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Sammy Harkham is one of my favorite cartoonists right now. Pictured above is a great sequence from his story Black Death, found in issues 1 and 2 of his comic Crickets. There’s a simultaneous sense of both stillness and energy to Harkham’s line that I find very compelling, and his command of cartoon iconography is […]

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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 […]