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Finally, after nearly twenty years, Art Spiegelman has returned to comix, generating the same excitement among the comixcenti as Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's long-delayed final film brought to cinephiles. Though Spiegelman's name may not be as well known to the general public as Kubrick's, his 1986 Holocaust memoir Maus, featuring cats as Nazis and mice as Jews, remains the most recognized graphic novel ever published. In spite of this, Spiegelman became, as he says in the introduction to his new book, "like some farmer being paid not to grow wheat," writing essays and doing cover...
...book is affably illustrated by graphic novelist Kyle Baker. The comixcenti may sniff at its simple layout, but neophytes will appreciate its readability. And though it lacks the racial zings of, say, Dave Chappelle, it manages to land some clever social jabs. Hollywood is unlikely to have told this tale with more punch--if it told...
...fleshing it out to a full graphic novel. The artist known only as Rebecca, author of the porno series "Housewives at Play," is actually Fantagraphics' highest-paid author, with sales at least equaling that of FG's top-selling "legit" cartoonist Dan Clowes. Who knew? Though some hard-core comixcenti object to its crassness, I find the San Diego con's big-tent mixture of graphic literature with its more commercial relations, video games, movies and toys to be a refreshing re-contextualization of indy artist's work. While smaller, alty-friendly cons like the Small Press Expo...
...world." To achieve that, he keeps things small. Working out of a messy but colorfully decorated former dentist's office, he employs two full-time staff members and publishes only about 20 books a year. His pickiness and critical success have earned D&Q a monster reputation among the comixcenti and--with increased exposure in regular bookstores--the general public. In 2003, Oliveros says, D&Q racked up $715,000 in revenue, five times as much...
...intelligence and thoroughness of the book's selections should appeal to novices and comixcenti alike. Several of the works have appeared elsewhere, such as the excerpt of Chester Brown's "Louis Riel," the 2003 biography of a 19th century rabble rouser, or the snippet of Charles Burns' inky teenage horror comedy "Black Hole." Other superstars have brand new work. Robert Crumb, the underground pooh-bah, provides one of his patented war-of-the-sexes pieces, "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," where a dull nebbish attempts to woo a distracted, hard-nippled Amazon-like woman. Further on appears the wordless examination...