Word: comicbooks
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...festival excludes mainstream and "genre" houses, the publishers who concentrate on singular artistic visions get a targeted demographic to die for. Consequently sales for these oftentimes one-woman operations far exceed those at most other conventions. Filled with interesting and often hard-to-find singularities, it becomes the best comicbook store in America for one day. So now it's getting crowded...
...growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, "Persepolis" provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life. It has the strange quality of a note in a bottle written by a shipwrecked islander. That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comicbook makes "Persepolis" totally unique and indispensable...
...Nightmare Alley" can be found at better comicbook stores, and regular bookstores...
Comix as memoir, covered in the last installment of TIME.comix, is just one of the many underused approaches to comicbook narrative. The adaptation of other media has become a lost genre in graphic literature. From the 1940s to the early 60s Gilberton Publications' "Classics Illustrated," featured "Stories by the World's Greatest Authors," as the tagline said. Since then, except for the mostly execrable "franchising" of sci-fi movies and TV series, comicbooks have done little exploring in the adaptation of other media. Of late it has been one publisher, the New York-based NBM (Nantier, Beall and Minoustchine) that...
Satisfying your superhero jones can be tough when you're a comix snob like me. Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible. Fortunately the world still has Alan Moore, the English comicbook writer who first achieved stateside acclaim in the 1980s with "The Watchmen." For the last couple of years Moore has been the principle writer of multiple titles under the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Productions (an imprint of DC Comics, a subsidiary of TIME.com's parent corporation, AOL Time Warner). Out of the various projects, "League...