December 2010
16 posts
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TWC News with ADD [123110]: The Fury of the...
* Longtime comic book writer, creator rights advocate and industry observer Tony Isabella explains the methodology he is using in his continuing career autobiography. He’s about to get into contentious territory, so it’s good that he is letting readers know exactly what he is thinking and how he is laying out the facts he is presenting. Having known Tony for years and having some small...
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Retailer Profile: Comic Depot, Saratoga Springs,...
Comic Depot opened six years ago along a fairly rural stretch of Route 9N north of Saratoga Springs, NY, and I’ve had a pull list there for nearly as long as they’ve existed. Although my list is small, I rely on the shop for special orders (mostly hardcovers and trades), supplies like bags and boards, and good conversation with the owner, Darren Carrara. Darren recently closed his...
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TWC News with ADD [123010]
* Matt Seneca runs down ten comics he loved in 2010. Dude’s got good taste in comics, although it would take a profound and unlikely reshuffling of the laws of physics to ever convince me to read a Deadpool comic book. * Tom Spurgeon interviews Dylan Horrocks, as his holiday interview series just gets more and more essential. * Tony Isabella — one of the most outspoken and right-on...
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TWC News with ADD [122910]
Welcome to a special “Understanding Comics” edition of TWC News with ADD. * At The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon interviews Jason Miles, “Operations/Editorial” for Fantagraphics Books. Miles explains the title and discusses publishing and his own experiences in comics. * At World Famous Comics, Tony Isabella discusses the long history of DC Comics destroying the lives of...
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Christopher Allen Reviews Adele Blanc-Sec Vol. 1
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Vol. 1
Writer/Artist - Jacques Tardi
Publisher - Fantagraphics Books. $24.99 USD
Fantagraphics continues their collection of translated Tardi with this fourth release, which collects the first two albums of what would become a celebrated French literary heroine. The stories collected here are Pterror over Paris and The Eiffel Tower Demon, both of...
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Entitled Punditry
I don’t post often about comics publisher sales and such, but Fantagraphics is having a good one, with 40% off some great books from Gilbert Hernandez, Peter Bagge, George Herriman, C. Tyler, Jim Woodring and more. It’s three days only, starting today, so basically you’ve got through Wednesday. The books in question are here.
So DC Comics is going back to the $2.99 price point...
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2011: The Year In Comics I Want
Time Magazine’s Techland has a new post up by Douglas Wolk running down a handful of 2011 graphic novels of note…and it’s interesting to me that although only two titles on there will be on my must-buy list (Mister Wonderful by Dan Clowes and Paying For It by Chester Brown), both are really on my must-buy list, like, I’d skip a meal or two to make sure I have them. In...
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TWC News with ADD [122310]
* World Without Journalista, Day 01: Farewells and thoughts on the end of Dirk Deppey’s TCJ era from Johanna, Kleefeld, and Noah. There’s a Facebook page to register your appreciation and share your thoughts about Dirk and Journalista. * My, that’s a big Bone. * Awesome Fantagraphics warehouse find: Two Jack Jackson collections. I have God’s Bosom and it’s fantastic....
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Always Leave Them Wanting More
Leave it to Dirk Deppey to close out one of the very best comics blogs ever with one of his most essential posts ever. In his final Journalista, Deppey provides the usual significant links of the day and then goes on to create the most relevant, concise and useful list of comics-related links that could possibly be generated right at this very moment. And then he makes me cry just a little by...
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Thanks and Good Luck to Dirk Deppey
After many years as one of the finest comics bloggers on the internet, Journalista’s Dirk Deppey has been laid off from Fantagraphics. In the world of comic book blogging, there is Neilalien, there is Tom Spurgeon, and there is Dirk Deppey. And then there’s everybody else. I know I speak for just about the entire comics blogosphere when I wish Dirk the very best in whatever he chooses...
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TWC News with ADD [122010]
Hello, Happy Holidays and welcome to what might very well be the last TWC News with ADD (a double entendre if ever there was one) of calendar year 2010. I was fascinated to note that, a decade in, people finally started saying the name of this year in short form, as we did in the 1900s, (“Twenty-Ten” instead of dragging out the entire year as “Two-Thousand-And-Ten”)....
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Christopher Allen Reviews John Byrne's Next Men #1
John Byrne’s Next Men #1 Writer/Artist - John Byrne Publisher - IDW Publishing. $3.99 USD
I’ll give John Byrne some credit here: to return to a famously unfinished series after 15 plus years is pretty ballsy. Those who never liked it or have come to not like Byrne or his work in that time are going to be very difficult to win over, while many of those who liked the series may have...
“It seems to me that there used to be more of a “general consensus” attitude...”
– Frank Santoro
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Christopher Allen and Alan David Doane Review The...
Note: Even though we’ve been working on Comic Book Galaxy together for a decade, Chris Allen and I didn’t co-write our first article together until 2004. We did it a couple more times and then laid off until now, because nothing was good enough to rouse the sleeping giant of our two towering comics intellects working in tandem (and also because we were deeply ashamed of the effete logo...
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“The history of the comics industry is the history of creators being screwed...”
– Tony Isabella, 01 December 2010
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Don't Let Your Noble Poobah Hardin
DC Universe: Legacies #6 & 7
Writer - Len Wein
Artists - Jerry Ordway, George Perez, Dan Jurgens, Keith Giffen, Brian Bolland, Scott Kolins
Publisher - DC Comics
Aside from one of Giffen’s goofiest styles on a ridiculous Superboy/LOSH backup story, and the ponderous, out-of-place stylings of Kolins on the framing sequences, this series has had some really nice art, particularly for...
