MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

The Hooded Utilitarian has a roundtable on David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp going on this week and some of next, featuring some great comics writers (besides the regular Utilitarians) like Domingos Isabelinho, Matthias Wivel, and Craig Fischer, as well as yours truly. My post (second in the roundtable) just went up this morning. You can read [...]

The Salon by Nick Bertozzi. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007. 182p, 8.5 x 5.875″, color, $19.95. I’ve had this book for months and have put off reviewing it. I reread it through two or three times and skimmed parts of it a few times more. I have mixed feelings about it, which I hope I can [...]

American Elf: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries of James Kolchalka Book Two January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2005 by James Kolchalks. Top Shelf, 2007. $19.95. Daily at http://americanelf.com/ American Elf is the only work of Kolchalka I’ve really enjoyed over the years. Something about the strip that maintains my interest and attention is lacking from [...]

Salmon Doubts by Adam Sacks. Alternative Comics, 2004. I rediscovered this book on my shelf the other day and realized I’d never written about it. This is one of those books I took a chance in pre-ordering and was pleasantly surprised when I read it. Salmon Doubts is a story about salmon, slightly anthropomorphized. They [...]