The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier. Fantagraphics, 2007. Color, hardcover, $14.95.
Paul Hornshemeier’s The Three Paradoxes speaks its theme loudly. To wit, these panels:
A gap between two spaces, a hesitation to movement, stuck in a loop, a mental block. This semi-autobiographical book (or fictionalized autobiography, depending on how you read “Paul Hornschemeier” the character in relation [...]
Tagged colorscheme, narrative, style, themeFinder Volume 8: Five Crazy Women by Carla Speed McNeil. Lightspeed Press. 2006. 128 p., $15.95.
The latest volume of Finder is the eighth. I’ve only read three of the other volumes, but I’ve been following along online for the past months (almost a year now). As far as I can tell, the series is not [...]
Posting this early, since it’s written. Let me also remind everyone that a new strip of Things Change is up today (Wednesday) as it is every Sunday and Wednesday. Today’s strip ends the first story.
See my first post on the fall line-up from First Second.
Emmanuel Guibert and Joann Sfar’s Sardine in Outer Space was one [...]
Someone was kind enough to send review copies of First Second’s fall 2006 releases, so I sat down and started reading them. I’ll cover them in two parts, as I haven’t read them all yet.
So far, I’m quite disappointed. I had fairly high expectations when I first learned about FIrst Second. Here was a publisher [...]
Morlac by Leif Tande. Montreal: La Pasteque, 2006. 152p., 23.95$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 where [...]