All Posts2009 December
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Map of My Heart by John Porcellino
Porcellino, John. Map of My Heart. Drawn & Quarterly, 2009. 360p. ISBN: 9781897299937. King-Cat Classix from 2007, the first big collection of King-Cat comics from Drawn & Quarterly, was often a tiring read. John Porcellino’s beautiful minimalism and poetic comics did not appear fully formed. It was only towards the end of that volume that [...]
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Lose 1 by Michael Deforge
Deforge, Michael. Lose #1. Koyama, 2009. $5 from http://kingtrash.com/comics.html I’ve read a bunch of lamentations for the almost lost form of the single artist indie comic pamphlet. When I started reading comics in the early 90s my local shop had a surprisingly large section of indie comics of all sort. Slowly they have been dwindling [...]
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The First Transmission of the MCC
Anger, Agnes, C. Che Salazar, and Abel Jiminez. The First Transmission of the Minimalist Comics Collective. DIY Jet Comics, 2009. 24p. $3.50. This is a blatantly experimental comic, the title alone should tell you that. With a group name like “Minimalist Comics Collective” I was expecting to find some kind of manifesto within the pages [...]
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A Distant Neighborhood 1
Taniguchi, Jiro. A Distant Neighborhood v.1. Fanfare/Pontent Mon, 2009. ISBN: 9788492444281. I read the first volume (of two) of Jiro Taniguchi’s A Distant Neighborhood the other night. I am so far not very impressed. At this point the story reads like a partially autobiographical story that indulges in the often wished for desire to “do [...]