Word: graphically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sharp and graphic as the differences over the Middle East may be, they're hardly the only show in town. Everyone from Latinos to Gypsies is pressing their own legitimate grievances, and even the generic anti-globalization protestors are showing up. Screaming ironies abound: Here you'll find Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, author of a cynical pogrom to drive white farmers off the land, on "Landlessness as Racism...
...beginning with "Moby-Dick," (NBM Publishing) in September. Though I wonder about wisdom of turning America's Greatest Novel into a very slim hardcover directed at children, who am I to argue with a man who's been doing comix since the 1930s? His other book, an original graphic novel (a term he invented), "The Name of the Game," comes out in November from DC comics. It sounds like another of his patented tales of urban Jewish families learning to assimilate in the New World...
...each year. "Drawn & Quarterly Volume 4" arrives in September from Drawn & Quarterly, followed by Fantagraphic's "Blab #12" in October. "D&Q" includes classic reprints like early "Gasoline Alley" strips by Frank King, along with European and American artists. The "Blab" franchise leans on the less-comix, more graphic-arts side, with a greater avant-garde quotient. Frankly they both can feel overblown, but hi-end showcases like these need to exist...
...Binding chapbooks together into one "graphic novel" is where the real money is for many publishers, so there are lots of them. Fantagraphics has got Dan Clowes' "20th Century Eightball" (September), collecting whatever has never been collected before from his "Eightball" series; Gilbert Hernandez' "Luba in America Book 1," collecting the first five issues of "Luba" (September); and Joe Sacco's "Palestine" (September), which used to be two volumes of this war reporter's groundbreaking work. Also look out for Debbie Dreschler's wonderful coming-of-age story, "Summer of Love," which reprints the "Nowhere" series by Drawn and Quarterly...
...James Thomson, cellular biology. Watch a Web-only animated graphic detailing the process of embryonic stem-cell research...