Submitted for your approval: a web site that asks the question: What if The Twilight Zone was a series of one-page comics? Tim and Mulele discuss Observatory, by Laszlo Tamasfi and various artists.
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Critiquing Comics #096: “Wins and Losses”
We’re back! Tim and Mulele sit down for some pizza and a football-related comic with an emotional gut punch: Adam Pasion’s “Wins and Losses”.
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Critiquing Comics #095: “The Nowhere Man”
A man with a fatal illness decides to end it all before the illness does. He finds himself in an Alice-in-Wonderland-like scenario full of social commentary. Tim and Mulele critique Jonny Bloozit’s The Nowhere Man.
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Critiquing Comics #094: “Once Upon a Time in Morningside” and “PPPPMMHHSSSS”
Once Upon a Time in Morningside, by Sean Michael Wilson and Hanna Strömberg, is the latest book from Big Ugly Robot Press. The book shows how “OK” places become “great” in retrospect, based on the things you remember happening there years before, and also how looking back on those things can teach you something new.
At MoCCA, Tim picked up A.T. Pratt‘s Papa Pratt’s Popup Popout Miggy Mouse Horror House Super Secret Special Surprise and Miggy Mouse’s Sweets and Treats, two books with a great approach to constructing a book (see below), but how is the experience of reading them?
Tim and Mulele discuss.
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Critiquing Comics #093: “Trista and Holt”
Trista and Holt is Andrez Bergen’s noir adaptation of the centuries-old love story of Tristan and Isolde. It’s also put together with “deliberately cut-up/dada/found objects.” Tim and Mulele take a look at issue #1 to see how well one comic can juggle all these influences.
(Note: Bergen has also done a prose version of this story)
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Critiquing Comics #092: Boy Zero
A police detective sees a psychiatrist, because something is bothering him about the case he’s been working on. Something happened in the past among a group of kids. Murder? Well, we read a pretty good chunk of Charles Chester and Shiloh Penfield’s Boy Zero, and we don’t feel any closer to finding out. We discuss what went wrong for us.
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Critiquing Comics #091: Doomsday Burgers, Don’t Be a Dumbass, Four Fables
Tim and Mulele dig into three more of the comics that Tim brought back from MoCCA Fest:
- Johnny Dombrowski and Ian Higginbotham’s Doomsday Burgers
- Stephanie Rodriguez’s No Te Hagas La Pendeja (Don’t Be a Dumbass)
- Maelle Doliveux’s Four Fables
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Critiquing Comics #090: Here, After; Coco Soco; Apartment Hunt
Critiquing Comics returns with a look at three comics with connections to past DCP and CCP episodes:
- Here, After, by Kazimir Lee, interviewed at the Center for Cartoon Studies
- Coco Soco, by Tomomi Mooney, who is (we think!) married to another artist whose comic has been discussed on this show
- Apartment Hunt, by Mindy Indy, who we heard from at MoCCA
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Critiquing Comics #089: Beads
A string of beads, a birthmark, and a string of romances through history that end in various types of tragedies. Irene Strychalski‘s silent comic Beads presents this simple yet profound story in her stunning artwork. Tim and Mulele discuss.
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Critiquing Comics #088: Mushroom Madness
Michael Bangert, who sent us Viking Sky Kings some time back, has returned with a new comic, Mushroom Madness. He’s taken a comics writing class since his last outing; Tim and Mulele can see ways that it’s helped… and progress yet to be made.
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