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• Grant Morrison's "The Filth"

  The Filth at first seems like a narrative black hole, infinitely dense and powerful, but very hard to perceive by just looking at it straight on. There's a sense that there's a whole other graphic novel composed of scenes cut out of this one. Read More... Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 8:27 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novel, The Filth, Grant Morrison

• Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

  The very best graphic novels ever created -- a category Alison Bechdel 's Fun Home fits comfortably, assuredly into -- are gripping, immersive and literate. As I experienced Bechdel's Fun Home , I found myself comparing its masterful blending Read More... Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 2:41 PM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novel, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

• 100 Must-Read Graphic Novels

  According to Eddie Campbell , "anyone who thinks there are more than a few dozen so-called 'graphic novels' worth reading is an idiot." Sorry, Eddie, I beg to differ. Here's my list of 100 Must-Read Graphic Novels. Funny part is, Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:34 PM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novel

• Problem Comics: The Red Star: Sword of Lies #3

  I remember reading the original Red Star trade paperback collection years ago; if I recall correctly, it was published then by Image Comics. It's not anymore, now it's published by Archangel Studios, which both forgets to put a price anywhere Read More... Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 9:56 AM by alandaviddoane | 2 Comments Tags: comic books, graphic novel, red star

• Pricing Yourself Out of the Market

  Is $125.00 too much for an artcomix hardcover? I've asked myself that question a lot since the price point of Kramers Ergot #7 was announced. Even with a huge lineup of great talent, more than $1.25 a page seems like a lot to pay, especially in the Read More... Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 9:24 AM by alandaviddoane | 1 Comments Tags: comic book, graphic novel, kramers ergot

• Highly Recommended: The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard

  There will not be a more inventive or funnier comic book released in calendar year 2008 than The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard by Eddie Campbell and Dan Best, published by First Second . And by "calendar year 2008," of course, I mean, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:19 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novel, eddie campbell, first second

• Waiting for the Trade

  The cartoonist Frank Santoro -- whose Cold Heat comic book series suspended publication after four issues due to low sales, and will see completion as a full-length graphic novel incorporating the four issues plus the rest of the material that would have Read More... Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 8:49 AM by alandaviddoane | 1 Comments Tags: comic book, graphic novel, Frank Santoro, Gilbert Hernandez

• Thunderbolts by Warren Ellis Vol. 1: Faith in Monsters

  I wonder if Marvel was thinking of Warren Ellis's Stormwatch when they chose him to write this particular incarnation of Thunderbolts ? The set-up of a group of somewhat unhinged loners trying to cohere together as a team reminds me of Ellis's Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:10 PM by alandaviddoane | 1 Comments Tags: graphic novel, thunderbolts, warren ellis

• Jack Kirby's Silver Star

  Jack Kirby's latter-day work could be wildly uneven, but Silver Star holds more than a little of the brilliance that informed New Gods and the other Fourth World titles, and his earlier Marvel work. Silver Star himself is one of a number of members Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:41 AM by alandaviddoane | 1 Comments Tags: Jack Kirby, graphic novel

• "Trains are...Mint" Reinvents the Graphic Novel

  For all those who dismiss autobiographical comics as trite, facile, samey, whatever the complaint -- here's the high concept of Trains are...Mint . The author, Oliver East , goes for walks from train station to train station near his home in Manchester, Read More... Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:39 AM by alandaviddoane | 0 Comments Tags: graphic novel, Trains are...Mint