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More Comics Blood Orange #2 The first issue is a tough act to follow, but BLOOD ORANGE #2 makes up for having fewer star alt-comics names by featuring more experimentation, more drama, and even wilder imaginations. Mar 21, 2005 - 13:36:00 PM
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More Comics Blood Orange #1 When it comes to BLOOD ORANGE, better late than never, right? During its publishing history (which is approaching three decades), Fantagraphics Books must have a section of its offices devoted to being a graveyard for comic book anthologies. Mar 21, 2005 - 13:35:00 PM
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Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men #456 First off, I’ll say again how I’m overjoyed to have Chris Claremont on UNCANNY X-MEN again. When other people write the X-Men, they seem alien (Grant Morrison) or just boring (Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Scott Lobdell). Mar 21, 2005 - 13:32:00 PM
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More Comics Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Vol. 2 Dark Horse Comics took the hyper-kinetic action and angular drawing style of Cartoon Network’s “Star Wars: Clone Wars” series of cartoon shorts and turned that into the comic digest magazine, STAR WARS: CLONE WARS ADVENTURES. Mar 21, 2005 - 13:30:00 PM
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More Comics Luba’s Comics And Stories #5 Gilbert Hernandez is one of the great comic book writers of the last 25 years, and saying so isn’t a surprise to people who have been reading his work for even just a few years. Mar 21, 2005 - 13:22:00 PM
If the “new and improved” The Comics Journal is not good enough for people who stopped reading the magazine when it more or less stopped fixating on so-called mainstream... Mar 14, 2005 - 15:14:00 PM
Charles Burns concludes his decade long graphic novel in BLACK HOLE #12. I’ve only had the extreme pleasure of reading recent issues of this fine series. Feb 23, 2005 - 15:06:00 PM
Interviews Interview With Nate Maurer Nathan Maurer won the grand prize of TOKYOPOP’s The Rising Stars of Manga 3 competition and is the Q&A subject of Mr. Charlie #45. Feb 23, 2005 - 10:15:00 AM
The Comics Journal Library from Fantagraphics is a lavishly produced series of 12” x12” coffee-table books, each one collecting interviews drawn from the leading magazine of comics news, criticism, and opinion, The Comics Journal. Feb 8, 2005 - 15:19:00 PM
Billed as “the preeminent anthology of the graphic design and illustration arts,” BLAB! keeps rolling with its fifteenth issue, and though the anthology series is an easy target for critics... Feb 8, 2005 - 15:05:00 PM
Interviews Interview With Ashly Raiti Ms. Raiti is the writer/co-creator of “Life Remains,” a poignant, beautiful, and tragic tale of friendship set in a post-apocalyptic world. Feb 8, 2005 - 10:17:00 AM
I no longer make any pretense of being impartial about cartoonist Jamie Hernandez, but I’m being straight up when I say that he shines on two of his three short tales in LOVE AND ROCKETS, VOL. II #11. Jan 18, 2005 - 15:29:00 PM
Interviews Interview With Alex Fellows Back after an absence, Mr. Charlie #43 looks at Alex Fellows. The 25-year old Canadian is a rising alt-comics star and winner of a Xeric Grant. Jan 11, 2005 - 10:19:00 AM
Fantagraphics Books now brings the best of America’s weekly comic strips, publishing them in book form for readers without access to cool weekly newspapers. Jan 10, 2005 - 15:59:00 PM
Not for children, not for the politically correct, not for sensitive readers, WHAT’RE YOU LOOKIN’ AT?, the trade paperback reprinting Johnny Ryan’s Angry Youth Comix #1-5, ... Jan 10, 2005 - 15:57:00 PM
Cartoonist Mark Bodé used an idea from what was apparently one of his late father, famed underground and fantasy cartoonist, Vaughn Bodé’s, last works and turned it into a delightful graphic novel, THE LIZARD OF OZ. Jan 10, 2005 - 15:24:00 PM
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More Comics Owly OWLY is a 5¼ x 7½ graphic novel made of two novellas featuring a lonely little owl with kind heart large enough for that big old scary world out there. Jan 10, 2005 - 13:52:00 PM
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More Comics Jeffrey Brown's Bighead Taking the conventions (some one would call them silly) of superhero comics, in particular the capes and tights, and making fun of them is not exactly something missing from comics. Jan 10, 2005 - 13:48:00 PM
