Issue 6 of Elijah Brubaker’s Reich just arrived from Sparkplug. I’ve been reading and enjoying the series since it started–one of the only serialized pamphlets I still get–but haven’t had the time to write about it. Brubaker’s got a great style, geometric, hatched and patterned, with the occasional burst of abstraction and expressionism.
September 28th, 2008
Categories: Comics
150 panels of Concrete
This page, from the third issue of Concrete by Paul Chadwick (or the first volume of the collected edition), came up on the Comix Scholars list this evening. In it we see 150 panels of Concrete swimming in the ocean, part of a story where he endeavors to swim the length of the Atlantic.
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February 11th, 2007
Categories: Comics
My New Column
I started a new column at Comixpedia called “Panels & Pictures”. You can now read the first column about single panel comics. This will be a monthly feature without any real theme so far, just me rambling about whatever catches my eye that month.
November 3rd, 2006
Categories: Bande Dessinee, Panels Alone
Panels: Tintin finds nothing
Tom McCarthy in his Tintin and the Secret of Literature refers to this panel from Hergé’s The Castafiore Emerald, and I just had to share it.
Just another one of those simple but brilliant panels by Hergé.
October 29th, 2006
Categories: Panels Alone
Panels: Raymond’s Leaves
If you’ve also been following my comic, Things Change, you’ll have noticed my use of the silhouettes of leaves to alter the shapes of my panels (starting in last Wednesday’s strip and continuing today and this week’s forthcoming strip). While the particular use I put these silhouettes to is my own, the visuals came from [...]
October 11th, 2006
Categories: Bande Dessinee, Panels Alone
Panels: Herge’s TV
Since this is Tintin week, I thought I’d share a few panels from a fantastic sequence in Hergé’s The Castafiore Emerald.
Calculus, the hard of hearing inventor, has created a color television (seemingly unconcerned that such an item was already invented at the time as one of his friends points out). Hergé’s love of abstract and [...]
July 18th, 2006
Categories: Bande Dessinee, Reviews
CHRZ
CHRZ by Stefan J.H. Van Dinther. Belgium: Bries, 2005. 64p. 18 Euros (I paid $19 at MOCCA).
I’ve read Van Dinther’s album CHRZ a few times now and I can’t tell you what it’s all about. That I keep rereading it despite my confusion is a testament to the visual invention and graphic force of [...]
June 14th, 2006
Categories: Panels Alone
Panels: L&R 16
I rarely write about Love and Rockets, mostly because I don’t know where to begin, but it is hands down one of my favorite comics, at least the Jaime side of it. Here are three panels from the most recent issue (Vol. 2 #16):
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Great use of silhouettes here that is reminiscent of Toth. [...]
May 1st, 2006
Categories: Clouds
Clouds 2
Today’s clouds (click on the image for a bigger version) come from Frontline Combat #12 (1953) and are drawn by the great Alex Toth (which means the text is by Harvey Kurtzman). This whole story takes place in the air and clouds are often used as a environment and grounding for the planes. In this [...]
April 18th, 2006
Categories: Comics, Panels Alone
Panels: Colan’s Monochrome Bogie
I love this panel by Gene Colan and Dick Giordano from “As Time Goes By” (My Love #16 (1972) reprinted in Marvel Romance (2006), written by Gary Friedrich). Blue monochrome always works for me, but it’s aided by the angular realism of Colan and Giordano’s use of both heavy blacks and thin hatching (look at [...]