Mowgli's Mirror

Strong Objections

Seiichi Hayashi

WildC.A.T.S

Nemo: River of Ghosts

Tatsuhiko Yamagami

Valentina

Silence

I Almost Pity You, Silver-Top

New Years!

This Time, We Boogie!

Instructional Comics - How to Strip Your Baby

Source: Will Eisner, M16A1 Rifle: Operation and Preventative Maintenance (1969)

Instructional Comics - Multiple Processes

Found this while investigating why Chrome runs so many chrome.exe files in Task Manager. Here was the answer, bright and clear, in a comic by none-other than Scott McCloud! Those Google kids know what they're doing.

A Woman's Army?!!

Trina Robbins, Fight Girl Comics #1 (Print Mint, 1972)

Comics - Joe Kessler

Source

Kaz - The Tragedy of Satan

I Didn't Think Erik Larson Could Do This

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COPRA

Source: The Comics Journal

"Reading Copra we see these elements plainly inspired by superhero comics of the past, minus the explanation of context that would be offered up by dozens of books published every month for decades on end. Here it is always the first time, although there are no introductions to set out ideas of any limiting parameters. Everything is in media res, as if Fiffe is trying to capture the feeling of reading a random comic-book issue and not understanding who all the characters are meant to be- but somehow he forgets that those old comics, when well-made, were constructed so that a first-time audience could find them, and be provided with introductions to characters and recognizable stakes. In other words, they told an actual story, and didn’t just demonstrate the artist’s approach to color and page design.

I acknowledge that to a practitioner of the form, the artist’s approach to the labor of their job might be the most interesting element. This is a twenty-dollar collection of a comic explicitly designed for people whose ideal comics reading experience is paying fifty cents apiece for old Norm Breyfogle comics, and who feel as if the stories and scripting mostly just get in the way. Those readers are out there, and I hope they find Copra, if they have not already. But other readers, seeking a comic they can actually read, may hearken back to the early ’90s, and wonder, “How is this particularly different from the first wave of Image Comics?” The only real answer is that Fiffe is comparatively disinterested in splash pages."

Bear Time Is My Favourite Time

The latest episode of Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men dropped yesterday. This week they discussed in some detail Bill Sienkiewicz's work on New Mutants. They make the claim that Sienkiewicz's work marks a turning point in comics generally (although here I think what they really mean to say is 'superhero comics generally')--a ripping open of the envelope with respect to what the pages of sci-fi inflected, action adventure dramas could do.

I wish that they were right. I wish that the page to the left was indeed a turning point. But it really wasn't. Sienkiewicz has been influential, yes, but the body-stocking- punch-em-up-will-they-or-won't-they-kiss-this-week crowd will always look to Jim Lee and the like before they even consider challenging either themselves or their audience with something evocative and expressive rather than naturalistic and classical.

At any rate: this Sienkiewicz kid has it goin' on!

Not Only That of Flame and Fury