My friend Chris Mautner on my friend Bart Beaty:
From the vault: Unpopular Culture
Panels and Pixels blog Sunday, November 30, 2008, regarding “Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s” by Bart Beaty University of Toronto Press 320 pages, $29.95.
And somebody I don't know on Our Man Thompson:
Graphic Novel Fridays: Cul De Sac
by Alex Carr
Amazon's Omivoracious blog November 28, 2008
Richard Thompson also got some love on the Comics Journal message board. In the middle of explaining why he doesn't like "Lio" or "Calvin and Hobbes," someone named "Uland" wrote:
ReplyDelete"...Richard Thompsons' Cul De Sac is hitting all the right notes for me. A single drawing of the little girl character in that strip expresses more to me about childhood- and the inherent funniness of children- than a hundred Lio strips.
I think it's a better strip than Calvin and Hobbes."
Uland's started a blog with interviews recently. Here's one he did with a Pekar collaborator -
ReplyDeleteEd Piskor.
Top Drawer: 10 Questions blog (November 28):
http://10drawerquestions.blogspot.com/2008/11/ed-piskor.html