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Thursday, October 9 2008
By Erik Hinton
Dahl traps readers between his incredible powers of persuasion and his equally well-trained powers of self-deprecation. The entire experience leaves you saying, “Oh yes I do hate that about America…Oh, I hate myself for thinking that.”
Thursday, September 25 2008
By William Gatevackes
As you can imagine, the Discworld novels are tricky ones to adapt into any form, yet beg -- almost scream -- to make the jump to comic books.
Tuesday, September 23 2008
By Sam Gafford
One of the biggest benefits to comics is the ability to tell a story completely through pictures. Few artists take as much advantage of this aspect as Thomas Ott.
Tuesday, September 16 2008
By Jim Bush
Comics history and scholarship has been improved with Bell's Strange and Stranger, a book that is likely to be an important part of understanding one of the key creators at the dawn of the Silver Age.
Tuesday, August 26 2008
By Charles Moss
These art forms are so commonplace in popular culture that it is easy for the general public to take advantage of what actually went into creating them.
Tuesday, August 12 2008
By Jeremy Estes
Yoshihiro Tatsumi's work is aimed at an adult audience, and his stories present a perspective that can be challenging for a reader. It is dark and disturbing, but definitely worth the trip.
Tuesday, July 29 2008
By Jeremy Estes
Briggs' succinctly and effectively depicts the crisis of confidence that comes when staring down a career.
Thursday, July 24 2008
By William Gatevackes
Krutcher and the world where everyone can fly returns; more of the same, and that's both a good and a bad thing.
Tuesday, July 15 2008
By Chris Barsanti
Mauldin was a chronicler of the everyday grime and misery that was the life of the average G.I., "These strange, mud-caked creatures who fight the war."
Tuesday, July 8 2008
By William Gatevackes
This has bite, but doesn’t draw blood -- there's too much intelligence and logic to be totally mean.
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Tuesday, September 23 2008
By Chris Barsanti
Without a couple of recognizably fallible and ordinary men like Harvey Dent and Commissioner Gordon at its center, The Dark Knight would ultimately be nothing more than an exceptionally well-tooled and smartly-acted thriller.
Friday, September 5 2008
By Charles Moss
Hollywood has finally discovered what comic book fans have known all along: superheroes serve as brightly-colored, two-dimensional extensions of ourselves.
Monday, February 25 2008
By Monte Williams
The appeal, the madness of Ross' painting is that it makes a scene involving a fight between spandex-clad do-gooders seem almost as important as Rockwell's depiction of the first step to end racial segregation.
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