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bookblogging
May. 28th, 2008 02:26 pmGraphic novels/comics:
Tomine, Adrian: Shortcomings
(someday, I'll read a Drawn and Quarterly publication where the characters aren't all self-absorbed jerks. It's a good book, though, and I'm pretty sure Tomine didn't expect me to feel a lot of sympathy for Ben).
Rucka, Greg, author, and Steve Lieber, artist: Whiteout
(possibly volume 1? Not sure. Good art, good writing; the most interesting part of the book to me was actually Rucka's afterword about searching for an artist capable of illustrating this specific story--they had to be able to do B&W, to draw cold, to draw women--as in, human women, and not the superhero fare Rucka presumably has a lot of experience with--and who would do the research necessary for getting the visuals right. He is clearly happy with Lieber on these counts (and so am I!), but it really made me want to see a roundtable with Rucka and Lieber discussing this, and the interplay of the words and story that Rucka wrote and how Lieber made it into pictures on a page. I always want to read that sort of thing, because this particular kind of collaboration is fascinating to me...oh well.
This is Oni Press, by the way).
Aragones, Sergio: The Groo Festival
(as always, I lol'd. And every exchange of "...as any fool can plainly see!" Groo: "I can plainly see that!"--always funny).
Tomine, Adrian: Shortcomings
(someday, I'll read a Drawn and Quarterly publication where the characters aren't all self-absorbed jerks. It's a good book, though, and I'm pretty sure Tomine didn't expect me to feel a lot of sympathy for Ben).
Rucka, Greg, author, and Steve Lieber, artist: Whiteout
(possibly volume 1? Not sure. Good art, good writing; the most interesting part of the book to me was actually Rucka's afterword about searching for an artist capable of illustrating this specific story--they had to be able to do B&W, to draw cold, to draw women--as in, human women, and not the superhero fare Rucka presumably has a lot of experience with--and who would do the research necessary for getting the visuals right. He is clearly happy with Lieber on these counts (and so am I!), but it really made me want to see a roundtable with Rucka and Lieber discussing this, and the interplay of the words and story that Rucka wrote and how Lieber made it into pictures on a page. I always want to read that sort of thing, because this particular kind of collaboration is fascinating to me...oh well.
This is Oni Press, by the way).
Aragones, Sergio: The Groo Festival
(as always, I lol'd. And every exchange of "...as any fool can plainly see!" Groo: "I can plainly see that!"--always funny).
