MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

I’ve been following Tym Godek’s blog for quite awhile now, and I’m finally getting around to mentioning a few interesting comics he’s put up. This post features a number of autobiographical/diary strips from late October. I always enjoy Tym’s clear and simple style, but it’s his penchant for formal play that makes some of the [...]

Morlac by Leif Tande. Montreal: La Pasteque, 2006. 152p., 23.95$C. Formal experimentation in comics is often overlooked and under-attempted. While one finds bits and pieces of experimentation in various works, rarely does a comic seem to be produced solely as an ambitious experiment. Leif Tande’s Morlac is such a work, an impressive and well-executed experiment [...]

Dash Shaw has a great comics up at his site called “Cartooning Symbolia.” Borrowing from Mort Walker’s The Lexicon of Comicana and then adding to the cartooning symbols and their neologistic names, Shaw weaves a story based around iconographic cartooning symbols. It’s a masterful piece of work that cleverly mixes a story of an artist, [...]

The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James. Coach House,1975. I wanted to give this book a serious review, but alas I can’t. For one thing, it’s already overdue from the library (from another library, so I can’t keep it forever), for another, I just couldn’t concentrate on it. I read it two times, and I’ve come to [...]

Dart, Rebecca. RabbitHead. Alternative Comics, 2004. 24 oversize pages, $4.95. I gave up on going to comic stores regularly over a year ago. Instead I discovered Mile High Comics where I can order from the direct catalog months in advance. Unlike when going to stores, I never miss those obscure comics I want copies of [...]