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Review: Blankets by Craig Thompson
Writer: Craig Thompson Artist: Craig Thompson Publisher: Top Shelf Productions Price: $29.95 Blankets was released in 2003. It was very well reviewed and received a lot of acclaim and awards, including an Eisner, in 2004, for best
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Review: Black Hole by Charles Burns
Writer: Charles Burns Artist: Charles Burns Publisher: Pantheon Price: $18.95 Black Hole was a limited series of 12 issues that started in 1995 and did not finish until 2005. It is now available (well, actually
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Review: Becoming Batman by Dr. E. Paul Zehr
I love books that take topics that interest me and examine the science in them. This book is not, as I assumed, a prescriptive on how to become Batman but more a treatise on
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Review: Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
I found this book to be both genuinely interesting and annoying. Interesting because it’s nice to see some discussion about comics that has depth and it was an introduction to some writers/artists that I
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Review: Making Comics by Scott McCloud
My girlfriend gave me this book, last Christmas. It is an absolutely outstanding book. Two years ago she had given me his book, “Understanding Comics”. This is a worthy successor to that excellent tome.
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Review: The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu
The inside cover reads as if this is the revelatory, until now largely untold story of a lost world of the imagination. Not quite so true – there was very little in this volume
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