The Rumpus.net » comic books http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Shopping For Comic Books With Junot Díaz http://therumpus.net/2012/09/shopping-for-comic-books-with-junot-diaz/ http://therumpus.net/2012/09/shopping-for-comic-books-with-junot-diaz/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:30:42 +0000 Jack Taylor http://therumpus.net/?p=105804 Vol. 1 Brooklyn documents author Junot Díaz’s comic book hunt through New York’s St. Mark’s Comics.

The video allows Díaz to explain the foundational effect comic books had on him, and others of his generation – such as the work of Los Bros.

]]> Vol. 1 Brooklyn documents author Junot Díaz’s comic book hunt through New York’s St. Mark’s Comics.

The video allows Díaz to explain the foundational effect comic books had on him, and others of his generation – such as the work of Los Bros. Hernandez, who gave an adolescent Díaz his first exposure to realistic artistic representation of life as a Latino.

Díaz recently published a novel, This Is How You Lose Her. You can read Devan Schwartz’s Rumpus review here, and catch up on previous Rumpus coverage of Díaz here.

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Literally the best thing NPR has ever been responsible for (and that includes every episode of Car Talk): dinosaurs vs snakes!

Neatorama ponders one of the less talked about casualties of e-book business.

]]> Wednesdays can be hard, so its either this or reading the GG Allin Wikipedia page in its entirety.

Literally the best thing NPR has ever been responsible for (and that includes every episode of Car Talk): dinosaurs vs snakes!

Neatorama ponders one of the less talked about casualties of e-book business.

Sometimes I really like living in a world where people use phrases like “ultra-pop architecture.”

A little mid-century french magazine cover graphic design porn for you. (via A Journey Round My Skull.)

You know what else makes me happy? Gorilla comics. (via GerryCanavan.)

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2010/03/morning-coffee-301/feed/ 0 Lying in the Gutters http://therumpus.net/2009/03/lying-in-the-gutters/ http://therumpus.net/2009/03/lying-in-the-gutters/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:00:38 +0000 Jono http://therumpus.net/?p=12231 Comic-book gossip column Lying in the Gutters, hosted at Comic Book Resources, is one of the things that makes the subculture of comics so fascinating and exciting. Unlike most comics journalists, Rich Johnston has the chops, the résumé, and the connections to do much more glamorous, well-paying work— and has, on several occasions.

]]> Comic-book gossip column Lying in the Gutters, hosted at Comic Book Resources, is one of the things that makes the subculture of comics so fascinating and exciting. Unlike most comics journalists, Rich Johnston has the chops, the résumé, and the connections to do much more glamorous, well-paying work— and has, on several occasions. But he chooses to take a second job and use his writing to focus on the things he loves most: comic books.

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]]> thor003Think you know the origin of Superman? Think again. Comic Book Legends Revealed weaves the kinds of stories you didn’t know you cared about. CBLR is often for the hardcore fan; if you’re not in your local comic shop every Wednesday, you probably don’t care why Jack Kirby’s Ultraverse titles failed, or that Vince Colletta once forgot to draw a character’s head in an issue of Thor. But Brian Cronin tells fascinating tales of the strangest publishing industry of all that win over even the most detached of readers.

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