tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67658333080800939322024-03-19T01:29:12.392-07:00Blog FlumeA blog about comics, cartooning, culture, etc . . .Alvin Buenaventurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279526339444526106noreply@blogger.comBlogger386125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-85174491489552786002023-06-05T06:32:00.000-07:002023-06-05T06:32:07.203-07:00¯\_(ツ)_/¯<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqraFnoVRILzsfirlIsMxgCqYhiGBffFc_lcbYheZgOprMryBPeDRckBEsfbFxwV_ucsz_rNsK-GYCMHB8GtwtnWQGKigvX-HUEGD4Vpp81J4aYedT0h3Vrs03O_dKK4yij-UhCui6JLsbNpkldC8IyizuQpEIifQj4ewUnI3cMuR9Ck4zrUeae5W/s1623/review.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1623" data-original-width="1272" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqraFnoVRILzsfirlIsMxgCqYhiGBffFc_lcbYheZgOprMryBPeDRckBEsfbFxwV_ucsz_rNsK-GYCMHB8GtwtnWQGKigvX-HUEGD4Vpp81J4aYedT0h3Vrs03O_dKK4yij-UhCui6JLsbNpkldC8IyizuQpEIifQj4ewUnI3cMuR9Ck4zrUeae5W/w314-h400/review.jpeg" width="314" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-24706785086660097452023-01-31T13:33:00.001-08:002023-01-31T13:33:32.679-08:00Mail Bag<div style="text-align: center;">Over the past few months I have received some great comics in the mail, here clumsily captured via phone on my breakfast table:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WhC0h0EDHFKpDv3CLwfmPGwDB8ZjxWZK1Jw5WjPE6tCob9DQ6fqgtd3ufDhwAky0lJdLAhTJn-h0gGXShJEpy0m3UgSuprhu7c7mmgr7at8RfORJRP4aq65zORgBWrDMY61_8d0fKGgvYA6uaNtA-xDrjOsGNRKgxaoMcsBcwRdiCIc0QoZisFLP/s4030/4683D854-5CF8-4AB2-A8E0-2354F700F8A7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3022" data-original-width="4030" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WhC0h0EDHFKpDv3CLwfmPGwDB8ZjxWZK1Jw5WjPE6tCob9DQ6fqgtd3ufDhwAky0lJdLAhTJn-h0gGXShJEpy0m3UgSuprhu7c7mmgr7at8RfORJRP4aq65zORgBWrDMY61_8d0fKGgvYA6uaNtA-xDrjOsGNRKgxaoMcsBcwRdiCIc0QoZisFLP/s320/4683D854-5CF8-4AB2-A8E0-2354F700F8A7.jpeg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMvOtl-Yx9O20dYrDMqd6_Q594jFeXwrNjmeoM31Le2nzkxjLdjgEyEuY5lXczXAoIXnS12KQBlfgEJu5dUdv4P8gxzuOF0-Nz5zBJ1Z9NY8et4zDUjqQ7VoYZf9-pSUL4NYGKgmfS6z98lkyqVYz-u39G9hCRXP4451TzMSbFlRBasJJO8ED9EX8/s4030/A224157B-B78E-496F-8F20-1C0F2AC9534D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3022" data-original-width="4030" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMvOtl-Yx9O20dYrDMqd6_Q594jFeXwrNjmeoM31Le2nzkxjLdjgEyEuY5lXczXAoIXnS12KQBlfgEJu5dUdv4P8gxzuOF0-Nz5zBJ1Z9NY8et4zDUjqQ7VoYZf9-pSUL4NYGKgmfS6z98lkyqVYz-u39G9hCRXP4451TzMSbFlRBasJJO8ED9EX8/s320/A224157B-B78E-496F-8F20-1C0F2AC9534D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is <a href="https://bluebed.net/" target="_blank">Roman Muradov's</a> latest book for Dargaud: Tous Les Vivants. This is his third book for them, and it's baffling to me why they haven't all been published in English. This story is a very ethereal and downbeat look at what might comprise the afterlife. Beautiful subtle and muted artwork.