From The Archives- Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn (1990)
Why I Hate Saturn shows a creator at the beginning of the graphic novel age leading the way and figuring out how to tell a 200 page story.
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From the Archives: The End of Summer (2016)
I don't think I knew who Tillie Walden was before being offered a review copy of
The End of Summer at Newsarama. It was actually the second printing of the book
but there had been some buzz around it so I figured I'd check it out.
From the Archives- Matt Fraction and David Aja's HAWKGUY (2012-2015)
Fraction’s Hawkeye is a bit of a loser, a man who may know everything to do during the working hours but when he punches out for the day, he’s kind of lost and bumbling. But that doesn’t mean that he still can’t find trouble to get in when he’s just trying to hang around his apartment.
From the Archives-- Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes (2011)
Once upon a time, there was a dream. That dream was of a comic website where a
number of critics would be given the same book to write about.
That dream was Flashmob Fridays [http://flashmobfridays.blogspot.com].
If I'm being honest, Flashmob Fridays was one of the
From the Archives- Concrete: The Human Dilemma #1 (2004)
This piece was originally published at Mediasharx, the first or second site that
I ever wrote for. If I remember correctly, Mediasharx was a spinoff of
Zentertainment, one of the first popular entertainment news websites. I think I
may have started at the last month of Zentertainment before that site
From the Archives: Daytripper #1
But for all of its similarities, Daytripper #1 lacks the excitement and joy of life found in Bá and Moon's short stories and ends up dragging through the first issue, which is more of a prologue or framing sequence to the larger story that the twins will be telling over the next nine issues.
From The Archives- Rebecca Kraatz's House of Sugar
Biography as fragments of a memory.
Rebecca Kraatz's House of Sugar is a melancholy look back at her childhood with
the familial and social forces that shaped her through growing up. Told in
short, four panel increments, Kraatz builds up the fragments and moments of her
life, giving