Tag: Comics

NRA’s Secret Graphic Novel Revealed! – Wonkette The artwork in this forthcoming “graphic novel” (that’s really just an illustrated pamphlet as far as I can tell) by the National Rifle Association looks better than 99% of the books that won Ignatz awards at last year’s SPX. The lambasting the book gets from Wonkette (linked above) …

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Comic World News | Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now If you’re up on comics news, you likely know that DC Comics is set to launch a new line of comics aimed at girls, called “Minx.” Despite the myriad message board debates about various aspects of this launch—from the name of the line to the dearth …

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The Comics Reporter reviews Kim Deitch’s SHADOWLAND I’m really glad to see this review of Kim Deitch’s Shadowland–the first such review I’ve seen. Despite being a contemporary of many of the “big names” in underground comics, Deitch (and for that matter another favorite of mine, Jack Jackson) seems to often get swept under the rug. …

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Ask The A.V. Club: December 18, 2006 | The A.V. Club on what sorts of graphic novels they’d like to see: I’d … like to see more graphic novels that aspire to be literary, and not mere post-adolescent soap operas and melodramas. Too many of the non-fantastic “mature” graphic novels rely on disease, abuse, cultural …

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First up: This clip of Invisible Hands, the great animated Richard Sala short series on MTV’s Liquid TV: Here’re a couple of animated versions of Michael Kupperman strips.  Unlike a lot of this kinda stuff, these both translate really well to animated versions I think.  And they’re both hysterically funny: And, finally, Al Hirschfeld drawing …

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