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6GczjnZQUKqTdd3EgPUGwdo05yE-qoDLH7WFCpkQ_3eHHN7dduvTv6CUPhR1ddNUOmBFnR66AH2QD26ItV2XgNtt08EUanOAP2S7QDYRASERrA8t6_whKyuDn0F8wEDG6hAxL6odsZyKZxYk5ZcGz5vXmvCr0KxzJmW0gaVTVDjnqW2lEEPfi0QAO/s4029/A413428A-ED83-4BD8-A3E0-437D1DF8EF5E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3022" data-original-width="4029" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6GczjnZQUKqTdd3EgPUGwdo05yE-qoDLH7WFCpkQ_3eHHN7dduvTv6CUPhR1ddNUOmBFnR66AH2QD26ItV2XgNtt08EUanOAP2S7QDYRASERrA8t6_whKyuDn0F8wEDG6hAxL6odsZyKZxYk5ZcGz5vXmvCr0KxzJmW0gaVTVDjnqW2lEEPfi0QAO/s320/A413428A-ED83-4BD8-A3E0-437D1DF8EF5E.jpeg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2TWtYy9rAGvWiLDI52TOl8KnGaQHb6wgCB9-gNHoa1f7EUY2aSR586_g6jQmyjYBP_AMEHJiNF1Ya9Ocw5njvDZObQoNcWI8ghH7HQGj2mMSHPYuj5WwY1uWuc7FBFcEc5ST4WpQbkmYaKGoAL2uqXL-3laqXq9uJCHi9viuZTej8p7adDO1jkdky/s4030/8FC35B89-DFB3-43E5-B490-B8500AEBCA76.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3022" data-original-width="4030" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2TWtYy9rAGvWiLDI52TOl8KnGaQHb6wgCB9-gNHoa1f7EUY2aSR586_g6jQmyjYBP_AMEHJiNF1Ya9Ocw5njvDZObQoNcWI8ghH7HQGj2mMSHPYuj5WwY1uWuc7FBFcEc5ST4WpQbkmYaKGoAL2uqXL-3laqXq9uJCHi9viuZTej8p7adDO1jkdky/s320/8FC35B89-DFB3-43E5-B490-B8500AEBCA76.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also included was a limited edition Risograph mini. This was a funny tale capturing the madness of having an unbearable song stuck in your head.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkJ74_sZYRcoKXeikeO2KFI0B1tGkvxvQA-TMMemSdw27k-IMjfmmA8mWqaPko68IgQOrOBFhDHijuusQbgj3SLgLmMojQPJvzx13NQYuza__C_-4i0KrTuyS5qcsoo5rI_J4Mn2HUlA2yyYpGvynkNg2fDznX8cwsQTCLquQCbBlPig11qB02bYa/s4030/583B8B72-8229-416E-BEB7-D9BC1F5D1E34.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3022" data-original-width="4030" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkJ74_sZYRcoKXeikeO2KFI0B1tGkvxvQA-TMMemSdw27k-IMjfmmA8mWqaPko68IgQOrOBFhDHijuusQbgj3SLgLmMojQPJvzx13NQYuza__C_-4i0KrTuyS5qcsoo5rI_J4Mn2HUlA2yyYpGvynkNg2fDznX8cwsQTCLquQCbBlPig11qB02bYa/s320/583B8B72-8229-416E-BEB7-D9BC1F5D1E34.jpeg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2EpkgB6cChRfkaT6kW8u5y1E7sA2RlnysgB3pcTatRnN8NTE_56w3WjwmtTFXD6Spzy0Lx5MJf4DxXDeKj9XveMONI7v2EbdyttNdQ6ntdDWCFb0aJlc9k3KmEmmCZBQ874yyDzX__l-Y4nL2P9NO4SDcEUyjqWXmg1hRKfuQJs-LuN1w63bsXCS/s4031/219C1345-850F-4B4F-9E4A-4BCCF22CDCAB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3023" data-original-width="4031" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2EpkgB6cChRfkaT6kW8u5y1E7sA2RlnysgB3pcTatRnN8NTE_56w3WjwmtTFXD6Spzy0Lx5MJf4DxXDeKj9XveMONI7v2EbdyttNdQ6ntdDWCFb0aJlc9k3KmEmmCZBQ874yyDzX__l-Y4nL2P9NO4SDcEUyjqWXmg1hRKfuQJs-LuN1w63bsXCS/s320/219C1345-850F-4B4F-9E4A-4BCCF22CDCAB.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/a.mag.an/" target="_blank">Andrés Magán</a> sent me the French version of his latest all-ages book, Les Aventures de Passer P. Malta. It has also been published in Spanish. It's a fun "comic within a comic within a comic" tale containing precise drawings of anthropomorphic citizens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He tells me he also has an English book forthcoming from Entropy Editions this year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAWJfzlGrI2RLXUNaj1ToDKGeVV5jsv0ZA3JpOvPx_saC5Mgy330yDXdIkBrn0qvOZuOTw1JJ31pb-DC6n7r8VuvxrDKKcPx_GaMJBF4tPf5cnggEH3ZG96L82prLnnLvfX0ISed6_T2jcjGErHS77AziRu3JfsXgNuWnIPpSK89hYbGNdT-OCpE8h/s4032/0C364386-D1D5-40C1-BF4D-281920F2026C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAWJfzlGrI2RLXUNaj1ToDKGeVV5jsv0ZA3JpOvPx_saC5Mgy330yDXdIkBrn0qvOZuOTw1JJ31pb-DC6n7r8VuvxrDKKcPx_GaMJBF4tPf5cnggEH3ZG96L82prLnnLvfX0ISed6_T2jcjGErHS77AziRu3JfsXgNuWnIPpSK89hYbGNdT-OCpE8h/s320/0C364386-D1D5-40C1-BF4D-281920F2026C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1ksdeqE5VyUBGrVa2kVDgjPDFH5S5XJLi82J2Fa8ZNRNxZB_iOUzU5c2uGkxIuAOryo-P0B4i37XuVL015l1fMtNqT88TK6oPtXwbbMwO4HScSvySeCI-Nwf-tTHV1YtUWEazdAistwQaaFShcvSXK7iBkHljcz5SLxlSGkLhyw3649KHBWRRe9M/s4032/F42F14CF-3BF8-48BA-AE91-DB95C9C9FC30.