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...Hammett's Sam Spade books, it would have something of the resonance this Tardi/Malet team has for this work. Malet's Nestor Burma, detective de choc, or ace detective, appears in multiple hardboiled volumes and has been adapted to film and television. Tardi, like Crumb, became a major comix creator during the 1970s, though unlike Crumb, he didn't have to go underground to do it. Art Spiegelman's forward to the book describes Tardi as "one of the single most influential comix artists to come out of the French adult comics revolution of the 70's." In spite...
...Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a trio of superpowered fast-food products pursue get-rich-quick schemes (luring pilgrims to a "sacred oil stain" in the neighbor's driveway) and avoid crime fighting (except, for instance, when they catch pot-smoking aliens tapping into their TV cable). According to co-creator Matt Maiellaro, budget constraints posed a problem in animating Meatwad--a lovable, dim-witted lump of hamburger who has the power to change his form. "We could only afford to have him animate into three different shapes. But," he says, "it worked for his character. It would never occur...
...Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical, Inc.; 2003) The key founder of the Japanese comics style, the creator of Astro Boy helped turn an entire nation into comics fans. Though it first appeared in Japan in the early 1970s, Tezuka's imaginative version of the life of the Buddha has only now appeared in English. "Buddha" exemplifies Tezuka's playful style and deeply humane themes in a work for older audiences. Full Review
...identified as a "graphic novel" was the 1976 publication of "Beyond Time and Again," by George Metzger, where the term "graphic novel" appears on the title page and on the dust jacket flaps. There had been other efforts at "graphic storytelling" before. Eisner mentions the work of Lynd Ward [creator of the wordless novel "Gods' Man" in 1929] in his introduction, for instance. Milt Gross did an entire narrative in pictures with no words: "He Done Her Wrong" in 1930. Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin produced "His Name Is? Savage," [a book-length comic,] in 1968. "A Contract with...
It’s not that creator Robert Smigel misleads his audience: There’s no bait-and-switch in this supersized Alpo can. Anyone who has seen the canine puppet rant and rave on NBC along with Conan O’Brien ’85 knows exactly what the album entails. True to form, it’s a lewd, juvenile hour of gruff-voiced comedic diatribes, almost exclusively on the subject of sexual relations between man’s best friends. Sometimes Triumph sings, sometimes he makes prank calls and sometimes he just shouts...