5 Things To Read the Week- Aug 27th, 2022
Our weekly link post, covering writing about Marvel Fun and Games, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class, Naoki Urasawa's Master Keaton, Tom King's Batman and the 50th anniversary of Funky Winkerbean.
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A Politics of Dream - Thoughts on 20th Century Men by Deniz Camp, S. Morian, and Aditya Bidikar
20th Century Men doesn’t overtly bill itself as a superhero comic. And to be fair, it shouldn’t. It is a post-superhero superhero book.
#screenshot reviews- Dune Book 2 & Parker Girls #1
Check out our capsule reviews of Dune The Graphic Novel Book 2 and Parker Girls #1
(More Than) 5 Things to Read this Week
Reviews from Panel Patter and Broken Frontier, Jim Woodring in the New Yorker, a Nate Garcia interview, Shelfdust does Christopher Priest Black Panther, and more in this week's set of links.
Simpsons Comics Return with Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 1 - Scary Tales and Scarier Tentacles
Simpsons Comics have never had more than a paperback collection, and it's fulfilling to see the comics celebrated in such a loving way.
"Assuming it's about a 'boy and girl.'"- thoughts on Gengoroh Tagame's Our Colors
Tagame shows us the pressure of the secrets and the truths. This book is shaped around empathy, something that Sora doesn’t think he will find...
Overanalyzing the Overexamined Life - Pausing for Grant Snider's The Art of Living
As impressed as I am about the way Snider manages to refine certain elements of his cartooning while maintaining his core minimalism, it’s the philosophy at the center of the book that requires examination.