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By Grant Morrison Spiegel & Grau 2011 Grant Morrison is a decisive subject in comics. Many love his work. Many love to hate his work. Many just don’t know what to think of him. What Morrison delivers with Supergods is a unique text about comics. It is part history, part deconstructionist analysis, part personal memoir, […]
By Tom Roberts and Jim Siergey Iconografix 1993 I was in a comic shop in a small town outside of Madison, Wisconsin, digging through the back issue bin when this caught my eye. It cost me a whole 50 cents. Culture Vultures is a black and white comic published in the comics high tide year […]
Written by Alan Moore. Illustrated by Jacen Burrows. Avatar Press, 2010. This book is several things. It is a kinky H.P. Lovecraft worshiping Cthulhu Mythos pulp story, with endless name checks. It is a raw, meaty slab of new Alan Moore story. It is a meta-narrative that discusses the possibilities of linguistic based psychedelic experience. It is some high concept, dark […]
Written by Grant Morrison. Art by Sean Murphy. DC Comics/Vertigo, 2011. Grant Morrison is a decisive writer in the comics form. Many people do not like his more experimental works, especially when the narratives get characteristically dense or abstract. Final Crisis anyone? Many people don’t enjoy when he incorporates more esoteric ideas like chaos magic, ceremonial magic, […]
Written and drawn by Reinhard Kleist. Abrams ComicArts, 2009. This book is part graphic biography and part lyrical interpretation. There were two major pieces of media that I enjoyed that had a strong impact on how I experienced this book. One was the 2006 film Walk The Line. The other was The Man In Black: […]
Created, written and drawn by James Stokoe. Image Comics, 2010. I can think of few books that match Orc Stain in the sheer level of raw creativity, fun, perversity, and originality. Stokoe has embarked on a program of world building worthy of an off-duty cultural anthropologist competing in a science fiction/fantasy pitch contest where the ideas are […]
Written by Neil Gaiman Art by Dave McKean Dark Horse Comics, 2007 (New Edition) Originally serialized in a magazine called The Face (United Kingdom) and collected into a single volume in 1992, this book represents some early usage of digital manipulation, photographic collage and highly expressionistic Dave McKean artwork. Dave McKean has an ability to […]
Written and drawn by Brian Fies. Abrams Comic Arts, 2009. Growing up in Kansas we took several school field trips to the Kansas Cosmosphere, a science museum devoted to space exploration. The exhibits devoted to liquid rockets, Robert Goddard, the Space Race and the lunar landing were extremely fascinating. Brian Fies shares some of that […]
Written and drawn by Kagen McLeod Top Shelf Productions, 2011. The buzz around this book has been damn strong. When books have been praised as highly as Infinite Kung Fu it can be difficult to not be disappointed by the actual reading experience when the enthusiasm fails to take hold of you. Kagen McLeod deserves […]
Writer: Alan Moore, Penciller: Zander Cannon, Inker: Andrew Cannon America’s Best Comics, 2004. This trade paperback collects issues #1-#5 of the miniseries Smax, which was spun out of the Alan Moore created Top 10 series. The story follows the character of Jeff from the Top 10 police force, who returns to his home world/dimension to attend […]
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