Web Comics Touched by the Brush
The Moon Fell on Me is an infrequent, gemlike Web comic by the itinerant Franklin Einspruch, who happened to come to my recent interactive fiction talk at AXIOM. He told me he was trying to do...
View ArticleComics Are Great when Your Life Sucks
Comics are written by people whose lives suck, for people whose lives suck. Obviously, that’s not entirely true. Alternative comics do seem to be highly in touch with the lameness of life, though,...
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Eden
Eden, by Pablo Holmberg, Drawn & Quarterly, 2010 Yes, these comics sometimes veer into the extremely sappy, but they’re metafictional and wonderfully fabular throughout. Eden collects more than 100...
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Big Questions
Radical Books of 2011, 10/10 Big Questions, Anders Nilsen, Drawn & Quarterly, 9781770460478 Anders Nilsen has done exquisite sequential art, a.k.a. comix. I’m particularly fond of the trembling...
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A Stray in the Woods
A Stray in the Woods, Alison Wilgus, 2013. (I was given a review copy of this book.) Here’s an intriguing feline adventure, pleasingly illustrated and narrated. This brings a lot together: It’s the...
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xkcd’s Answer to World Clock
… is today’s comic. And it’s true, Randall probably did not know about World Clock (book, code). Maybe he didn’t even know about my inspirations, Harry Mathews’s “The Chronogram for 1998″ or Stanislaw...
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Rage of Poseidon
Anders Nilsen’s latest Drawn & Quarterly publication is a formidable follow-up to Big Questions. The accordion book holds the human stories of forgotten (and current) gods, told in text and...
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