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| Topic Started: Apr 9 2010, 12:05 AM (12,772 Views) | |
| Funhouse | Jan 18 2012, 04:22 PM Post #101 |
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Yeah, Tintin is wonderful. Tom McCarthy's book on Tintin is worth a look after you've read a few more of them. Meanwhile, I just finished Citizen Rex by Mario and Gilbert Hernandez. Pretty disappointed with this sci-fi effort. I love love love the work of Gilbert and Jaime on Love & Rockets, and Gilbert's standalone graphic novel Sloth is amazing. I'm guessing that this is really Mario's work with Gilbert tidying up after him and Mario is like Branwell Bronte, the sibling without the talent... |
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| mandm | Jan 18 2012, 05:24 PM Post #102 |
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Yeah, well I actually came via McCarthy. I enjoyed some of that book, but....some of it is rather fanciful, don't you think? |
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| Funhouse | Jan 18 2012, 10:35 PM Post #103 |
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Yeah, fanciful is about right, but very entertaining all the same, and it made me want to go back and read the books again. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 26 2012, 12:10 PM Post #104 |
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Black Light Project Between 1998 and 2007 writer Pedro Rosa Mendes and photographer Wolf Böwig reported on the West African wars. Their work was published in leading magazines worldwide and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. Now, they are joining 15 storytelling artists from all over the world merging writings and photographs with drawings - stories of daily life and survival during the wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and Ivory Coast. excerpt |
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| Funhouse | Feb 17 2012, 11:08 PM Post #105 |
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Professor Munakata's British Museum Adventure by Hoshino Yukinobu: fun manga that delivers what the title promises: a British Museum adventure with the badass Japanese academic Professor Munakata. High concept (thieves steal Stonehenge?) and at times a bit didactic, but beautifully drawn.
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| Deleted User | Feb 18 2012, 12:37 PM Post #106 |
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published by British Museum Press? 
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| Funhouse | Feb 18 2012, 06:33 PM Post #107 |
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Yeah, they brought him over to visit the museum and it's pitched as a kind of collaboration between Yukinobu and the museum... It's not just an ad for the museum, though. |
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| frunk | Mar 10 2012, 12:58 PM Post #108 |
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RIP moebius.
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| Deleted User | Mar 11 2012, 03:09 AM Post #109 |
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I read a biography of him some years ago written by Andreas Platthaus, who is one of the main promoters of comics and graphic novels in Germany. The book included a lot of pictures of his works that he did besides comics. As I said somewhere above, I consider Moebius mainly as an artist and not a writer of comics. Drawing was his strong point. There are some really nice works that I would love to have as prints on my walls. |
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| sub-pet | Mar 11 2012, 04:31 PM Post #110 |
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the doc Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures is def worth a watch if you're interested. I just did. here. |
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| param | Mar 12 2012, 11:56 PM Post #111 |
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This book is making a lot of news in here. Manga lovers ( and those who had ben to these paret of the world at least once) will like this... Yukichi Yamamatsu - Stupid guy goes to India http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article2927589.ece http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/an-unsentimental-often-hilarious-work |
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| Deleted User | Jun 12 2012, 07:57 AM Post #112 |
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Literature prizes for graphic novelists: Art Spiegelman just got 50,000 euros with the Siegfried Unseld Prize, which was taken before by authors like Amos Oz and Peter Handke! Maus, MetaMaus and In the Shadow of No Towers are mentioned explicitely. |
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| nnyhav | Jun 12 2012, 09:48 AM Post #113 |
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So what you figure his Nobel odds will come in at? |
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| Deleted User | Jun 12 2012, 09:49 AM Post #114 |
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 I thought about asking the same thing
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| Deleted User | Jul 5 2012, 07:31 AM Post #115 |
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Just realized that Alison Bechdel's new book is out: Are You My Mother?. Will need to investigate if it is supposed to be as good as Fun Home. Thanks to Mr Esposito I found this review at The New Inquiry
damn, I will have to buy it... |
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| Funhouse | Jul 5 2012, 07:51 PM Post #116 |
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Thanks for the heads up, Birne. I'll need to get onto that too. |
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| Jayaprakash | Jul 5 2012, 10:42 PM Post #117 |
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What bothered me was the way the blurb briefly described the plot then said something on the lines of how, most of all, this is about the power of stories or something like that. I am very tired of stories about the power of stories. I like Chunky Rice, but was not attracted to Blankets. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 10 2012, 06:48 AM Post #118 |
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Hey Funhouse, your link is not working anymore, apparently because MobileMe was shut down recently. Do you have your great list of recommendations still online somewhere? Thanks! |
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| Funhouse | Jul 10 2012, 08:09 PM Post #119 |
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I'm glad you asked... I had to get it back up, because I use it for student recommendations: http://graphicnovels.posterous.com/ I must look over it and update it, actually... Edited by Funhouse, Jul 10 2012, 08:11 PM.
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| Deleted User | Jul 11 2012, 01:32 AM Post #120 |
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cool. thanks! |
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