The best thing about The Best American Series’ The Best American Comics is that it reminds us of comics we enjoyed a couple years ago. Anyone who stays half-way current with alternative comics and graphic novels will have seen a good portion of what’s in each edition of this four-year…
Best Comics of …
What year is it again?
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Comics · The Rabbit Rants
Ware’s Well
Circular design, reoccurring family history and melancholy moods define the latest work of cartoonist Chris Ware.
November 26th, 2009 · No Comments
It’s not too late to appreciate Chris Ware’s cover and story in The New Yorker’s November 2 “Cartoon Issue.” Young trick-or-treaters stand at doorways, their faces hidden behind white masks, while their parents wait back on the sidewalk, their faces masked in illumination from their personal communication devices. What a great…
Tags: The Rabbit Rants
Comic Genius
Chris Ware talks about self-doubt, the child within and the architecture of memory.
May 26th, 2008 · No Comments
You’ve heard it said, even sung: Every picture tells a story. No where is that statement more true than in comics. And no comic illustrator tells deeper, more meaningful, more entertaining, more eye-pleasing stories than Chris Ware. Ware’s comics are so innovative, so artistic, clever and literate that they bridge…
Tags: Comics · Interviews
Judge of Character
An anthology of short stories is filled with unlikable types
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s the commonly used coffee house criteria to define enjoyable fiction: “I identified with the characters.” If we recognize ourselves or others we know in a story, we’re more susceptible to being drawn in. But the characters in The Book Of Other People, an anthology of character sketches/short stories, aren’t…
Tags: Book Reviews · Interviews