All Things To All People
Cover of Powerhouse Pepper Fantagraphics’ volume of 11 of Basil Wolverton’s Powerhouse Pepper stories (along with 4 starring other characters) works as a great companion to their new Culture Corner volume, despite having come out in 1994. Where Culture Corner showed Wolverton’s…
Cover of Skin Deep When I was young, my dad and I were both huge fans of MTV’s Liquid TV. Actually, that’s not quite true — we still are, it’s just not on anymore. Until they finally release it on DVD, we’ll…
[Purchase Book] Basil Wolverton is one of the most easily recognized comic artists and one of the most beloved. It’s always interesting to me how his art was often grotesque and vaguely disturbing (in the best of ways!) and that he was…
[Purchase Book] I want to eat Dan Clowes’ brain. If I can’t have all of it, that’s fine — I just want the writing parts. If I could write stories half as well as Dan Clowes, I’d be really something. And that’d…
[Purchase Vol. 1, Vol. 2,Vol. 3] ComicsOne was a distributor of licensed English-language manga whose company went belly-up, with all of their catalogue going to Dr. Master Publications. Unfortunately, much of said catalogue went out of print. Fortunately, the titles still available…
[Purchase Book] Yoshihiro Tatsumi is one of those cartoonists who is more influential than they are really known — at least in America. He was one of the first creators of (and the coiner of the term) gekiga, or alternative manga, using…
[Purchase Book] It seems that a good compilation is quite possibly harder to put together than a single creator book. With a single creator book, there’s only one set of tastes to worry about — whether or not the reader’s will match…
Cover of Grave Robber’s Daughter [Purchase Book] I’ve loved Richard Sala‘s stuff for a really long time — even before I knew I did, when I was watching his Liquid TV shorts, “Invisible Hands”. He’s got a great visual style that’s hard…
Cover of Alec: After The Snooter [Purchase Book] I like autobiographical comics — particularly ones that seem to fit the diary feel. Sure, there’s a lot of awful ones, but that’s true of anything. When it’s done right, though, they’re typically deeply…
[Purchase Comic] I last reviewed issue #4, and now here’s #5, a mere 10 months later! Of course, Michael Kupperman‘s been busy, with the collected volume of issues 1-4 in full color AND the [adult swim] pilot of Snake ‘N’ Bacon. And,…