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Two Peanuts Anomalies
Two strips from the 1967-1968 volume of The Complete Peanuts by Charles Schulz (Fantagraphics, 2008). These panels from the February 14, 1967 strip have a certain manic energy to them that contrasts with Schulz’s usually calm images. Even images such as Charlie Brown getting knocked out of his clothes by another well hit baseball does [...]
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H2 by Mitsuru Adachi
H2 by Mitsuru Adachi. 34 volumes 1992-1999. Scanlation by Mangascreamer (vol 1-29 (so far)). H2 is the only baseball manga I could find scanlations of which weren’t stuck in an annoying online interface. Mangascreamer has done an admirable job in getting out 29 of the 34 total volumes of this series. I’m eagerly awaiting the [...]
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Sturm on Baseball Comics
A brief quote from James Sturm in an interview with ALA’s (that’s the American Library Association) Booklist: Booklist: In Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow and The Golem’s Mighty Swing, you produced suspenseful and exciting baseball sequences. What would you tell a student of cartooning who wanted to create the same effect? Sturm: Try to [...]
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Satchel Paige by Sturm and Tommaso
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Sturm (writer) and Rich Tommaso (art). Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2008. 90 p., $9.99. This week’s baseball comic is another work from James Sturm, this time in conjunction with Rich Tommaso. I’m assuming Sturm is writing and making the breakdowns, while Rich is providing the drawings/compositions. Though [...]
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The Golem’s Mighty Swing
The Golem’s Mighty Swing by James Sturm. Drawn and Quarterly: 2001. 112p, $12.95. Baseball month continues with this comic by James Sturm, the first of two baseball comics by Sturm I’ll be reviewing. Outside of his work with the Center for Cartoon Studies, Sturm is best known for historical fiction comics, included the recent collection [...]
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Cotton Woods by Ray Gotto
Cotton Woods by Ray Gotto. Introduction by Max Allan Collins. Kitchen Sink Press, 1991. ISBN: 0878161457. Baseball month starts with this classic comic strip from the 1950′s, Cotton Woods, in an out of print collection from Kitchen Sink which covers a selection of the strips from it’s start in the summer of 1955 through the [...]
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Baseball Week (Month)
Spring training games start this week in Florida and Arizona. In a rare bit of timeliness, I’m going to take the next few posts (weeks?) to discuss some baseball comics. To start things off, this link came my way today (from DB Dowd): a New York Times slideshow of wondering Robert Weaver sketches from spring [...]
