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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.
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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.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
antickmusings.blogspot.com | Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler
It's not. The Renegade I was thinking of - Renegade Press, the mid-80s enterprise from Deni Loubert - shut down more than thirty years ago. This is a newer company, founded in 2008, that publishes comics, graphic novels and audiobooks out of Canmore, Alberta. So it's mildly amusing there were two comics publishers from Canada with sort-of the same name, but there was a good twenty years between them, and they were from close to opposite ends of that large country.
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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.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
antickmusings.blogspot.com | Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler
Julia Gfrörer draws thin lines, mostly all the same width. Her stories are set in the deep European past, told straightforwardly with a cold but not unsympathetic camera-eye. They are about death most of the time, I think. Laid Waste was her 2016 graphic novel; it followed Black Is the Color, and - if Wikipedia can be trusted - is still her most recent book. It's set during the plague: probably the 1300s, somewhere in Europe.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
antickmusings.blogspot.com | Andrew Wheeler |Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler
Koren Shadmi's 2023 graphic novel All Tomorrow's Parties: The Velvet Underground Story tells the story of the band in comics format. It follows Shadmi's previous nonfiction books Lugosi and The Twilight Man, more traditional pop-culture bios of a single person, as well as a number of Shadmi's fictional works, like Bionic.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
antickmusings.blogspot.com | Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler
Two Dead is a mystery, or maybe a thriller, since we know most of the details from the beginning. It was written by Van Jensen and drawn by Nate Powell, telling a story of cops and criminals in 1946 Little Rock - a city they both know well, though maybe not in that era.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
antickmusings.blogspot.com | Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler
be there: generated by the kids themselves, random, unquestionable and bedrock? Zerocalcare's graphic novels are set in a world - well, they're memoirs, officially, so it's the world inside his head, the real world as he sees it or the way he thinks it's more entertaining to pretend he sees it - based on that logic.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
antickmusings.blogspot.com | Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler
concern for design, for telling stories precisely and sharply. I didn't quite realize that the first few times I read the work of siblings Maria Hoey and Peter Hoey - the full-length graphic novel The Bend of Luck and the connected themed collection Animal Stories. I said that their work reminded me of other kinds of art - advertising, Flash games, informative pamphlets, and so on - but didn't quite make the leap to say that's because they do that other kind of work as well.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
antickmusings.blogspot.com | Your Hornswoggler |Andrew Wheeler
Madwoman of the Sacred Heart for a fuller rant.) I tend to think Moebius had massive tendencies towards self-indulgence at best, and that Jodorowsky fed into those, adding a soupy Euro mystic vagueness on top, like a light fog that makes everything unclear. But I like books that I react strongly to - even if that reaction is not actually positive. The point of art is to make people feel, and revulsion and disdain is a feeling, he said somewhat puckishly.
