samurai jack #2 : yee haw!
sex criminals #3 : sex. crime. letter columns.
daredevil #33 : looking good, jason copland. looking good.
the fifth beatle : a handsome hardcover bio on brian epstein.
delusional : gorgeous, odd, warm, dark, touching, withdrawn…the graphic & sequential work of farel dalrymple.
–chris stevens
copra #11 : the snazziest issue yet of michel fiffe’s killer action book.
manara erotica #3 : dark horse continues the hardcover collections of milo manara’s gorgeous guys & gals. no one’s ever drawn better women.
Hey guys I’ve got this wild idea — let’s all drink too much wine and make crazy drawings!
On Tuesday, October 22nd at 7:00pm, join Locust Moon and Drawn & Quarterly for an evening with cartoonist Peter Bagge to celebrate the launch of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, a dazzling, accessible biography of the activist, educator, nurse, mother, and protofeminist who founded Planned Parenthood. Bagge will be presenting a slideshow focusing on Sanger’s social and political activism and how Woman Rebel came together, sharing original sample pages from his book.
Woman Rebel presents the life of the outspoken, driven Margaret Sanger from her birth in the late nineteenth century to her death after the invention of the birth control pill. Balancing humor and respect, Bagge makes Sanger whole and human, showing how her flaws fueled her fiery activism just as much as her compassionate nature did. Sanger’s legacy is still incredibly relevant, important, and inspiring.
You can RSVP to the event on Facebook.
An incredibly dynamic DYNAMO cover by Mr. Wood.
Some beautiful McCay illustrations & book design from a little-known Hearst-published propaganda book. 1929.
The full, glorious wrap-around cover.
McCay was working in his standard Herald editorial-illustration style, which leads me to assume this book was authored by Arthur Brisbane.
The book also features cartoonier illustrations from Hearst cartoonist and friend of McCay, F. Opper.
God in the machine.
THIS WEEK’S ROUND-UP IS A TOUCH SPOILER-Y, BE WARNED!
society is nix : sunday press continues to unearth and preserve the comic strips that laid the foundation for an art form and to present them in the grand fashion the material so richly deserves. chris ware said it pretty well: this is a mind-blowing portable museum retrospective of the raw, tangled ferocity and frustration that went into the making of America.
justice league #23 : i’m a sucker for the crime syndicate. blame it on wolfman & perez and reading crisis on infinite earths when i was 9.
wolverine and the x-men #35 : this issue is a big smile. bradshaw & aaron wrap up the hellfire kids storyline, things go bamf in the night, and it’s the return of…BROO!
think tank #9 : a new arc begins in this smart military/science/political romp.
konga : steve ditko’s entire run, 300 pages, on this b-movie blast of a riff on king kong. goofy as shit and gloriously drawn, this is a gorgeous book.
–chris stevens
Even the master can get stuck sometimes.
In the hands of Bill Sienkiewicz, a roller-disco superhero cash-in becomes high art.
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