The Isolation of Millennial Life: Ancco’s Nineteen
Nineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
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Posts Tagged: Drawn and Quarterly
Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet
In 1999 I was five. I was really just discovering comics for the first time—mostly by reading Spiderman.
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A weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Fresh Comics #12: Rolling Blackouts
Some books take such a mammoth effort to produce that it’s hard to want to be critical of them. Rolling Blackouts is one of those books. The nearly 300 pages of delicately crafted, watercolored panels make evident that Sarah Glidden is a workhorse of a talent. The dialogue—which is mostly transcribed from conversations—is incredibly natural and nuanced; […]
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Fresh Comics #10: Hot Dog Taste Test
When I started reading this book, I hated it. I thought, this is what happens when an illustrator takes a shot at storytelling. It’s just one drawing after another until you hit the requisite 175 or so pages that equals “book.” I get even grouchier imagining that books like these are dreamed up as a way to […]
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Over at NPR, Glen Weldon looks at a new anthology of Drawn and Quarterly that collects the Canadian comic publisher’s first 25 years.
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Gabrielle Bell and Jonathan W. Gray
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights at 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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Spotlight: Adrian Tomine
Like most things I liked when I was sixteen, I first got into Adrian Tomine’s comics because of my older sister, who let me borrow her early issues of Optic Nerve. The series began as a set of self-published mini-comics, Xeroxed and distributed by Tomine when as a teenager in Sacramento. By the late 90s, though […]
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Spotlight: An Interview with Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld talks about art, publishing, the balance between commissions and passion projects, and his upcoming book, Goliath.
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