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August 3, 2018 71XyGb0gi1L

WEEGEE

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by JG • Daily Pull

Max de Radiguès, Wauter Mannaert, Weegee: Serial Photographer (Conundrum, 2018). $18, pb. Instead of attempting to tell the story of Weegee’s life from his childhood immigration to the U.S. through his final years in Hollywood and Europe, de Radiguès and Mannaert choose to focus on a slice of the life: his final years working the streets of […]

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August 2, 2018 81vhthoXAzL

SPARRING WITH GIL KANE

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by Charles Hatfield • Feature

Gary Groth, ed., Sparring With Gil Kane: Debating The History and Aesthetics of Comics (Fantagraphics, 2018). $22.99, pb. Sparring with Gil Kane is a book of conversations, but its title suggests a contest or bout, as if intellectual disputation were a knuckle-bruising donnybrook or prizefight—or perhaps the equivalent of a few rounds among friendly but formidable partners. […]

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August 1, 2018 TonguesFC

TONGUES

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by Charles Hatfield • Daily Pull

Ander Nilsen, Tongues #1 (No Miracles Press, 2017). $15. An eagle wings over a mountain and across a dry, flat, stretching plain, then alights on a scene of human catastrophe: armored cars overturned, the ground cratered as if from a bombing, and a sprawled, broken-looking man’s corpse lying nearby. The eagle frees a frantic skittering monkey […]

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July 27, 2018 1518190390229

STAN LEE: THE MAN BEHIND MARVEL

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by Alan Jozwiak • Feature

Bob Batchelor, Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).  $22.95, hc. Ask any true believer who Stan Lee is and you’ll get the following responses: • The face of Marvel Comics. • The creator of The Fantastic Four, X-Men, and The Avengers. • The old man appearing in the Marvel superhero films. Stan […]

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July 26, 2018 all-the-answers-9781501166433_hr

ALL THE ANSWERS

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by JG • Daily Pull

Michael Kupperman, All the Answers (Gallery 13, 2018). $25, hc. For those who are familiar with Kupperman’s previous work, All the Answers will be a very different thing in terms of both style and substance. Compared to the belly laughs (and spit-takes) of his Tales Designed to Thrizzle, this is a fairly sombre and deeply earnest book. And […]

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July 24, 2018 71C7T7zpFLL

KABUL DISCO

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by JG • Daily Pull

Nicolas Wild, Kabul Disco: How I Managed Not to Be Abducted in Afghanistan (Humanoids, 2018). $19.95, pb. Originally published in France in 2007, Kabul Disco tells the story of Wild’s experiences working for a communications organization in Afghanistan in 2005—a job he took on a whim when his housing in Paris suddenly evaporated. Despite the subtitle, Wild […]

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July 8, 2018 The-Boat

SPOTLIGHT ON MIGRANT & REFUGEE COMICS

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by Candida Rifkind • Feature

Experiences of immigration, migration, exile, and diaspora have a long and rich history in global comics, as we will hear from a variety of presenters at the inaugural CSS conference in August. Recently, the Executive Board has been discussing what, if any, should be our collective and individual responses as comics scholars to the growing […]

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July 3, 2018 610722236

Charles Hatfield’s KinderComics

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by JG • Feature

The Comics Studies Society’s founding president just finished his term in office, somehow finding time in his final months in office to also start a new review site, KinderComics, devoted to “the intersection of comics studies, childhood studies, and children’s publishing.” We sat down for a (virtual) chat about his new project… What inspired you […]

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July 3, 2018 0

Rock Steady

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by Irene Velentzas • Daily Pull

Ellen Forney, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life. Fantagraphics, 2018. $19.95. Rock Steady begins with an energetic welcome: “Hi! I’m Ellen Forney, bipolar cartoonist.” The word “bipolar” is wedged between Forney’s name and occupation. This labelling suggests an ownership of her mental illness that is a far cry from the uncertainty and franticness of […]

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June 24, 2018 TheHardPlace_02-1-2

The Hard Place

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by JG • Daily Pull

Doug Wagner & Nicholas Nic Rummel, The Hard Place (Image Comics, 2018), $16.99, pb. I love crime comics, but I am pretty religiously a trade-waiter these days, so I had to wait my turn to get ahold of this book, which launched in floppies late last summer. It was pretty much worth the wait—an exciting, well-crafted […]

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May 25, 2018 9781626723160

Is This Guy For Real?

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by JG • Daily Pull

Box Brown, Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman (First Second, 2018). $19.99, pb. Growing up in the 1970s there were many things that confused me: OPEC, Watergate, and vinyl jumpsuits being just a few. But nothing confused me more than Andy Kaufman. I mean, I thought I got his early schtick on […]

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May 23, 2018 9780804011907

Comic Shop

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by Charles Hatfield • Feature

Dan Gearino, Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2017). 264 pp, $26.95. Dan Gearino’s Comic Shop is a book I wish I could have written. Here’s why: In my comics studies classes, I often teach the history and structure of the comic book market. Sometimes […]

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