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...smart company's buy-in rather than an artist's sell-out, DC comics has just finished publishing Gilbert Hernandez' five-issue "Grip: The Strange World of Men." With his brother Jaime, Gilbert's work on "Love and Rockets" set the benchmark for an entire generation of post-underground comix artists. (They were selected as one of TIME's 21st Century Innovators.) Though the publisher better known for its superhero "properties" clearly didn't know quite what to do with it, Hernandez's "Grip" combines all the elements that have gone into making his work so celebrated...
...superhero only by dressing in a unitard with "TMCM" on the front. The top of his head explodes up and out into the shape of a giant coffee cup. Originally a tossed-off doodle, Shannon Wheeler's character first appeared in the mid-nineties and has now encompasses both comix collections and a magazine inspired by the character. "Too Much Coffee Man's Amusing Musings" (Dark Horse; $12.95; 144pp.) is the third collection of the character's antics, while "Too Much Coffee Man," the magazine (Adhesive Comics; $4.95; 64pp.) has just released its third issue...
...Much Coffee Man" the magazine is a bi-monthly humor publication with comix in it. Other than a thread of coffee-related stories, the editorial direction seems muddled. It reads like a 'zine with high production values. The latest issue includes reviews of a new line of pocket tools, drip coffee makers, and CDs, along with a few vaguely humorous essays. The centerpiece, an article about pornography videos aimed at the religious right ("Debbi Does Sodom," "The Two Marys"), makes a pretty cheeky practical joke. The comix are still the best part with contributions from Rick Geary, Graham Annable...
...forth all the time now. ... Rather than correct a drawing I'll end up scanning it in and fixing it on screen." Where he once had multiple sketches and drafts, it's now easier to keep re-manipulating and changing the work. "I actually end up writing the comix by making notes in a notebook and then working it in boxes in Quark Xpress [a layout program] before there's any artwork done so I can figure what rhythms I want and how much language can fit in a box." Has it improved his work? "No," he says...
...panel wound down with an exchange about how the events of September 11 have affected their work. Spiegelman said he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (he lives in downtown Manhattan.) He has been working out his feelings in a series of comix for the German newspaper "Die Zeit." The other panelists felt overwhelmed by the idea of dealing with the disaster. "I'm sure it can be done, but boy, the chances of falling into something that is just going to be smarmy are lethal," said Kim Deitch. "Crying superheroes," Burns derisively suggested, though just such a thing...