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Kramer’s Ergot 7 at du9

My first (long) article for the French comics/bande dessinée site du9 is now up. It’s on Kramer’s Ergot 7 and the use of scale in the included pages. (There’s also a French translation.)
Syncopated Volume 3

Syncopated Volume 3 edited by Brendan Burford. Syncopated Comics, 2007. $15. Anthologies are by their nature hit and miss. One can only judge them by how much the good outweighs the bad (or boring). Syncopated Volume 3 is a mix of the good and the so-so, nothing outright bad, but much that could have been [...]
Two Anthologies

An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories edited by Ivan Brunetti (Yale UP, 2006). 400p, $28.00. Big Fat Little Lit edited by Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman (Puffin Books, 2006). 144p., $14.99. Any anthology lives or dies by the choices of its editor and/or the general plan for selection. The success of Kramer’s [...]
SPX 2005 Anthology

SPX 2005, edited by Brian Ralph. Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, 2005. 188p., b+w, $12.95. Just got this in the mail, the annual collection to come out from the Small Press Expo and as a benefit for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund… Marc Sobel covered this at CBG earlier in the week, and I [...]
Scheherazade: Comics About Love Treachery Mothers and Monsters

Scheherazade: Comics About Love Treachery Mothers and Monsters, Edited by Megan Kelso. Soft Skull, 2004. 224p., purple on off-white, $19.95. An anthology of women comic artists is a fine idea, but sadly, this one is not the place to go if you want to find more women comic artists to read. The stories here are [...]
D+Q Showcase 3
The Education of a Comics Artist

The Education of a Comics Artist. Ed. Michael Dooley and Steven Heller. NY: Allworth Press, 2005. This collection of short (averaging about 3 pages) writings on comics needed to be either longer or shorter, somewhere between the interesting pieces that were all too short and the pieces that seemed completely pointless a solution could be [...]
Kramer’s Ergot 5

Kramer’s Ergot 5 edited by Sammy Harkham (Gingko Press, 2004). Available from Buenaventura Press. The mixing of “art” and “comics” is often maligned. People don’t want to mix the precious objects of art with the narrative mass production of comics. Even in art school I was also more a fan of the cheap/mass-produced than the [...]