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1ksdeqE5VyUBGrVa2kVDgjPDFH5S5XJLi82J2Fa8ZNRNxZB_iOUzU5c2uGkxIuAOryo-P0B4i37XuVL015l1fMtNqT88TK6oPtXwbbMwO4HScSvySeCI-Nwf-tTHV1YtUWEazdAistwQaaFShcvSXK7iBkHljcz5SLxlSGkLhyw3649KHBWRRe9M/s320/F42F14CF-3BF8-48BA-AE91-DB95C9C9FC30.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Andrés also enclosed a risograph mini by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/begonagarciaalen/" target="_blank">Begoña García-Alén</a> that appears to be about a lengthy conversation between insects. 6 tendrils up!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Begoña and Andrés were interviewed together in <a href="https://www.bubbleszine.com/" target="_blank">Bubbles #14.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVsf0PfkHEOWZWKlEWvLWcyC00NvxZs_xtchN-M-gD5yH62vyf7sYGflAqrg93iWCsEL3MOcWJgGT15A3PWnnhZPSR-MVqBqWZ_YJc4_TDOpfF1lfLXoo2UEJrEtuNwa74KR-7oI8EBtoyh0A_X3GO8BCBODxfOH5k7gUYKqKjKygIdmb2g5NSg1Vk/s4032/374ACA6A-2A8D-4A43-88F3-C29C3A244B25.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVsf0PfkHEOWZWKlEWvLWcyC00NvxZs_xtchN-M-gD5yH62vyf7sYGflAqrg93iWCsEL3MOcWJgGT15A3PWnnhZPSR-MVqBqWZ_YJc4_TDOpfF1lfLXoo2UEJrEtuNwa74KR-7oI8EBtoyh0A_X3GO8BCBODxfOH5k7gUYKqKjKygIdmb2g5NSg1Vk/s320/374ACA6A-2A8D-4A43-88F3-C29C3A244B25.jpeg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2QVGheKmDmQiF8gHKrqMTYpi7sPKlPIn3SeK0SupfOrwAHrTZMrA44iSNJd4gQvfR2nicVCFQmiXeUBot3kOEHkiXbAqjLkDCl6k2bfsP9f28LeESQcMvL7HkyqGksX6gUJyQ0mtrkc6i3qtTrUwkOBDnBI1ZctBfDqiZDWzV0KHmXGjo7dUUHEO/s4032/43AA9A18-DFA5-4023-AA2F-49CA0AC65248.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2QVGheKmDmQiF8gHKrqMTYpi7sPKlPIn3SeK0SupfOrwAHrTZMrA44iSNJd4gQvfR2nicVCFQmiXeUBot3kOEHkiXbAqjLkDCl6k2bfsP9f28LeESQcMvL7HkyqGksX6gUJyQ0mtrkc6i3qtTrUwkOBDnBI1ZctBfDqiZDWzV0KHmXGjo7dUUHEO/s320/43AA9A18-DFA5-4023-AA2F-49CA0AC65248.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Speaking of Bubbles, <a href="https://rodeocomics.com/" target="_blank">Evan Salazar,</a> who interviewed me in issue #11, sent me a compelling mini telling a tale of the old west.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How am I ever going to keep up with all these fine folks now that I've already sent them my own book? As the saying goes, you get what you give, so back to the drawing board...</div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-32034648961414701512022-12-31T17:17:00.003-08:002022-12-31T17:36:19.660-08:00Final 2022 Detention No. 2 Links<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYGgn-1FSWYFYT9c7S2N7JS6JGISd66NxYV0au5DETe0x_vB3yAqBa-ov2rLXGnOwkS1CgVXaPOXRfPOhjhIBFTLltcHyMMVSuaI0msAimlT2MfJ9HudsB61Tpogakn7A5PSNRptmGfE8L60B2E5nYyrnO0lGKm5adyC_RY41Tis4MkhgiC6_pnji9/s4032/detente.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYGgn-1FSWYFYT9c7S2N7JS6JGISd66NxYV0au5DETe0x_vB3yAqBa-ov2rLXGnOwkS1CgVXaPOXRfPOhjhIBFTLltcHyMMVSuaI0msAimlT2MfJ9HudsB61Tpogakn7A5PSNRptmGfE8L60B2E5nYyrnO0lGKm5adyC_RY41Tis4MkhgiC6_pnji9/w300-h400/detente.