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Technological Advances?
As is often the case with posts by David Bordwell, his film analysis makes me think of comics: In the late 1920s, for instance, sound recording made the camera heavier than the tripods of the silent era could bear. Supply firms engineered “camera carriages” that could wheel the beast from setup to setup. But this [...]
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Ordinary Victories 2 by Manu Larcenet
This second translated volume of Manu Larcenet’s Ordinary Victories (Le Combat Ordinaire) from NBM includes volumes 3 and 4 of the French version. As I’ve already written about Volume 1 of the English translation and Volume 3 of the French edition (the first half of this translated volume), I can’t say I have a lot to add on the macro level. I’d suggest reading those previous two posts first. Rereading them now, I see my opinions haven’t changed. Outside of discoveries from my previous readings, what stuck out to me in this volume? A few things.
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Francois Avril
Tom Spurgeon linked over to Francois Avril’s website the other day. My main exposure to his work is the story “63 Rue de la Grange Aux Belles” which was published in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 2 no. 1 (1994), a collaboration with Phillipe Petit-Roulet, which is most notable for its wordlessness and use of images [...]
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My Boy by Olivier Schrauwen
My Boy (Mon Fiston) by Olivier Schrauwen. Bries, 2006. Following last week’s review of The Hero’s Life and Death Triumphant, I’ll take a look at a second book from the Belgian publisher Bries, this time translated into English. My Boy is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is in black and white borderless panels, [...]
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Panels: Herge’s TV
Since this is Tintin week, I thought I’d share a few panels from a fantastic sequence in Hergé’s The Castafiore Emerald. Calculus, the hard of hearing inventor, has created a color television (seemingly unconcerned that such an item was already invented at the time as one of his friends points out). Hergé’s love of abstract [...]
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Cold Heat 1 by Jones and Santoro
Cold Heat #1 by Ben Jones and Frank Santoro. Picturebox, 2006. 24 p. with glossy cover, color, $5. I have not so far been moved by the works of Ben Jones (of Paper Rad) that I’ve read in various places, but Frank Santoro has so impressed me with his work that at this point I’ll [...]
