Stories from Blog Flume
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Crumb's Genesis, The Pastoral, and Presence
Blog Flume &bull Jul 24, 2010
I wrote: "Alongside of Adam, Eve, and a few birds and rabbits, God rests against a tree after creation, hands on his knees, eyes closed. I can't quite explain why, but the decision to show God resting this way is… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Powers
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Buenaventura Press Gone Out of Business Sale - San Diego Comic Con 2010
Blog Flume &bull Jul 20, 2010
Some of the few remaining copies ofKramers Ergot 7which has been unavailable since last year. All of that "Other Stuff We Like." Rare and imported goods that we've gathered over the year through our travels and were previously available in… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Rare
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Crumb's Genesis and Comparisons, Briefly
Blog Flume &bull Jul 17, 2010
The fundamental achievement of Crumb's Genesis for me is that it avoids something that's central to so many illustrated versions of the bible or representations of biblical scenes: Crumb rarely idealizes his subject matter. He is not creating an inspirational text, a magical text, or a sympathetic mythology -- nor is he mocking the bible. The wonder of Crumb's Genesis is not the unknowable wonder of God's ways but of people's actions as the bible recounts them. If there is reverence in Crumb's work, it's for the flesh, for the materiality, both ugly and beautiful (though more often ugly), of… Full Story »
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Hottest/Hoest
Blog Flume &bull Jul 17, 2010
Graphicnovelreporter.com megalists Wally Gropius as one of the Hottest Adult Fiction Graphic Novels of Summer 2010, a more effusive manner of noting its release date. Yet can there be anything more than warm than the San Diego Comic Convention, where… Full Story »
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Judicial Fumetti
Blog Flume &bull Jul 1, 2010
The front page of the print edition of today's New York Times features a fumetti about the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings. The photo comic appears to emphasize design over chronology, yet it maintains a clear sense of the "story" being… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Western
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QA with Tim Hensley
Blog Flume &bull Jun 25, 2010
"I thought it would be fun to do a serious graphic novel with a character whose head looks like an inverted curling stone..." Full Story »
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Topics:
- Graphic Novel
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The "Hyper-Aggressive Misreading"
Blog Flume &bull Jun 21, 2010
In a recent post at The Hooded Utilitarian, Ng Suat Tong uses numerous ideas from Walter Benjamin as ways into an insightful discussion of comics criticism. Along with text from Benjamin, the thread features quotations and comments from a number of HU contributors, and me. Most of the writers, myself included, paint a… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Thing
- Graphic Novel
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Weathercraft
Blog Flume &bull Jun 18, 2010
How to Read Weathercraft; or, How I Read It." Read only the interior pages, the story proper. Do not read the material on the book jacket, which gives information about the characters, their world, and the story. Do not think… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Jim Woodring
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"My Cola Silo is Out Back": Wally Gropius
Blog Flume &bull Jun 3, 2010
Tim Hensley's Wally Gropius was released a week ago, and while I closely followed the story during its Mome serialization, the book (which has many new pages) is a whole nother thing. It has quickly become one of my favorite graphic novels. Here are some reasons why:Parody and/or Something Else?: It's Hard to Describe What is it? Is it a parody? Maybe, but Hensley's sense of parody is so original that it's difficult to characterize the book or his approach. Wally Gropius is formally and thematically parodic in that it imitates visual, character, and plot conventions of Dell, Harvey, and… Full Story »
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24 Recent Clowes Interviews and Features
Blog Flume &bull Jun 1, 2010
In some of the excerpts I have reprinted here, Clowes talks about a few issues that have preoccupied those who have written about his recently released graphic novel Wilson.Vice6.1.10[Wilson] reminded me of myself quite a bit, which wasn't too hilarious. Ha. Yeah. I find though that the people who are actually like Wilson are the ones that really do not like the book. I've had a few people who say that he's unbearable. They're often the people who are sort of insensitive to others and have a lack of awareness of how they come across to people. It's interesting, it's… Full Story »
