Saturday, July 24, 2010

Crumb's Genesis, The Pastoral, and Presence

In a reply to Ng Suat Tong in an ongoing discussion of Crumb’s Genesis, I commented on a panel that I think is particularly successful in ways that get at why Crumb’s adaptation as a whole is compelling -- the pastoral tableaux that opens chapter 2:

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Buenaventura Press Gone Out of Business Sale - San Diego Comic Con 2010



Since I already have the booth that I reserved from last year I'll be in San Diego this week at booth #1734 (near Fantagraphics and D&Q, directly across the aisle from Giant Robot.)


Here's what I'll have for sale:


  • All of the BP titles including Comic Art Magazine, Boy's Club by Matt Furie, The Gigantic Robot by Tom Gauld.
  • Some of the few remaining copies of Kramers Ergot 7 which has been unavailable since last year. It will never be reprinted so here’s your chance to grab one before they are gone for good
  • 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 the BP Webshop. Minis, foreign anthologoies, artist's books, silkscreened goodness, etc...
  • Warehouse finds including back issues of Comic Art Magazine, and long out of print mini comics...
  • A ton of original artwork and obscure prints from my personal collection by many of our favorite cartoonists.
  • Rare comics and books from my personal collection.
  • Also stop by throughout the weekend for daily blowout sales.


Lisa Hanawalt and Johnny Ryan will both be with us. Come by to get your books signed and to check out their new prints and original drawings!

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Crumb's Genesis and Comparisons, Briefly

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:

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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Judicial Fumetti and Narrative


The front page of the print edition of today’s New York Times features a fumetti about the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings.

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