Daniel Clowes on ‘The Complete Eightball’
The fringes of comics fandom became aware of Daniel Clowes in the 1980s when the Chicago cartoonist's distinctive drawings began appearing in the Mad magazine-knockoff Cracked and several issues of...
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Comic book roundup: ‘Borb’ by Jason Little, others
Borb by Jason Little, Uncivilized, 98 pages, $19.95 It's odd to call Jason Little's chilling chronicle of the physical and mental debilitation of an alcoholic homeless city dweller a "comic"...
Review: ‘Days of Rage’ by Bryan Burrough
On a balmy spring day in 1971, a pair of middle-aged Manhattan patrolman, Nicholas Binetti and Thomas Curry, decided to pursue a car they saw speeding the wrong way down...
Comic book roundup: ‘Adventure Time: Candy Capers,’ more
Adventure Time: Candy Capers Mathematical Edition written by Ananth Panagariya and Yuko Ota, illustrated by Ian McGinty, KaBOOM!, 160 pages, $29.99 History is written by the winners, and comics history...
Comic book roundup: ‘Syllabus’ by Lynda Barry, more
Carl Barks' Duck by Peter Schilling Jr., Uncivilized, 122 pages, $12.95 "My cartoons weren't good," a Mickey Mouse doppelganger cheerfully declared on a recent episode of "The Simpsons." "They were...
Review: ‘Hospital Suite’ by John Porcellino
In comic books "bravery" is often a hollow word, interchangeable with "truth" and "justice," an excuse for eight pages of costumed character pummelings. But it's hard to conjure a better...
Comic book collections that pack a worthy holiday punch
Recently, a comic shop guy explained to me that hernia-inducing, unabridged dictionary-sized, hardcover reprint collections of superhero comics exist because during the holiday season there are people who know a...
Review: ‘Brothas Be, Yo Like George…’ by George Clinton with Ben Greenman
Even though George Clinton, leader of the funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic, is the architect of some of the world's most vibrant music and a man with some stories to tell, I...
Comic book roundup: ‘Cat Dad’ and more
Cat Dad, King of the Goblins By Britt Wilson, Koyama, 48 pages, $12 Kids naturally love comics; the medium is the perfect bridge between picture and chapter books, and it's...
Lowell Thompson on ‘RaceMan Answers’
In the early '90s, Lowell Thompson started calling himself RaceMan. Though the term, denoting an African-American dedicated to racial uplift, was common in the early 20th century, it confused Thompson's...