covered Yaoi-Con 2005 I checked out a panel entitled "American Comics Slash" and found out that the X-Men were also pretty popular for slash fans, with Wolverine being a major favorite.
My questions is: why hasn't Johnny Storm/Ben Grimm slash taken off? Look at this people:
Both panels are from Fantastic Four #65. You'd think the constant bickering plus being cooped up in the same place for a long time (they're sharing a bed here folks) would equal some fangirl to declare "squee!" in a slash community. Sadly, the world is deprived of rock monster/flaming person slash.
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A techincal question: how do I get an RSS feed for all the blogs I like to read? With blo.gs being down I figured that I don't want to depend on the Comic Weblog Update Page, at least not for a while. I have a LJ friends list where I've put my own blog feed on, is it like that?
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Finals are still keeping me busy. After that the holidays will then keep me busy. But after God's birthday I should have some meaty posts, hopefully I'll give you some before then.
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Monday, December 05, 2005
Something Cool Monday 12-05-05
Here we have tow interviews, both great, on artists I find very talented and entertaining.
The first is a real in-depth, career-spanning interview with comedian Patton Oswalt. It's his story of dealing with crappy clubs, moving to different cities and the comedy scenes there as well as his thoughts on the art of comedy. I love the fact that he's a guy who loves stand-up so much that he says everything else he does is just to give him more time and money to do stand-up, whereas with a lot of comedians it's the other way around. I would have to say that my favorite part of the interview is the posting of this photo from the early '90s. I like how they look like a meaner version of the cast of The Ben Stiller Show.
Even though Oswalt gives a shout out to Dan Clowes there real comic book goodness is going to be found in this interview with Joe Casey by Tom Spurgeon. Casey's a real talent and the interview these two did in The Comics Journal was great stuff so it was nice to see a sequel.
From the interview:
I don't care if it dates me...I think the 70's comics were better on quite a few levels that have nothing to do with how far we've all advanced in our craft.
That I certainly agree with that! I like how Casey is keeping the spirit of those comics alive in Godland which is one of the best superhero comics you can read right now.
Read on, folks!
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Thursday, December 01, 2005
Do something good for once
Another quick post but this time it's not about something trivial (the title of this post is directed at me more than anything else).
As the hearings start on the trial of retailer Gordon Lee the CBLDF has eBay auctions set up so that you can help the cause. You can bid on a Hellblazer issue signed by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, Johnathan Luna Spider-Woman art, oringal art from Jamie Hernandez and much, much more.
That's right, you could get original art from one of the greatest living cartoonist, Jaime Hernandez and contribute to a good cuase. Why don't you do that?
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