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Best Comics of 2008
The year winds down, vacation comes and goes, and best of lists make their appearances. I'm usually pretty bad about remembering what I read each year. With the help of my (I think up-to-date) Library Thing account, I have a pretty good list of what comics I have from 2008 (that discounts minis and pamphlets, but I added them to my list below as much as I could). I tried to stick to comics published this year, either new, translated, collected, or, occasionally, new editions, though some might be a little off. This year, besides listing a best-of list of an arbitrary number of works, I'm also listing, as much as possible, all the "new" comics I read. I'm linking to my posts on same, though I only wrote about a tiny percentage. (Continue Reading...)
Ellipses in Japanese
Looking back at this post about a thought balloon with two vertical rows of ellipses in a manga. I found this quote:
Some English-style punctuation, such as exclamation points and question marks, are fairly common but none matches the frequency of the ubiquitous ellipses marks (typically rendered as a vertical row of dots), which further extends [...]
Campbell on Marginalia
In one of his holiday interviews Tom Spurgeon talks to Eddie Campbell:
SPURGEON: I’m always fascinated in how you approach your different projects visually, Eddie. Monsieur Leotard is very complex that way: there’s a grid on some pages, but the margins are frequently filled, and there are sometimes up to four competing visual throughlines on a [...]
Best Webcomics of 2008
I realized that I neglected to mention webcomics (with the exception of BodyWorld and Jason Overby’s work) on my best of list or its accompanying reading list. Most of the non-web comics I read are single works. I read very few serials at this point (and those I do read are generally a long way [...]
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