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Walt and Skeezix, Book 2 5 reviews
Frank King
Drawn and Quarterly, 2006
pure americana
+ The contining reprinting of this classic strip
+ Comics Junkie
+ One of the all-time great comics
+ Walt and Skeezix, Book 2 by Frank King
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He Done Her Wrong5 reviews
Milt Gross
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
MILT GROSS: The Cartoonist's Cartoonist
+ YOU HAVE TO LOVE THIS ONE!
+ Welcome back, indeed, to a classic of goofiness
+ The Best!
+ Who needs words
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Billy Hazelnuts4 reviews
Tony Millionaire
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
I am a scientist, Eugene, not a starry-headed romantic.
+ Another Winner for Tony Millionaire
+ The guy we have to worry about is that skeleton-robot I made from the meat grinder when I was insane...
+ A swashbuckling good time
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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book One15 reviews
Tove Jansson
Drawn and Quarterly, 2006
Delightful
+ Utterly Charming
+ Beautifly published book
+ Tales of pleasantly foolish innocence
+ It's too whimsical and funny to limit to younger audiences
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Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume 116 reviews
Chester Gould, Ashley Wood
IDW Publishing, 2006
Long Overdue
+ The face of crime is evil
+ Cops and Robbers, Comics Style
+ About time!
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Passionella and Other Stories (Feiffer : the Collected Works) 1 review
Jules Feiffer
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
Feiffer
I bought this book because I'm a Feiffer fan.
The book basically illustrates the more recent Feiffer work, which is a George Bernard Shaw type of satirical work, and throws in some older cartoons as well.
I did not like the play writing or the illustrated fable.
I much prefer the old ...
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Curses 5 reviews
Kevin Huizenga
Drawn and Quarterly, 2006
Brilliant and simple
+ A good one, this.
+ An Evening with Glenn Ganges
As poignant and dead center an evocation of suburban life at the turn of the millennium as anyone could hope for. Sort of a post-modern O'Henry (though it's much more fun than that makes it sound), Huizenga skewers the absurdities and obsessions of modern life without ever losing his compassion ...
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The Fate of the Artist 2 reviews
Eddie Campbell
First Second, 2006
The Smartest Man in Comics
+ It's a keeper!
A pleasure to read. This book is a very clever and very funny piece of autobiography and formal (as in "form over function" not "fancy") experimentation.
I was dubious about Campbell going color, especially since he seems to favor a washed-out "dirty paintbox" palette. The excerpts I saw on the ...
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Phoenix, Volume 8 (Phoenix)2 reviews
Osamu Tezuka
VIZ Media LLC, 2006
Age of Tears
The civil war continues ruthlessly as the two sides fight each other and themselves. Lives are wasted and madness reigns as both sides seek the Phoenix and its immortality-granting blood. Its failure to do anything for anybody does not stop the search. Friends become foes again and again and ...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic92 reviews
Alison Bechdel
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Rich and impressive - doesn't feel skimpy like other graphic novels
+ Great Book, Worth Reading
+ The complexities of identity
+ Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Jimbo's Inferno
Gary Panter
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
The punk art legend sends his best-loved character into Dante's Inferno . "Don't try to pass a pop quiz on Dante's Hell based on a reading of this comic," warns Gary Panter. "It won't work. Even though the comic is engorged with Dante's Hell and though Jimbo mouths a super-condensed version of what happens in The Infierno , canto by canto, characters are fused, actions inverted, parodied, ...
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Amphigorey Again9 reviews
Edward Gorey
Harcourt, 2006
Edward Gorey does it again
+ Distant, mysterious, and disjoint
+ Gorey's last breath - Rate ***1/2
+ Gorey just gets Better and Better
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Krazy & Ignatz 1937-1938: Shifting Sands Dusts Its Cheeks in Powdered Beauty (Krazy Kat)4 reviews
George Herriman
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
"I am sitting here alone in my pretty cell of stone..."
+ Another blast from the past
+ The Series Continues
+ The Kat lives on...
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Popeye Vol. 1: "I Yam What I Yam"20 reviews
E. C. Segar
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
Excellent production does material justice
+ a great volume! :)
+ Popeye At His Very Best
+ Ecce Popeye!
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Buddha, Volume 8: Jetavana (Buddha)1 review
Osamu Tezuka
Vertical, 2005
Buddha's Life Explained in Japanese Manga style
This is the last of the 8-volume "Buddha" series. This graphical biography of a religious leader is great and understandable in the Japanese manga style. There is also scenes of non-sequitar humor injected by the artist as "comic relief". Readers of all ages will love all 8 volumes.
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Ninja1 review
Brian Chippendale
Gingko Press, 2006
Amazing, Disturbing, Original Stuff
I've been following Brian Chippendale's musical career for several years now, and I'm a big fan of his work, especially with Mindflayer and his Black Pus projects. When I saw this book, I thought I'd check it out, and I'm glad I did. I wasn't sure what to expect, but he's really impressed me with ...
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The Complete Peanuts 1959-1962 Box Set19 reviews
Charles M. Schulz
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
High quality, gift for my son
+ Fantastic, fantastic
+ Wonderful memories.
+ Nice collection
+ A Must for Peanuts Fans
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Shadowland 1 review
Kim Deitch
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
Approach with an Open Mind...
This was the first graphic novel I have read by Kim Deitch, and in the beginning I was unsure if I was missing parts of the serial "Shadowland." The storyline of this novel doesn't just jump around, it jumps inside of every facet of a story that at times seems disjointed and confusing, but is ...
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Abandon the Old in Tokyo9 reviews
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Drawn and Quarterly, 2006
A darker grittier sadder view of modern Japan - the one without giant robots, sexy cyborgs, ninjas, or magical creatures
+ NOT for the faint of heart. Bleak and horrifying.
+ Haunted Tokyo
This is a collection of manga stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. If you have only experience with Astroboy or the more recent Pokemon/Naruto/mecha manga this will be a surprise and perhaps not to your taste. There are no magical creatures, cyborg computer hackers, fantastic robots, ninjas or samurai. ...
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Lost Girls43 reviews
Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
Top Shelf Productions, 2006
Dream and Lust
+ Woah
Finally the complete work of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie. Between dream and lust, the erotic adventures of three girls of our imaginary: Alice, Dorothy and Wendy.
A luxury edition that exalt Melinda Gebbie's superb drawing .
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