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...there can be fun, engrossing, moving and even "inspired" religious comix. Of course, they come from Japan. For the most part, American religious comicbooks are either pious adapted bible stories handed out at Sunday school or those notorious Jack T. Chick tracts ("This Was Your Life," "Bad Bob," "Doom Town") you find left behind in ATM booths and train station waiting rooms. Surprisingly, for a country founded the exploration of religious beliefs America has yet to produce many artful, thoughtful explorations of spirituality in its comix. For that we must turn to Osamu Tezuka...
...first half of the book follows older brother Abraham, long retired, as he passes a lonely day. We see him take a bath, fix himself some tea and putter around the closed office. During all this he does something almost unseen in comix. He delivers a monologue. Nearly 70 pages long, during this strangely theatrical sequence he tells us about his sales technique, the history of the family business and his peculiar brother Simon. Essentially you are watching an old man ramble on. Whether you find this prospect alarming or enticing essentially defines your interest in this book...
...along but are necessary just to create the right mood for what you're doing." Papers fly down empty streets. A typewriter sits on a desk. People go by; things go by. Seth creates the elegiac atmosphere of an apocryphal, slow-paced past. He does it like no other comix artist, and the effect feels akin to taking a warm bath...
...considered the world's first comic strip: Rodolphe Topffer's 1839 "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck," about a despondent bachelor who perpetually fails at both love and suicide. A major revelation, in its charming way it lays the groundwork for both the jollities and existential torments of comix to come. This becomes the first in a strange triptych of early suicide-related strips. Other genre groups include fiction, journalism, biography, autobiography and as Ware says in the introduction, "the uncategorizable...
...Matt, who's autobiographical "Toronto, Ontario. Canada" details his obsessive onanism and general poor living with horrifying candor. The breakout "unknown" artist is David Heatley, who provides poignant and funny vignettes of his father in "Portrait of My Dad." Other contributor are a who's who of indy comix: Lynda Barry, the Hernandez Brothers, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, Dan Clowes, Art Spiegelman...