May 2006 Comics
Recently arrived comics that came out from mid-April to mid-May:
Love and Rockets #16 by Los Bros Hernandez (Fantagraphics): It’s always a pleasure to get a new issue of L&R, even though I tend to only read half the issue as I’m a Jaime fan but not really a Gilbert fan. I may be one of the few people who preferred the brief period when they were each doing their own books. Anyway, Jaime gives us more from Ray’s point of view as he meets up with Maggie at a party, and we get another day of Hopey’s life. Gotta love the way Jaime has let his two main characters go about their mostly separate lives for so long now. As usual, Jaime’s art is beautiful and his compositions are worthy of study.
The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell (First Second): This will take a full review some day. A heterogeneous work about the disappearance of Eddie Campbell that fits as a follow-up to his various autobiographical Alec books. Incorporates comic strips, fumetti, regular old comic pages, and typeset text pages. Formally quite interesting, visually attractive, thematically… on first reading I was a little underwhelmed, but I’m going to reread.
The Lost Colony Book 1 by Grady Klein (First Second): I was excited about this much promoted book from newcomer Grady Klein, but after reading it my excitement has dulled. There is a little too much here of many parts of the book (crowded pages, characters, colors) and not enough of other things (expression, background, clarity).
Concrete Vol. 7: The Human Dilemma by Paul Chadwick (Dark Horse): This is the most recent Concrete mini-series collected as part of the ongoing reprint series. It also appears out of order with volumes 5 and 6 still forthcoming over the next couple months. I’m still not sure whether I’ll read this now or wait until I can get to it in order. Either way, Concrete takes on population control? Sign me up.
The Complete Peanuts: 1959 - 1960 by Charles M. Schulz (Fantagraphics): What can I say? These collections have completely turned me around on my lack of interest in Peanuts. I love it now.
Krazy & Ignatz 1937 - 1938: Shifting Sands Dusts Its Cheek in Powdered Beauty by George Herriman (Fantagraphics): The second volume of color strips. After last volume’s rather lackluster layouts (very regular) in this volume Herriman returns to the more inventive and dynamic layouts from previous years. No extras in this one, just two full years of Sundays.
Hotwire Comix and Capers edited by Glenn Head (Fantagraphics): An anthology book that I purchased just for the Matt Madden comic included (done with some kind of constraint). A quick flip through the book shows the rest will probably not be to my taste. Oh well.
The Awake Field by Ron Rege (Drawn and Quarterly): I recently read Rege’s earlier Skibber Bee-Bye. The Awake Field feels more personal and positive. Rege’s art has a beautiful all over quality to it, as in his style is such that one’s eye just flows over the whole image without clear focus in a way that really works well.
Kings in Disguise by James Vance and Dan Burr (WW Norton): I haven’t even looked at this yet. Reviews I’ve read have been both positive and negative.
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