Monthly Archives: April 2012
Optic Nerve
Last fall, issue #12 of Optic Nerve came out. I’m a big Adrian Tomine fan, and I’m a little ashamed to say that I waited until yesterday to read the latest issue. I had just put it to the side, next … Continue reading
Without Feathers
I’ve just finished reading Shalom Auslander’s first novel, Hope: A Tragedy. I liked this book a lot, especially Auslander’s unique sense of humor, which is in many ways a no-holds-barred attempt to find humor regardless of any “sacred” context. The context, … Continue reading
Who Has the Authority?
Last week I began reading the series, The Authority. I had hadn’t read them before–in fact, outside of Sleeper, I have not really been familiar with the WildStorm Universe–but last fall as I was reading Grant Morrison’s Supergods, I saw that … Continue reading
Abandon All Hope
Last month I began Shalom Auslander’s new novel, Hope: A Tragedy. However, I put the book aside for a few weeks and then forgot what I had read. So this weekend I started the novel over, and I’m glad I … Continue reading
Seals of Approval
Amy Kiste Nyberg’s Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code, is the best resource out there on the topic of censorship in comics, especially its historical context during the 1940s and 1950s. Nyberg is a communications professor, and … Continue reading
The Main Events
Lately I’ve been trying to catch up with some of the major events that have occurred in the DC Universe. Back in the fall I read about all of the comics composing the Blackest Night event, and I had planned … Continue reading
Swarte Stories
Back in February Fantagraphics finally published the much-anticipated collection of comics from Joost Swarte, Is That All There Is? Swarte, a Dutch comics artist and graphic designer, and known for his ligne claire or clear line style of drawing (he even coined the term), has … Continue reading
Goodbye, Philip Roth
It’s been awhile since I last blogged, and this is primarily due to laziness. But in the interim, I have been reading quite a bit, and over the next several days I hope to catch up a bit with things. … Continue reading