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Cover Painting</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Detention No. 2 appears on a few of TCJ's Best of 2022 lists:</span><div><a href="https://www.tcj.com/the-best-comics-of-2022/" target="_blank">https://www.tcj.com/the-best-comics-of-2022/</a><br /><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">As great a review as anyone could hope for in The Comics Journal by Joe McCulloch:</span></div><div><a href="https://www.tcj.com/reviews/detention-no-2/" target="_blank">https://www.tcj.com/reviews/detention-no-2/</a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">2 bad reviews, <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">where you can almost feel the reviewer’s frustration their compulsive review quota is going to be momentarily delayed by a release that doesn’t make any sense:</span></span></div><div><a href="https://forcesofgeek.com/2022/11/detention-2-gn-review.html" target="_blank">https://forcesofgeek.com/2022/11/detention-2-gn-review.html</a></div><div><a href="https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2022/12/20/comics-daze-60/" target="_blank">https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2022/12/20/comics-daze-60/</a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Video of the Zoom book launch in conversation with Kayla E.:</span></span></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/fantagraphics/videos/432852559024945/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/fantagraphics/videos/432852559024945/</a></div></div>Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-69036242457539834342022-11-16T07:28:00.000-08:002022-11-16T07:28:05.417-08:00Sir Alfred No. 3 In Shops (Again) Today<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_Cq19tScz2bLDEje-6aRheQujyJsrCMfVpnIr30CHiAz3G-Hz9IVXS0_j4QDBgb2dPviIIZPEGsVBPJhPjriFSHYCihz4Mdltf0hLo2kQ_Tev-1MkivHe4cEZKPemTD3vDSVLxZDAqzrHakrxgCMVizgYfTsffFek_q2E6Q209w9_k22qSG96SZ1/s10680/ray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="10680" data-original-width="7440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_Cq19tScz2bLDEje-6aRheQujyJsrCMfVpnIr30CHiAz3G-Hz9IVXS0_j4QDBgb2dPviIIZPEGsVBPJhPjriFSHYCihz4Mdltf0hLo2kQ_Tev-1MkivHe4cEZKPemTD3vDSVLxZDAqzrHakrxgCMVizgYfTsffFek_q2E6Q209w9_k22qSG96SZ1/s320/ray.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><br />Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-1664488311042120932022-10-31T06:23:00.000-07:002022-10-31T06:23:32.290-07:00Collages for Floating World<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxaclG2mlm1uNJikdwPA72q27shWTpmofgn0zc5dcdQPdCwQO2l5pqEI299A52vJfeiwC_kj8bMZmxd0EEMCw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-35162493822545828052022-10-26T17:19:00.010-07:002022-10-26T18:27:22.021-07:00Detention No. 2 In Shops Today<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1vqR_D_WEwGwlp41kDkyPDm_WiomB9ZC-yvACM_sCscC1hMlMpy-40fSGXY_x5YxfPDa5fzK518FF5q_U7Dat9mjNfcCc1ApjEEGT6S5qzBDcyQnrBRfvy0_-wSL8bSH_PYZytr05czylspv9Ugb6EbpSfmvaSV6aFnKIT9jMmuZysCIg5UZOmkG6/s1280/shop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1vqR_D_WEwGwlp41kDkyPDm_WiomB9ZC-yvACM_sCscC1hMlMpy-40fSGXY_x5YxfPDa5fzK518FF5q_U7Dat9mjNfcCc1ApjEEGT6S5qzBDcyQnrBRfvy0_-wSL8bSH_PYZytr05czylspv9Ugb6EbpSfmvaSV6aFnKIT9jMmuZysCIg5UZOmkG6/w313-h388/shop.jpg" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well, to be fair, I only saw one copy in one shop.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I will be Zooming with the great <a href="https://www.kaylaework.com/" target="_blank">Kayla E.