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Shannon B. Maene ’07 creates an alternate universe for the middle-school students through a role-playing game known as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Hired by the after-school program, Maene acts as the game’s “Dungeon Master” (DM) once a week for about 12 kids...
...Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim's "Dungeon" has all it takes to be as big here as in Europe - except maybe the support of a broad, comix-reading audience. Too bad. It's one of the best comedy / adventure comics in print, filled with amusing characters, great visual imagination and involving stories. You should let it take you away on the back of a hipplodontus...
...French comic artists that include the likes of David B., author of "Epileptic". (Sfar, whose graphic novel "The Rabbi's Cat" will soon be published by Pantheon, was recently chosen as one of TIME's four comic Innovators.) While both contributors take credit for the writing and art of "Dungeon," Trondheim appears to be the principle draftsman. Wonderfully printed in full color, the special visual style of the books contribute as much to the fun as the smart writing (translated by Joe Johnson, who keeps it cheeky). Filled with details, as the way the Keeper's pipe smoke always coils...
...Volume 2 of Sfar and Trondheim's "Dungeon...
Overseas the "Dungeon" franchise, which began in 1998 under the title "Donjon," has expanded into more than twenty volumes, with more coming, many of them spin-offs of the original series. These first two volumes of the American "Dungeon" represent the four chapters of the series known in Europe as the "Zenith" group. This Fall NBM will next publish the series that takes place 100 years prior to "Zenith," followed by the series that takes place after "Zenith." Readers may be reminded of Jeff Smith's gigantic "Bone" series (see TIME.comix review), which coincidentally is now being reprinted in full...