Books Blab #15 By LJ Douresseau February 8, 2005 - 15:05 Publisher(s): Fantagraphics Books BLAB! #15 – ANTHOLOGY FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS EDITOR: Monte Beauchamp COVER: Lou Brooks ISBN: 1-56097-613-6; soft cover 120 pp., color and B&W, $19.95 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 who think the series has past it’s usefulness, it still features some interesting and intriguing work. BLAB! #15 certainly holds more sequential comics than the previous issue, including nice short stories from Nicolas Debon, C.P. Freund and Peter & Maria Hoey, Mark Landman, and Spain. Peter Kuper and Gary Baseman contribute excellent illustrated pieces, but the delight of this issue (for me, anyways) is the latest from Sue Coe & Judith Brody. I’ve been a huge fan of Ms. Coe’s work since Sue Coe’s X, and she never disappoints me. “Fowl Plague,” a painted expose on the poultry meat processing industry and avian viruses that spread to humans, alone, is worth the price of BLAB! Stark, sparse, and rich of text, Fowl Plague is my pick for best comics short story of the year – if it qualifies. A- © Copyright 2002-2026 by Toon Doctor Inc. - All rights Reserved. All other texts, images, characters and trademarks are copyright their respective owners. Use of material in this document (including reproduction, modification, distribution, electronic transmission or republication) without prior written permission is strictly prohibited.