Wednesday, September 29, 2010

TCJ Entries For September

For those still following my articles through this blog, here are my TCJ reviews and other features for September:

Diario De Oaxaca, by Peter Kuper.

Drinking At The Movies, by Julia Wertz.

Set To Sea, by Drew Weing.

New comics from Colleen Frakes & Alex Kim.

Go For The Gold, a sketchbook from the Meathaus collective.

The comics anthology Nymphomomena.

New volumes of Bone and Amulet, by Jeff Smith and Kazu Kibuishi, respectively.

The fourth volume of Frank King's Walt & Skeezix.

The first three issues of Bob Oxman's minicomics series Smuttynose.

Parts one, two and three of a career-spanning interview with Steve Lafler.

The fourth and fifth issues of Morgan Pielli's Indestructible Universe Quarterly.

The Axe-Man of New Orleans, by Rick Geary.

How I Made It To Eighteen, by Tracy White.

El Vocho, by Steve Lafler.

A minicomics round-up featuring comics by Dina Kelberman, Kyle Baddeley and Desmond Reed.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

TCJ Entries For August

Here are my latest columns and reviews from The Comics Journal:

The Minicomics of Virginia Paine

Ganges #3, by Kevin Huizenga

Lightning Round: short reviews of comics by Greg Carter & Stephanie O'Donnell; Ibrahim Ineke; Kyle Baddeley; and Rob Jackson.

Nurse Nurse #6 and Troop 142 #4, by Katie Skelly & Mike Dawson, respectively.

The Living Cain, by Lydia Conklin

Revolver, by Matt Kindt

The first two issues of the Supertalk anthology

Wilson, by Daniel Clowes

Melvin Monster Volume 2, by John Stanley

Second Thoughts, by Niklas Asker

Elephant Man #1, by Greg Houston

These Things Happen #3 and #4, by Sam Carbaugh

An Evening at Chapel Hill Comics

Dance After Dark and Rapt Attention, by Laura Terry & Penina Gal, respectively.

The CCS Anthology Werewolf!!

The Complete Peanuts, 1977-1978, by Charles Schulz.

Diario De Oaxaca, by Peter Kuper.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

A Quick Plea For Poseur Ink

I received this message last night:

"Rachel Dukes from Poseur Ink here. I'm getting in touch with everyone who helped promote our books Side A and Side B to let them know that we've run into a family emergency and need to liquidate our stock of books in order to make room for a family member to move in with us. (And to pay off debts in case further emergencies arise.) If you wouldn't mind, we would be forever grateful if you could make a small blog post and let your readers know that the books are currently 50% off ($5 and $11, respectfully). There's still about 300 copies of each book left, so we have a ways to go; but we need to get these out of our apartment asap.

You can read more in our blog at: https://webmail.duke.edu/classic/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poseurink.com%2F%3Fp%3D391"

Please consider buying a volume. Here's my review of the Side B anthology.

Monday, August 2, 2010

TCJ (and other) Entries For July

Here's a list of reviews I did in the month of July:

Mome Volume 18.

Hate Annual 8, by Peter Bagge.

Rare Bits Comics Collective: Jen Vaughn, Sam Carbaugh & Jason Week.

The Pterodactyl Hunters In the Gilded City, by Brendan Leach.

Blammo #6 and Blindspot #1, by Joseph Remnant & Noah Van Sciver.

The free Dope Flounder anthology.

Two comics by L. Nichols.

An appreciation of Harvey Pekar.

Newave!, edited by Michael Dowers.

Tales Designed To Thrizzle #6, by Michael Kupperman.

Autobio comics by Ben "Snakepit" White, Jason Young and Robyn Jordan.

Werewolves of Montpellier, by Jason.

James Sturm's Market Day and mental illness.

Death Deals & Quiet Human Contact, by Eamon Espey and various, respectively.

Short takes on comics by Greg Farrell, Dina Kelberman, Sean Andress and volume 10 of Candy Or Medicine.

Tag Team #1, an anthology from various alumni of the Center for Cartoon Studies.

New comics from Jose-Luis Olivares and Joseph Lambert.

Eschew #2, by Robert Sergel.

Whirlwind Wonderland, by Rina Ayuyang.

Monday, July 5, 2010

TCJ (and other) Entries For June

Here's a rundown of links from my recent work for The Comics Journal and the Poopsheet Foundation:

Flesh and Bone, by Julia Grfrorer.

Minicomics from Dina Kelberman and Derik Badman.

Super Spy: The Lost Dossiers, by Matt Kindt.

Yasha Lizard #1 & #2, by Kristina Stipetic.

New comics from Ed Choy Moorman.

New comics from Tom Neely and Sam Henderson.

Dungeon Quest, by Joe Daly.

Undeleted Scenes, by Jeffrey Brown.

New comics from Melissa Mendes.

Smile, by Raina Telgemeier.

Minicomics by Maggie Morrill.

Minicomics from Jason Viola, Josh Latta and David Z Greene.

The Honduran Coup, by Dan Archer.

Minis from Jon Chad and Sophia Wiedeman.

Minis from Aaron Cockle and JT Yost.

Tranz, by William Cardini.

Reich #7, by Elijah Brubaker.

American, Eh? #1-4, by Heather Bryant.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

TCJ Posts For May

Here are links to articles published at the Comics Journal website in the month of May:

The new edition of Dylan Horrocks' classic Hicksville.

Blaise Larmee's Xeric-funded debut graphic novel Young Lions.

The second issue of the Shitbeams On The Loose anthology, edited by Rusty Jordan and Dave Nuss.

Various comics by Francesca Cassavetti.

The Louisa May Alcott edition of Graphic Classics.

The minicomics of Caitlin Cass.

A minicomics roundup featuring Jim Rugg, William Cardini & Jim Burggraf, and the CANDY OR MEDICINE crew.

Mineshaft #35, edited by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri.

The fourth issue of Matthew Thurber's 1-800-MICE.

Dungeon: Twilight Volume 3, by Lewis Trondheim & Joann Sfar.

Brooke Allen's A Home For Mister Easter.

Eric Liberge's On The Odd Hours.

Salad Days and The Natural World #3, by Minty Lewis and Damien Jay, respectively.

Julia Gfrorer's Flesh and Bone.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

TCJ (and other) Entries for April

Here's a rundown of links for articles I've written for the Comics Journal for the month of April, plus a couple of other things I wrote.

Three issues of Pat Lewis' Cragmore.

B.Kliban's 1975 classic Cat.

The Rob Jackson-edited anthology Gin Palace.

Jeremiah Piersol's one-man anthology The Rejection Section.

Gene Yang's new book Prime Baby.

The second issue of Robin Enrico's minicomic series Life of Vice.

My MoCCA Festival 2010 report.

The preview of Steve Bissette's upcoming 1963 project.

Four new minis from the great Sam Henderson.

The fifth issue of Sean Ford's series Only Skin.

The first volume of Liz Baillie's Freewheel.

The 12th issue of the Greg Means-edited anthology Papercutter.

The latest volume from the Complete Peanuts, covering 1975-1976.

The second volume of Margaruite Dabaie's The Hookah Girl.

The third issue of Mike Dawson's minicomic series Troop 142.

Sarah Becan's The Complete Ouija Interviews.