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I had never heard of Riad Sattouf before, and when Jack showed me the book I wasn't very interested at first, because it seems like so many people are doing memoir comic books like that, after the suc ...

Sammy Harkham's Crickets, best thing on the shelves at the moment.

Laura Park told me on FB that she has a collection of the MOME stuff forthcoming from Drawn & Quarterly.

Also looking forwa ...

I think Best American Comics 2015 has some Josh Bayer stuff in it? Love that guy, glad to see him get some attention!

He's done a ROM comic!!! D'ya go to Desert Island at all, they might well have ...

Do they even make that paper anymore? I think it's a pretty obsolete thing, everybody just does that stuff on a computer now... I remember a Dan Clowes thing about how he could no longer buy the zipa ...

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Thanks man I'm a bit of a div when it comes to I.T...appreciated, Dav!.

On reflection I think Xaime and Chris Ware would qualify for "genius" status, too!

I think it's because I love his shading, and those special crayon and textured paper effects he sometimes used, which he maybe used less when he was able to use colour.

He was a master at using t ...

How about Bumf Vol. 1: I Buggered The Kaiser by Joe Sacco.

Brilliant. Bizarre. Disturbing. Satirical.

Recommended. 5/5

Yes! The best thing he's done for ages. Outstanding. Like, Barack Obama ...

@Ian Cockburn-
NP mate. Captain Easy/Wash Tubbs were essentially the same strip with the same characters, I think the name was changed to give C.E precedence because of reader preference. I might be ...

Has anyone read Joe Saccos Bumf volume 1?
Saw it in a shop today, seems to compile a bunch of his strip and fictional work. is this new material?
I absolutely love his journalistic work, was just cu ...

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Good to see A Small Killing on there, Oscar Zarate is great, it's a very good, under-discussed comic. Also the use of the phrase: "not alternative enough for the alternative comics market, not mainstr ...

The last Crickets, #4, by Sammy Harkham was amazing. Pope Hats #4 by Ethan Rilly was pretty good, too. Mostly been reading the old Fanta anthology Zero Zero, some classic stuff in there. Idiotland By ...

Bit late but has anyone read the latest issue of Crickets by Sammy Harkham? It, and the previous issue are without a doubt the best story he's done. "The Blood of the Virgin" is about an Australian tr ...

Dunno how that ended up being posted twice, many apologies, folks.