MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

I’ve had the two volumes of Alex Toth: Edge of Genius on my “to review” shelf/pile for quite awhile. I finally decided that I’ll just write about one of the stories, the last one in volume 2 (theoretically the most recent of all the stories in these volumes[1]) and one of the most refined looking of these stories from the earlier part of Toth’s career.

This is a bit of a ramble, as I read/write my way through the story. I didn’t want to reproduce the whole story here, but I have included a lot of images to keep my commentary comprehensible.

My wife recently rearranged a large portion of our books so that they are on shelves by color. It’s not the best system for finding a specific book (granted, I’ve had some of these books long enough that I do know off the top of my head what color many of them are), but by [...]

Romance Without Tears. Stories by Dana Dutch. Edited by John Benson. Fantagraphics, 2003. 160p. Reprint volumes of comics of various times and genres have become prevalent in the market lately: multi-volume complete comic strip volumes (Peanuts, Gasoline Alley, etc), reissues of EC comics, DC and Marvel’s various projects both high-end (archives/masterworks) and low-end (essentials). One [...]