Classic Comics Cavalcade: The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984
In his introduction to this, the seventeenth installment of Fantagraphics' loving reprint of every Peanuts strip produced during its nearly 50-year...
Harvey Pekar and American Splendor: A Comics Bulletin discussion, Part Two
This week: Jason and Eric discuss their favorite American Splendor stories. Read part one of their discussion here. Eric Hoffman: You and I...
Harvey Pekar and American Splendor: A Comics Bulletin discussion
This past Sunday, Jason and Eric sat down to discuss Harvey Pekar and his singular comic book American Splendor. This first part of a two-part...
Top 10 Non-Superhero Comic Book Movie Adaptations
In the spirit of Rolling Stone's recent article on the Top 50 Non-Superhero comics, Comics Bulletin is proud to present columnist Eric Hoffman’s...
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Review: ‘The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger’ is authoritative
In 1906, fine artist Lyonel Feininger produced two comic strips for The Chicago Sunday Tribune: The Kin-Der-Kids, a whimsical strip that follows the...
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Nexus Omnibus 4: Nexus is something of a singular achievement
In my last Classics Comics Calvacade column, I took a look at the seminal early 1980s indie comic Matt Wagner’s Grendel. Continuing in that vein,...
Classic Comics Cavalcade: Grendel Omnibus Volume 4: Prime
In what appears to be the final volume of Dark Horse's reprinting of nearly the entirety of Matt Wagner's seminal 1980s indie comic Grendel...
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Classic Comics Cavalcade: R. Crumb: Conversations
R. Crumb's elevated position within comics history now seems assured. He has taken his place among the giants of the medium: his name and style...
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Review: ‘Alan Moore: Conversations’ is a useful compendium of all things Moore
Full disclosure: Together with Dominick Grace, I co-edited two volumes of the Conversations with Comic Artists series, of which this book is a part,...
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Review: ‘Peter Bagge’s Other Stuff’ is a worthwhile collection for all you Baggers and Baggettes out there.
A refreshingly copious amount of Peter Bagge's post-Hate work has found its way into print in recent years: his collection of strips Bat Boy for The...
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Review: ‘The Spectral Engine’ by Ray Fawkes, is a haunting – if you’ll forgive the pun – ghost story.
The Spectral Engine, the new graphic novel by Constantine and Justice League Dark scribe Ray Fawkes, is a haunting – if you’ll forgive the pun...
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Review: 'Comic Books and the Cold War: Essays on the Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 1946 to 1962'
Chris and Rafiel York's volume of essays Comic Books and the Cold War aims to fill a critical gap in scholarly treatment of post-Second World...
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Review: 'The Star*Reach Companion' is a horribly disjointed and entirely problematic effort
Richard Arndt's The Star*Reach Companion is a horribly disjointed and entirely problematic effort. Its major flaw is in its construction....
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The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made: Understanding Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
When I informed my friend and co-editor Dominick Grace that I would be reviewing a critical essay on Jack Kirby's lamentably awful 1970s comics...
50 Girls 50 and Other Stories by Al Williamson
Welcome to the fourth part of our multi-part look at the great EC cartoonists! In the first column in this series, Jason Sacks wrote about one of...