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...size, full-color work about God, man and comic strips. The verso displays Gary Panter's giant mandala of cartoon and fine-art characters through the ages. Ingeniously, when wrapped around the book, the poster forms a pocket on the front and back in which sit - surprise! - two mini-comix by John Porcellino and Ron Rege Jr. In a single package, "McSweeney's" explodes conventional notions of what comics should look like...
Jens Harder's "Leviathan" (NBM/Comics Lit; 144pp) has an international flavor. Created by a German artist and released on both sides of the Atlantic, it has been written in the boundless language of wordless comix, except for the chapter headings that appear in four different languages. It features the creature of the title, a giant sperm whale, as it swims through disparate oceans, encountering man and beast through the ages. Foregoing a traditional story, it reads like Neptune's dream after a night of bad sushi. Harder depicts the whale as a fearsome monster, a silent behemoth that rules...
This weekend marks Memorial Day in the U.S. and the official beginning of summer leisure. A quartet of marine-themed comix, one about a whale, one about octopi and two about fish, are hitting comic and bookstore shelves at the same time. As catch of the day, some are better than others. TIME.comix acts as you professional taster, or, uh, reader...
...fish story you will never forget, try as you might, is Junji Ito's "Gyo" (Viz; 200 pp.; $12.95). Ito specializes in horror comix, a genre virtually wiped out in America since EC comics had to stop publishing "Tales from the Crypt" and its sister titles in the early 1950s. Ito's chilling stories have some of the oddest premises in the genre. "Uzumaki," published in the U.S. by Viz in 2002, featured a town visited by a plague of spirals. "Gyo" starts out with Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori on vacation at the coastal city of Okinawa...
...nothing, from his difficulty achieving an orgasm to the careless way Allisyn distances herself from his affections. He works in a scratchy, unpolished drawing style that looks like something put down in haste right after the event. The rawness and immediacy may be illusory - even the most crudely crafted comix page takes time to organize and draw - but they make the actions seem more real. Call it comix verite. Similar to the work of such documentary filmmakers as Frederick Wiseman and the Maysles brothers, Brown eschews any sort of narration or insight into what the characters are thinking. Instead, Brown...