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Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
Shaw, Dash. Bottomless Belly Button. Fantagraphics, 2008. 9781560979159. $29.99, 720p. If I summarized the plot of Dash Shaw’s brick of a comic, Bottomless Belly Button (henceforth, BBB), it wouldn’t sound like much. Three grown-up children return to their family home for a week to learn that their aged parents are getting divorced, psychology ensues, then [...]
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Metronome by Veronique Tanaka
Tanaka, Véronique. Metronome. NBM, 2008. 68p, black and white hardcover, $13.95. 9781561635269. Metronome is an unusual and interesting comic, but it’s not as unusual as the back copy on the book would have you believe: “Just when you thought that nobody could create something new in the comic medium, here comes Metronome – a 64-page [...]
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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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Blue Pills by Frederik Peeters
Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story by Frederik Peeters (2001). Translated by Anjali Singh. Houghton Mifflin, 2008. 192p, $18.95. The comics that get the most attention in the wider press seem to be those with the most socio-political relevance, those that deal with certain “issues” (think Maus, think Persepolis). Houghton Mifflin’s hit from 2006, Fun [...]
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Bendis and Maleev’s Daredevil
In a rare move, I read a superhero comic this weekend. The first year’s worth of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s Daredevil. I don’t have a lot of superhero books on my shelves, but one of them is Miller and Mazzuchelli’s Daredevil: Born Again. That sequence always impressed as showing a very human superhero [...]