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Best Print Comics of 2010
A quick disclaimer: Like previous years, my list is a mix of comics first published this year, comics first translated this year, comics republished/collected this year, and comics from previous years that I first read this year. I haven’t read a lot of the big books of the year that I see appearing on other [...]
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LitGraphic at the Michener Museum
The Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA is currently (through January 30, 2011) showing “LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel.” That’s right in my neighborhood (metaphorically speaking) and I rarely get to any gallery shows with comics in them, so I visited it this past weekend (actually back in October now, as I forgot [...]
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The Zabime Sisters by Aristophane
Aristophane. The Zabime Sisters (1996). Translated by Matt Madden. First Second, 2010. ISBN 9781596436381. Aristophane has been on my radar for awhile as one of those French comic artists I needed to read more of. This year I am extremely happy to have become acquainted with his work. In conjunction with translating an amazing article [...]
![[Roughly putting a French translation back into English: My line constantly brings to mind it's existence as ink. I call on the complicity of my reader who transforms the line into meaning, using our common well of culture, history, and poetry. - Saul Steinberg.]](http://madinkbeard.com/blog/wp-content/images/tessier_quadrilogues_17-207x300.jpg "tessier_quadrilogues_17")
