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Plot-driven wartime narratives―whether filmic or literary in nature―are too easy to make really boring and to completely screw up. See, the proble...

10/13/08 - 0 comments

1960s Japan was a tumultuous era of revolution in which the dramatically separated left and right viciously and violently came head-to-head for a batt...

08/01/08 - 0 comments

What's immediately striking about Lauren Weinstein's The Goddess of War (PictureBox Inc.) is its endless tongue-in-cheek humor. Comics of this proport...

07/30/08 - 0 comments

When discussing Michel Gondry, most mention his alien (or at least un-American) sensibilities and quirky, handmade, crafty, and somewhat childish crea...

07/23/08 - 0 comments

Since the Golden Age of comics, publishers have fought long and hard for industry domination. Because of their serial nature, creators have always fel...

07/18/08 - 0 comments

Oftentimes, an artist's work superceds his name, and this rings particularly true in the world of Japanese manga, a format that evokes cheesy, gimmick...

07/17/08 - 0 comments

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival has coalesced every June at the Puck Building since its inception in 2002 to celebrate and sell the comic...

06/20/08 - 0 comments

Diesel Sweeties was, arguably, one of the very first Web comics... some would say it defied categorization at its inception as there were no other suc...

06/13/08 - 0 comments

A few months before Gary Panter's two-volume monograph was released by PictureBox Inc., we interviewed the longstanding L.A./N.Y.C. illustrator, desig...

06/05/08 - 0 comments

Alex Robinson sets himself apart from the rest of the comic world with his long, sprawling, dramatic graphic narratives (Box Office Poison, Tricked). ...

04/03/08 - 0 comments