</a> on November 2nd at 3:00 p.m. PT, an event hosted by <a href="https://floatingworldcomics.com/archives/20177" target="_blank">Floating World Comics</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fantagraphics/" target="_blank">Fantagraphics' Facebook Live Page</a>, to talk about it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmvTPzkJI54juulNqNuo8uOcpVxJdA0_BZPA1OAl66z1w7Wkj4e-t043YhXaz5__G_jbRZWL4VaE86XQRbEekcnksQxWc8FJSfnicanDsTbmtgIFFjp8sBpdCK6thI5nZW6SSOpVErFo1DwH0agxW7ZrBxKded7fBcBMofzXeD1Ull6q7CZ6FCESn/w300-h400/image1.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My new comic book <b>Detention No. 2</b> is now available for preorder </div><div style="text-align: center;">at <a href="https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/coming-soon/products/detention-2">Fantagraphics</a> and <a href="https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG221442">Diamond Comic Distributors</a>.</div>Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-69312141776156875812021-08-23T09:19:00.000-07:002021-08-23T09:19:14.001-07:00Shaggs Comic, Circa 1990s<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(R.I.P. Richard Sala)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Flann O'Brien)</td></tr>
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<br />Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-44860352854023014892019-11-14T12:33:00.005-08:002019-11-15T10:11:20.993-08:00Tom Spurgeon <br />
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Way back in the late twentieth-century when I participated in
that very not-nice cesspool known as “<i>The Comics Journal</i>
Message Board,” Tom Spurgeon was the first comics professional to say nice things
about my writing, even though all I’d produced were some dashed-off, ill-conceived
posts. <br />
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That he bothered to take the time was surprising and encouraging. In the small,
lonely world that is “comics criticism,” writers don’t get much love. When, at his
essential <i>Comics Reporter</i>, he linked
to one of my pieces and offered some praise, it helped me feel like I was part of the community and was doing worthwhile work,
both of which I’ve often doubted.<br />
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There’s something Tom did in his writing that
I rarely saw elsewhere. While it might seem minor, it influenced my writing deeply: he regularly acknowledged the limits of his own perspective. In a critical review
he might say something like “though perhaps I’m just not the right reader for
this” or “nevertheless, I hope this book find its audience and I’m glad it
exists.”<br />
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He understood that every opinion was profoundly subjective. In this way, he was
a comics-criticism oddity, the antithesis of those who treat their own judgments
as objective truth and dismiss others who disagree as aesthetically or morally flawed.
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Though I didn’t always agree with him, Tom was honest and told
the truth as he saw it. He wasn’t an over-praiser or fake contrarian. He was
bullshit’s foe. In the grand Fantagraphics tradition of Kim Thompson, he’d sometimes
go after those types, and it was rewarding to see.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At SPX one year I went to dinner with Tom and a group of cartoonists.
