Andrew Wheeler

2 months ago | antickmusings.blogspot.com | Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler

always want to draw Loki in a helmet with big twisty ram's horns. I know why, they know why - we all know why. But reminding readers of bombastic comics for kids, hacked out monthly and printed on the cheapest paper available, might not be the mental connection you want to make in your classy hardcover collection of retold myths. I'm just saying.

Jan 17, 2025 | antickmusings.blogspot.com | Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler

in my own head. So a book about a Spanish couple moving to live in Japan for an extended period, originally published in France and translated into English for American publication by a mostly French company headquartered in Hollywood...well, that's the kind of complication I love. I figured it probably wouldn't even affect the book itself much, and I was right.

Jan 7, 2025 | antickmusings.blogspot.com | Andrew Wheeler |Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler

Nancy Wins at Friendship is the second collection of the Olivia Jaimes era of that long-running newspaper strip; it was published in 2023 but seems to mostly reprint strips from the 2019-2020 era. Jaimes took over the strip in 2018, and her first collection, just called Nancy, came out less than a year later - in some world where newspaper comic strip collections are things "the kids" buy and read and crave, there could have been eight or ten books this length by now.

Jan 3, 2025 | antickmusings.blogspot.com | Andrew Wheeler

always come out as line extensions after a creator has died and can't produce new work, but...it's pretty darn common. This book, for example: The Art of Edena, part of the vague "Moebius Library" (which seems to be primarily, if not entirely, posthumous itself). It was assembled in 2018 and credited to Jean "Moebius" Giraud, who had died in 2012.

Dec 17, 2024 | antickmusings.blogspot.com | Andrew Wheeler

I think The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber doesn't quite explain all of the things it should have - but it's close, and some readers might find the way it implies its world is just fine. So let me just note that, and note that this is writer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's first graphic novel, and point out that traditionally ties go to the runner. I have no quibbles about the art by Juni Ba, which is detailed in quirky, grotesque ways that fits this world perfectly.