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Category: Comics

  • Hergé (Georges Remi)

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    You will occasionally hear me rant about the misuse of the term “graphic novel” in reference to trade paperback collections of comic books in America. (Watchmen is a graphic novel, Akira is a graphic novel. The last six issues of The Uncanny X-Men collected into a squarebound paperback isn’t any kind of a novel. It…

  • Boneville Reloaded

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    Jeff Smith’s Bone is one of the best examples of an independent comic breaking out into mainstream awareness on the basis of sheer quality. It’s a wonderfully drawn, imaginative, involving and beautifully realized comic series that has been collected in a series of books, translated into editions all over the world, printed in popular magazines,…

  • Flight 3

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    Yesterday was Wednesday, the day when most comic shops get their new comics for the week. I stopped into Between Books, the unique little bookstore/comics shop in Delaware where I buy my comics, and was delighted to find a shiny new copy of Flight 3 waiting for me. Flight 3 is the third and much-anticipated…

  • Sky-Doll in Heavy Metal

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    For those familiar with Italian comics artist Alessandro Barbucci and writer/colorist Barbara Canepa there is a special treat in the current (Summer 2006) issue of Heavy Metal Magazine. The issue is a special that collects all three of the French comics albums of Barbucci and Canepa’s Sky-Doll series and presents them together, conveniently translated into…

  • Matthew Woodson

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    I really enjoy the work of young artists, whether still in art school, recently graduated or on their own independent course of learning. There is a particular appeal to that part of an artist’s development when their style and approach has not yet “hardened” into a set path. Illustrator and comics artist Matthew Woodson is…

  • Tim Hildebrandt 1939-2006

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    It’s difficult to separate the work of fantasy and science fiction artist Tim Hildebrandt from that of his brother Greg. For the greater part of their careers they have collaborated on most of their work. Word has gone around the web that Tim Hildebrandt died Sunday (June 11) at the age of 67 of complications…