Word: comix
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Like other American women after the war many of the cartoonists lost their jobs, just barely managing to find work in the burgeoning romance comicbook genre. By the late 1960s, inspired by, but excluded from, the all-male "underground" scene, women-centric comix began appearing simultaneously with the likes of "Ms." magazine. Finally, the last chapter provides an excellent primer on current women-created books, though it stops short of being a critical survey...
...lecture, titled “Comix 101: Some Notes on the History and Evolution of Comic Art,” covered the history of comics from early comic strip artists like Rodolphe Töpffer through Charles Schultz and finally to modern artists such as Chris Ware and Spiegelman himself...
...genius," maestro George Szell reportedly said about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The quote describes comix artist Chris Ware as well. Author of last year's critically-acclaimed graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," Ware has finally come out with issue fifteen in his comicbook series "The Acme Novelty Library." After a year and a half of waiting, rest assured that his reputation(s) remain intact...
...Even if you don't like the jokes, you can always marvel at the design of the thing. "Acme Novelty Library" takes its title literally. You never get just comix. This issue has a special insert on cardstock of a cut-out, constructible miniature nickelodeon. It would probably work too. Elsewhere he fills an entire giant-sized page with a joke treatise, printed in a phone-book-sized font, on the different types of collectors. As always, even the indicia gets the Ware treatment, in that typically fussy prose of his: "Also, please note, should you be a German...
Like a hand-knit sweater from a beloved aunt, Will Eisner's "The Name of the Game" arrives for the holidays. Eisner, possibly the most respected comix artist alive, has been producing sophisticated, progressive work since the 1930s. Back in 1977 he invented the term "graphic novel" to sell "A Contract with God" because book publishers would have run screaming from "comics." Each new work feels like a gift, created with the craft that only comes from a lifetime of experience. Yet, like the sweater, it breaks your heart that you don't love it more...