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Jason Hall and Matt Kindt need to get a hold of themselves. To get their graphic novella and comix debut, "Pistolwhip," published they made their own "mock" print run and shopped it around the San Diego comicbook convention. They also handed out P.R. giveaways like trading cards of the characters, a paperdoll cutout with outfits, and a novelty cigarette. Many people assumed the book had actually been published...
...Just get a load of the cover: a trompe l'oeil reproduction of an old-fashioned radio with the title all but hidden as a manufacturing label. Not your usual comix cover. Flipping it open you expect to find a catalogue of radio parts, but instead get sucked in by the new-old-fashioned penwork of Matt Kindt. He relies on just a few, expressive strokes and flat blocks of black ink to create the art deco world of "Pistolwhip." Nearly abstract slashes and squiggles organize themselves into characters and place, often seen from wild points of view. One panel...
...Pistolwhip" gives you plenty for your money. The design alone outclasses many books put out by more experienced comix creators. Matt Kindt and Jason Hall should be watched, if they don't exhaust themselves first...
...since Art Spiegelman's "Raw," during the 1980s, has New York City played any significant role in alternative comix. Perhaps because it's home to the mainstream industry (Marvel and DC are both located there) most of alternative comix' history has been born elsewhere. So it's nice to see a couple of new comix with ties to the Big Apple...
...Neither Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," nor Dean Haspiel's "Opposable Thumbs" are the ground-breaking comix work of "Raw." But they nicely represent two kinds of New York experience: urban opportunity and urban decay...