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Daily OCD: 11/23/09
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under The Comics Journal , Supermen , reviews , Portable Grindhouse , Peanuts , Paul Karasik , Noah Van Sciver , Love and Rockets , Josh Simmons , Jim Woodring , Jaime Hernandez , Gipi , Fletcher Hanks , Derek Van Gieson , Charles M Schulz , Best of 2009 , Al Columbia
23 Nov 2009 2:55 PM
Online Commentary & Diversions:
• List: Who says we don't publish superheroes? Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter Supermen! Fletcher Hanks books, Eightball #23, and"Ti-Girls Adventures" by Jaime Hernandez from Love and Rockets: New Stories (also mentioned: Josh Simmons 's unauthorized self-published mini-comic... you know the one)
• Review: "[Pim & Francie ]'s spine calls its contents 'artifacts and bone fragments,' as if they're what's left for a forensic scientist to identify after a brutal murderer has had his way with them; Columbia obsessively returns to images of 'bloody bloody killers.' ... Many of the pieces are just one or two drawings, as if they've been reduced to the moment when an idyllic piece of entertainment goes hideously awry. But they're also showcases for Columbia's self-frustrating mastery: his absolute command of the idiom of lush, old-fashioned cartooning, and the unshakable eeriness of his visions of horror." – Publishers Weekly
• Review: "With [Pim & Francie ], Al Columbia has created not only one of the more unsettling works of horror in the medium of comics, but it also happens to be one of the greatest myth-making objects... Whether Columbia planned more complete stories for any of the efforts collected here is an interesting question, but for my money he has instead come up with dozens of nightmarish scenarios that have a greater cumulative effect by skipping set-ups or endings. The ending, one suspects, is always going to be a variation of horrific death and dismemberment." – Christopher Allen, Comic Book Galaxy
• Review: Hillary Brown & Garrett Martin of SHAZHMMM... You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!
• Analysis: The Funnybook Babylon The Comics Journal
• Analysis: Oliver Ho of PopMatters Celebrating Peanuts to other landmark Peanuts publications, including our Complete Peanuts
• Plug: "I am not nostalgic for VHS... However, where VHS leaves a trace, it is surely through the covers... In December Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box Forgotten Silver translated from French)
• Links: I'm proud to be credited as the primary source in essential Love and Rockets Love & Maggie 's latest link-dump mega-roundup
• Things to see: The cavalcade of new Jim Woodring panels continues: more jungle , odd machinery
• Things to see: At Covered Noah Van Sciver takes on a 1975 OMAC cover by the King
• Things to see: Matthew Forsythe pays homage to Gipi's Wish You Were Here #1: The Innocents
• Things to see: Outtakes from Derek Van Gieson 's Mome story "Devil Doll" (also, sketchbook stuff )
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