While driving him to the restaurant, I worried that I was going to say
something dumb — and then felt bad about not being as engaging as I should, as engaging
as he always was. <br />
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I’m glad that on several occasions I thanked Tom for his support. I doubt he knew
just how much it meant to me, but I hope he understood how important he was to
so very many.<br />
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Tom has left a profound legacy as a champion of the comics medium and, far more
importantly, of the artists who make comics, the people who publish them, and those
who write about them.</div>
Ken Parillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00701364662425130792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-44383257933379517072019-09-09T12:31:00.001-07:002019-09-09T12:49:31.657-07:00Chris Ware SPX<br />
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In Chris Ware’s exhibitor badge for the upcoming SPX convention,
three exhibitors sit behind their tables, hawking their comics and trying, perhaps
a little desperately (as their faces seem to suggest), to get the attention (and money)
of a passer-by. On the table in front of each artist is three of their self-produced comics.<br />
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It makes
sense that each person makes comics whose geometric shape is exactly the shape that forms their creator's body. The exhibitors’ comics literally reflect and embody
their author - they are personal, perhaps autobiographical art (explicitly
or implicitly). At its best, SPX is not about generic corporate product, but about a personal vision: art as self-expression. In the badge’s scene, each exhibitor holds up an art manifestation of themselves for public approval or rejection. That takes some courage, especially to do it over and over for two days . . . </div>
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Sadly, these exhibitors’ comics are sometimes treated by attendees as garbage; in
the image, one of each shape-type is already strewn on the floor with other bits of
trash (no wonder the artists look kind of sad). If you’ve ever been to SPX or a
similar festival, you often see people’s freebies or promo material discarded, dropped in a garbage
can or left on one of those long tables outside the ballroom. It’s sad, but
it happens.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Ware’s scenario, the person who walks by the artists has
no interest in this kind of personal work. In a thought balloon, the attendee imagines,
not the old-fashioned kind of two-dimensional art the exhibitors offer, but something
more exciting: she imagines a cube, which must be better than a flat square,
right? (The cube contains all the three exhibitors' colors and more.) It seems that the attendee passes
them because they want something figuratively – or perhaps literally
– three-dimensional, cube-like. The humble comic just doesn't cut it. (Maybe consumers are
conditioned to want something better, more expansive, like a video game, movie,
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<br />Ken Parillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00701364662425130792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-38273994685337752092019-02-28T07:58:00.003-08:002019-02-28T08:15:28.186-08:00There's a lot of ageism in comics criticism online. I write about it here: <a href="http://www.tcj.com/hope-i-die-before-i-get/">http://www.tcj.com/hope-i-die-before-i-get/ </a><br />
<br />Ken Parillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00701364662425130792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-81005854278975730392019-02-11T16:30:00.002-08:002019-02-12T12:26:08.158-08:00Alvin Buenaventura . . . <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Last week, I stopped by my “LCS” (Local Comics Shop) on “NCD” (New Comics Day). Rather than follow my normal routine of skimming the racks of overpriced new comics and thumbing through water-stained boxes of recently acquired back-issues, I decided to rummage around in the alternative comics section, which, not surprisingly, is secreted away in a dank back corner of the store. My shop, Nostalgia Newsstand, is unusual in that it even has these kinds of non-mainstream comics. While very few of its customers go for the arty stuff, the store owner does — so he always orders “the good shit.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On a dust-covered and bent-from-being-overstocked shelf of alternative comics and graphic novels, I came across an old Buenaventura Press project <i>Private Stash </i>(2006) that I worked on with Alvin (in addition to the brainstorming we’d do for most of his projects, for this one I came up with the title and wrote most of the copy). I already owned one and should have left it in the wild for some lucky art-comic lover to stumble across (given it had been collecting dust there since 2006, the odds of that happening were slim). But w</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">henever I see anything Alvin produced in a store I feel a need to buy it, just as I buy every copy of the </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alvin and the Chipmunks</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> comic book I come across because it’s a comic and it has “ALVIN” on it. </span></div>
