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...Raeburn manages to combine murder, drug abuse, rape, torture and comix criticism in the latest installment of his yearly journal "The Imp" (self-published; $20; 112 pp.) With each issue focused on a singular artist or genre - Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and the religious tracts of Jack T. Chick have each been a subject - this year's book examines Mexico's historietas. Depicting every imaginable perversity these small, square booklets exist in a cultural twilight zone. While immensely popular, they are considered basura (trash) by everyone involved, including the people who make them, and therefore utterly ignored. Like a twisted...
Like the gonzo comix critic he is, Dan Raeburn went to the source, Mexico City, to learn more about these nasty little tomes. There he meets the creators who churn out 80 pages a week(!) for each title. A true cultural critic, Raeburn folds interviews, deep research and travel into an essay form that uses the little comix as a lens to examine everything from Latin-American history to the different uses of irony across cultures. In particular Raeburn uses the historietas to get at the Mexican way of life. For example, though sold openly on every street corner, these...
...comix criticism ever becomes sexy it will be Dan Raeburn and his "Imp" series that make it so. Mainstream cultural critics could take lessons from Raeburn's obsessive and sharp journal. This latest examination of Mexico's "underground" comix goes way beyond its seemingly obscure subject, becoming a funny, informative and thoughtful treatise that will appeal to anyone interested in world pop culture...
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...
...Beyond Moore's fascinating story, the Kabbalah series represents a tour de force of studio comix making. J.H. Williams III does the underlying pencils, filling the panels with surreal details like walls that have bricks standing up on little legs and extracting themselves. One of the hallmarks of the entire "Promethea" series has been the consistently innovative and fun layouts. One double-page spread has Promethea endlessly looping around a Mobius strip. For this particular arc Williams had a new challenge: imitating wildly divergent mediums, from engraving to wood carving to watercolor with nearly entire issues dedicated to one motif...