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I’ve been lazily collecting issues of Paul Pope’s THB for a year or so now, meaning that I don’t really search them out or anything, but that I will happily buy anything I happen to find for a reasonable price. Giant THB 1.v.2, pictured above, was the first issue I bought. Anyways, I think First […]

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Top Five Comics that I Wish Would Be Collected/Reprinted/Translated          (i.e. somehow become readily available in English as printed books) 1) Rubbet Blanket by David Mazzucchelli 2) RAW Collected Editions (edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly) 3) Collected Idées Noires by Andre Franquin (or anything by Franquin, but I think this might sell better than […]

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I just reread the last volume of Takehiko Inoue’s Slam Dunk for the first time in several years (no, not online – I have most of the series in French). I had forgotten just how good it is. The last three chapters only take thirty seconds of ‘real time,’ excluding the little epilogue, and it’s […]

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Maybe this is kind of contrarian of me, and it’s certainly a bit late, but: Best Comics I Read in 2010 That Were Not Published in 2010: 1) Acme Novelty Library 19 by Chris Ware 2) Love and Rockets Vol. 1 by Jaime, Gilbert and Mario Hernandez (why yes I did read it all in […]

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Pictured: a page from Chester Brown’s sadly uncollected partial adaptation of the Gospels I’ve been thinking a lot lately about comics that use grids. What’s especially interesting to me right now are stories that use one grid layout exclusively. Chester does it in Louis Riel, parts of the Gospel stories and some of his autobio […]

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Hi. I just joined Tumblr because I was told that it was a good idea to do so, and also so that I can contribute to the Suicide Wolf  tumblr. This place seems like a good fit for me because I have limited time but lots of things I want to say about comics. I […]