Butch and Petey are two aging, obese truckers. Dec 22, 2004 - 15:44:00 PM
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More Comics Brett Ewins' The Dark Gate On the road to recovery from a major illness, cartoonist (2000 A.D.’sBad Company) and former Deadline publisher, Brett Ewins began in 1995 drawing a series of short stories written by friends and comics writers. Dec 22, 2004 - 14:20:00 PM
Interviews Interview With Martin Cendreda We have a short Mr. Charlie #42 for you this time. Our subject is cartoonist and animator, Martin Cendreda. Dec 9, 2004 - 10:22:00 AM
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Comic Strips The Pain: When Will It End? by Tim Kreider The readers of the Baltimore City Paper have been privileged until earlier this year to be pretty much the only viewers of cartoonist Tim Kreider’s uncannily and crazily perceptive visions of modern life. Dec 5, 2004 - 15:33:00 PM
Surely you’ve heard otherwise, but for nearly three decades THE COMICS JOURNAL has been the best American magazine about comix, comic books, sequential arts, etc, and issue 260 is another shout of “Amen” from the choir. Dec 5, 2004 - 15:13:00 PM
After nearly two and half-years, Fantagraphics Books finally brings us another issue of Daniel Clowes' fabulous comic book series, EIGHTBALL. Dec 1, 2004 - 15:20:00 PM
Interviews Interview With C. William Russette C. William Russette is the happy interview subject of Mr. Charlie #41. He is the writer of Rorschach Entertainment's LUCIFER FAWKES: BLOODFLOW. Nov 24, 2004 - 10:24:00 AM
Interviews Interview With Sarah Ferrick The 16-year old wunderkind was a finalist in TOKYOPOP's The Rising Stars of Manga #3 competition. Although teenage comic book artists are nothing new, Ms. Ferrick will stand out in a crowd. Nov 9, 2004 - 10:26:00 AM
Good-bye, Roberto Gregory. Though I haven't been a regular reader of her comic NAUGHTY BITS since the late 1990's, I am sad to learn that #40 is the last issue of the 13-year old series. Nov 8, 2004 - 15:31:00 PM
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Canuck Alex Fellows' Canvas CANVAS – OGN: Curiosity leads as she becomes attracted to two guys during a camping trip with her parents; her father is a frog, and her mother is a pig. Nov 4, 2004 - 15:10:00 PM
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More Comics Man Is Vox: Paingels MAN IS VOX: PAINGELS is a continuation of Man is Vox: Barracudae, one of the first Candle Light Press original graphic novels. Nov 4, 2004 - 14:16:00 PM
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More Comics Carol Swain's Foodboy In the small rural, Welsh village of Llanparc, Gareth and Ross have grown up together, but after a verbal confrontation with the leader of a traveling group of Evangelists, Ross undergoes a spiritual and physical transformation that changes his relationship with Gareth. Nov 1, 2004 - 15:22:00 PM
Interviews Interview With Iain Gill Continuing our series of interviews with winners of TOKYOPOP's The Rising Stars of Manga 3 contest, we offer a question and answer session with Iain Gill. Nov 1, 2004 - 10:27:00 AM
Much has been made of Jason's pantomime (or silent) comics in the last three years since his first appearance on our shores. Oct 16, 2004 - 15:46:00 PM
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More Comics Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Vol. 1 Like a lot of folks, I enjoyed the Cartoon Network's presentation of "Star Wars: Clone Wars," so I was quite excited to hear that Dark Horse Comics was going to publish digest-sized comic books based on the hit TV series. Oct 16, 2004 - 9:07:00 AM
Get Your Color Corps Rings
Fans of the Color Corps need to pre-order a selected set of books to ensure they get a full set of these limited edition rings.
Dick Tracy at San Diego Comic Con
Shocker Toys returns to San Diego Comic-Con Booth #3849 with five, count ‘em, five, exclusives, the return of an old favorite and one can’t miss party
Review: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Despite some dated graphics, this addition to the already massive sand box game is very welcomed.
Review: Halo 3: ODST
With great visuals, audio and addictive multiplayer mode, this game is a great addition to the series.
Review: The Beatles: Rock Band
Harmonix keeps delivering a new experience each time. This game is an absolute must have for Beatles fans and music lovers alike.
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