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While I was paying for it, one of the store’s former regulars, a nice guy named Mike — who I used to see every Wednesday (aka “New Comics Day”) but hadn’t seen there in years — stopped in. He recognized <i>Private Stash</i> and began talking excitedly about Alvin: “Everything Alvin produced was great. Books, prints, whatever. I would go to SPX every year and buy anything he did. If it was a book, I didn’t even need to look at it or read it. If Alvin did it, it was great work.” “So true,” I replied. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br />**<br />
Alvin was an anomaly, an aesthetically well-tuned freak of nature who cared deeply about making compelling objects. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">He left us three years ago today, and I miss him. On the inside of </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Private Stash</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> appears this acknowledgement: "Special thanks to Ken Parille." Does it seem maudlin if I thank him here today? Well, anyways, thanks Alvin.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogflumer.blogspot.com/2018/02/remembering-alvin.html">https://blogflumer.blogspot.com/2018/02/remembering-alvin.html</a> </span><br />
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</span>Ken Parillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00701364662425130792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-14329326073214707022018-11-30T10:02:00.000-08:002018-11-30T10:02:21.628-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWfBVeb1gZ5SkE2zeLTz5u_HaqfaMctXVp2ajNP72YuCIQCVzya35IJVM-N9G0kORLSc_stSk3LqcMKA-72DkrKHnZb4bdYu1R3GGx794HD94jQ2PnzwpGT4931ko6VHfgqROaMb-HSw/s1600/image1.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWfBVeb1gZ5SkE2zeLTz5u_HaqfaMctXVp2ajNP72YuCIQCVzya35IJVM-N9G0kORLSc_stSk3LqcMKA-72DkrKHnZb4bdYu1R3GGx794HD94jQ2PnzwpGT4931ko6VHfgqROaMb-HSw/s640/image1.jpeg" width="404" /></a>Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-17744523187972922942018-11-11T18:39:00.000-08:002018-11-11T18:45:03.909-08:00Rina's New Book<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The twenty or so people still checking on this near-defunct blog may remember in 2013 my book <a href="http://www.yambooks.com/ticketstub/">Ticket Stub</a> was published by <a href="https://rinadoodle.blogspot.com/">Rina Ayuyang’s</a> Yam Books.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In September of 2017, I received an offer to publish Sir Alfred No. 3 from </span><a href="https://twitter.com/thomasragon" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Thomas Ragon,</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> an editor working for the publisher </span><a href="http://www.dargaud.com/" style="font-family: inherit;">Dargaud.</a><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">If you purchase the book at a shop in Paris called <a href="http://librairie-superheros.com/second.php">Super Héroes,</a> you can sign up to receive an exclusive signed bookplate.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">When I was 14, I took French as an elective in junior high school. My teacher was named Madame Field, unrelated to the plural mall cookie magnate. I vaguely remember conjugating three basic verbs and learning about Guy, pronounced the same as Indian clarified butter, who appeared in sample conversations always seeming to have plans to go skiing.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I vaguely remember Madame Field drove a racing green MG, perhaps had a mullet before they were commonplace and often wore jeans tucked into leather boots. If that makes her sound vampy, it is more accurate to say she hopefully had interests outside of teaching a bunch of yokels in the San Fernando Valley.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I enjoyed French enough to want to proceed the next semester. The problem was there were only like 5 other people of the same inclination. Faced with being asked to teach two classes at once in the same classroom, Madame Field instead sent us with our "Son et Sens" textbooks to the library every day. There we were to read through each chapter, complete the study questions and turn them in at the end of the period. Unfortunately, we learned rapidly how to complete the work without really absorbing the intent, then copied each other’s answers. Since I was 14, I became more interested in the library's xerox machine. I discovered if you placed your face on the glass and followed the green bar of light that passed underneath for a portion of its path, you would end up with a distorted visage not unlike the cover of Public Image’s Second Edition.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">As a result, I didn’t retain any of the other irregular verbs I barely studied, nor was I required to even try to speak the language aloud. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">To make matters worse, upon graduation I received an award—I’m pretty sure it was a piece of paper—for my French studies. Even then I knew I didn’t deserve it. There was a photo of me in the school paper:</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">If you had told me at 14 I would be publishing a book in France at 52, I might have paid more attention in class. But let's face it, I likely would've still xeroxed my face for most of the year. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The book would never have occurred without the supervision of <a href="http://www.comicsandcola.com/2015/07/an-interview-with-darguad-editor-thomas.html">Thomas Ragon.</a> <a href="http://nora.bz/">Nora Bouazzouni </a>was perfect for the translation, <a href="http://www.justo.fr/">Emmanuel Justo</a> did a great job of making a font of my lettering, and Yohan Faumont and others at Dargaud worked very hard to bring the book to completion. I'm grateful to them all for taking a chance on it. </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Although I clearly failed Madame Field as a student, she did instill a curiosity about the language and culture that has weathered my lack of diligence, among many other long remarked upon shortcomings.</span></span><br />
