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...Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences. Where the CBLDF protects the first amendment rights of people associated with the industry, the Xeric foundation fosters new growth through its grants given out to first-time self-publishing comic artists. An invaluable resource, the Xeric has provided monies to aspiring authors since 1992, resulting in dozens of books that may never have otherwise seen publication. Two of the 2004 recipients, Nick Jeffrey and Karl Stevens, have recently released their Xeric-sponsored books. Both of their works prove the value...
Robert Crumb will undoubtedly go down in history as comicdom's most complex artist. Publicly shy, he nevertheless makes himself the focus of much of his work; highly critical of consumer culture he nevertheless has tons of "merch" and a website to push it; most importantly he uses the "harmless" medium of comic books to explore the outer reaches of adult assumptions about race, sex and the American condition. New Yorkers recently had a rare opportunity to see Crumb face his contradictions and his legacy when he appeared at the New York Public Library in a conversation with Robert Hughes...
...made all the more remarkable by the fact that all of the art, along with much of the production (printing, paper, distribution, etc.), has been donated, with proceeds going to various charities. That everyone in the industry should have the same generosity of spirit and coin makes this comicdom's finest moment. In order to better examine all of these projects TIME.comix will divide its coverage over two weeks, vaguely divided into the "alternative" and "mainstream" efforts. A list of all the books and their availability appears at the end of this column...
...Besides news, the "Journal" also provides comicdom's only source of serious critical discourse in print. Their exhaustive and exhausting interviews with all the most important creators in the field have no equal in length, if not always in revelation. Likewise the reviews are given the space for critical, in-depth analysis that more broad forums prohibit. Thanks to Editor-in-Chief Gary Groth, the "Journal" remains uniquely focused on the artistic merits of the medium...
...list goes on, into the obscure nether-world of comicdom where mere Comic Peasants are hopelessly lost: Swamp Thing, Weird War Tales, Dragon Lord, Moon Knight, Kazar the Savage, Scalphunter, Ms. Marvel, Phoenix, the Black Panther, Captain Canuck (published by "Comely Comix" in Manitoba, Canada), and Doctor Strange--doing combat in "Reality...
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