Strip Mine

Panel by panel with Patricia Highsmith

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Jeanette Winterson’s review in the New York Times of Joan Schenkar’s biography, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith draws a connection between not only Highsmith’s plot sequencing and the six-panel comic but Highsmith’s–and her characters’–personalities as well. Highsmith, who died in 1995, wrote Strangers…

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Tags: The Rabbit Rants

You’re an Insect, Charlie Brown

Classics meet comics...or is it the other way around?

November 27th, 2009 · No Comments

There’s a comic quality and grounds for parody in even the most classic literature. In Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak proves himself  adept at discovering and exploiting these  cartoonish characteristics. But while the laughs in his collection are literate, what he parodies are the comics, everything from  Peanuts to Superman.

Masterpiece Comics would be a one-joke…

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Kidd Stuff

Book cover designer and author Chip Kidd does comics differently.

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments

The Rabbit thought he’d caught a superhero–book jacket designer and author Chip Kidd– in a contradiction. In a recent interview for the New York Times‘ “The Moment” blog, Kidd discusses how the cover he designed for The Dark Knight Returns can be seen in any comic book store “instantly at 200…

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Tags: Comics · The Rabbit Rants

Omega Redux

Jonathan Lethem revisits an obscure comic classic

May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

The Rabbit loved superheroes as a kid but seldom identified with them. It took growing up to do that. I was well into my 20s before I realized that every mild-mannered male had a secret identity, if not a colorful leotard with or without the requisite “S.”

I was somewhere in…

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Tags: Comics

Look! Up In the Sky!

Superheroes not quite faster than a speeding bullet

November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Had your fill of superheroes? Not, we’ll guess, the kind that crowd that pages of this high flying collection. These superheroes are conflicted, confused and, like the rest of us, limited in what they can do. These unlikely tales written by 22 mostly young and twisted authors, give us super…

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