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• A Look at...Frank Quitely

  Warren Ellis once said "People dislike [Quitely's] art because he draws people as they are, not as we want them to be." Just so; Quitely's people, for the most part, are lumpen masses of cells. Even his superheroes fit that description, Read More... Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 5:53 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: frank quitely

• 10 Things I Love About Comics

  Here's ten things to be thankful for in comics, on this day after Thanksgiving. Hopefully you have the day off and can kick back and think about all the great things there are to love about comics and graphic novels... #10. Daredevil by Frank Miller Read More... Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 2:56 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: comic books, graphic novels

• The DC Comics Guide to Penciling Comics

  As DC Comics Guide to Penciling Comics author Klaus Janson notes at one point, inking represents a division of labor in the creation of comic book art that primarily benefits the publishers to the detriment of the penciler's artistic intent. Few pencilers Read More... Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 3:48 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: comic book art, klaus janson

• Unlikely

  I know a lot of people thiink of Spider-Man, Batman or Iron Man when they here the word "comics." Well, Jeffrey Brown's Unlikely is published by Top Shelf Productions and subtitled "How I lost my virginity," so you already know Read More... Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 7:19 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: jeffrey brown

• Promethea Book One

  The great strength of Alan Moore's America's Best Comics imprint (an offshoot of DC/Wildstorm) was that, despite mostly being the invention of one writer with many gifted artists, each of the titles was so different from every other. Tom Strong, Read More... Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 12:49 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: alan moore, promethea, america's best comics

• Jay's Days: Rise and Fall of the Pasta Shop Lothario

  Canadian cartoonist Jason Marcy is neurotic, paralyzed by his worries over fatherhood, dental problems, and his tendency to run off at the mouth at inconvenient times. In Rise and Fall of the Pasta Shop Lothario , he can't hide his more likable, human Read More... Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 6:35 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novels, jason marcy, autobiographical comics

• 5 Great Graphic Novels from Oni Press

  There was a time when Oni Press seemed to publish mainly Jay and Silent Bob comic books to keep Kevin Smith fans busy between movies; that's all changed a lot in the past decade, though, as the imprint has become one of the most diverse graphic novel Read More... Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:38 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: oni press

• 5 Great Graphic Novels from Drawn and Quarterly

  Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly has, for the past few years, been neck and neck with Fantagraphics Books for the title "Most Vital Graphic Novel Imprint in North America." They publish some of the most progressive cartoonists on the planet, Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:08 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novels, drawn and quarterly

• 5 Great Graphic Novels from Top Shelf Productions

  Top Shelf Productions is the joint brainchild Chris Staros and Brett Warnock; the two came together after some early small-press publishing efforts to create one of the most impressive graphic novel imprints of the '90s right through to today. Their Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:45 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novels, top shelf productions

• 5 Great Graphic Novels from Fantagraphics Books

  Introduction When you hear the term "comic books," your first thought might be of brightly-colored superheroes flying through the skies, swooping down from time to time to right wrongs, stave off alien invasions, or head off a crisis that threatens Read More... Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 6:10 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novels, Fantagraphics

• Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko

  Steve Ditko is one of the most important and most influential North American cartoonists in history, and the past couple of years have seen quite a few of his older works brought back into print, including his Captain Atom material in DC's mostly Read More... Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 8:59 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: Marvel Comics, steve ditko

• Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

  The ACME Novelty Library from Fantagraphics Books was one of the most critically acclaimed comics in the 1990s and early '00s. These days it's released as a yearly series of hardcovers (the new one shipped to stores this week, in fact) instead Read More... Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:18 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: acme novelty library, chris ware

• American Elf Celebrates 10 Years

  American Elf : The Sketchbook Diaries of James Kochalka (published by Top Shelf Productions ) is a gigantic collection, complete and unabridged, featuring the first five years of Kochalka's daily diary strips, giving perhaps the most complete and Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:15 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: James Kochalka

• Steve Ditko's Space Wars

  Steve Ditko is the wonky iconoclast of comic art, his vivid cartooning bringing a strange life to much of the material he has illustrated over the many decades of his career. While best known to casual readers as the original artist and co-creator of Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:02 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: steve ditko, charlton comics

• We3

  I probably talk too much about the ability of the comics artform to touch on our humanity; yet, locked as we are inside our own heads for a century or so, each of us longs to reach out and touch the life of another. We long for companionship, interaction, Read More... Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 5:22 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: Grant Morrison, frank quitely, we3