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...Kramer's Ergot" #5 (Gingko Press; 320 pages), edited by Sammy Harkham, also has a jewel-like quality. It's so aesthetically pure that it doesn't even print a price on the book. (It's $30). Appearing only annually, last year's giant issue established the series as the premier showcase for emerging/edgy talent by insisting on the seriousness of their endeavors with its sumptuous production values. (See TIME.comix review.) Printed in full color on thick paper stock at a large size, "Kramer's Ergot" allows artists who would otherwise only know inexpensive reproduction to see their work monumentalized...
...Though it has no stated theme, a number of the contributions to "Kramer's Ergot" #5 share a curious interest in the nature of religion and faith. Kevin Huizenga, a major emerging talent whose first solo book, "Or Else," has just been published by Drawn and Quarterly, contributes the best of the more traditional narrative offerings. "Jeepers Jacobs," beautifully rendered in the pastels of dappled summer sunlight, effortlessly mixes the comedy of human foibles with the debate over the existence of hell. Among other things, its thoughtful portrait of a religious conservative ingeniously rebuts the divisive and absurd language...
...ROUGH EDGES: a page from C.F.'s "Castor and Pollux" in "Kramer's Ergot...
...year of excellent anthologies both "Kramer's Ergot" and "Scheherazade" stand out as exceptional. Anthologies live or die by their editor's hand. "Kramer's Ergot" #5 and "Scheherazade" both provide smartly guided rides through some of comix' unexplored and gorgeous hinterlands...
...Kramer's Ergot," "Project: Telstar" and "SPX 2003" can be found at superior comic stores...