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</style>Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-64858582775262100192018-08-27T10:29:00.003-07:002018-08-31T11:05:32.893-07:00On the internet, a comic-book writer said some familiar things about 'comics' . . <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“Comics aren’t for everyone”</div>
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Odd – would someone say movies or prose books aren’t for everyone? I
doubt it, but maybe. Given how many people of all ages read comics and manga as
well as comics-like things (memes, picture-books, etc.), it’s an odd claim. Is
he talking about ‘comic books’ but instead uses ‘comics’? That’s a familiar,
but pretty imprecise use of words. Maybe he means ‘my kind of superhero comic
books aren’t for everyone’? That’s true. But the medium - comics - is
everywhere, all over the internet, in newspapers, magazines, etc., and
especially in the form of the near-universal ‘visual sequential’ instructions
on product packing (there are many in every grocery store I've been in). In this way and many others, comics is/are literally for
everybody (at least as much as anything can truly be said to be 'for everybody,' which, to be accurate, it can't.)<br />
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“Created by the children of immigrants” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m not sure who created comics – does he or anyone really
know? The medium goes back centuries, so
again, an odd claim. If he means not ‘comics’ but ‘the American comic-book that
emerged in the 1930s and that stars a costumed super-being’ then maybe I get what he
saying - we know the names of (most of) these creators; but that’s not what he said. A
superhero’s origin story may be pretty specific (though it’s often revised so
many times that any one version is no longer definitive), but the origin story of
‘comics’ is ongoing, elusive . . .<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It is the medium of the outsider and the outcast, the nerd
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Maybe, but I’m sure countless non-nerds have for many, many
decades read newspaper comics regularly; and my Facebook feed is full of
non-comics people posting jokey online comics. Every week I see/read about some
celebrity coming out as a ‘total comics nerd.’ It’s a thing. Comics are cool, I
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So, to sum up: <br />
Comics is/are for everyone, except those who don't like them.<br />
We don’t know who
created the medium (because it evolved over time in different places).<br />
Reading them doesn’t (sadly)
make me or you a rebel or an outsider.<br />
And if you’re talking, not about the
medium of ‘comics,’ but about ‘superhero comic books,’ just say that. It’s
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<span style="background: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>Ken Parillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00701364662425130792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-76769074228679514852018-07-27T04:43:00.002-07:002018-07-27T04:45:27.368-07:00Alvin at The Believer Archived<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzoMszKji7JWpUIQXQdvgZTUo4Kdc7Fc1VRyL08DTA4gYEZjRsKsZTpaxIk1m1ShWe3w-nWG-plZetwKtSnFP56jb1g7e2se08mIdskjYElFQS4uk5A4-FjwN5Zq1qjFr74kAE_gVI_vw/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-07-27+at+4.40.30+AM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzoMszKji7JWpUIQXQdvgZTUo4Kdc7Fc1VRyL08DTA4gYEZjRsKsZTpaxIk1m1ShWe3w-nWG-plZetwKtSnFP56jb1g7e2se08mIdskjYElFQS4uk5A4-FjwN5Zq1qjFr74kAE_gVI_vw/s320/Screen+Shot+2018-07-27+at+4.40.30+AM.png" width="308" /></a><br />
The Believer have updated their website to include all of the comic sections Alvin Buenaventura edited there: <a href="https://believermag.com/contributor/alvin-buenaventura/" target="_blank">https://believermag.com/contributor/alvin-buenaventura/</a><br />
<br />Tim Hensleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508411223050676723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765833308080093932.post-27973618720660831532018-07-04T07:43:00.001-07:002018-07-04T07:44:56.577-07:00La Chute, 2003I originally drew this for the SPX Anthology, when they had one, in April 2003, but it wasn't chosen. (The next year, their theme was "war." Not anti-war, but war, though one could argue war implies anti-war as well.) Luckily, the story was eventually printed in the also long-gone spiral-bound anthology "Studygroup 12 No. 3."<br />
15 years later, it doesn't seem any more palatable and is appearing now mostly for the purpose of cold storage. It was before I settled into my "every comic takes 7 years" phase.<br />
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