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Monthly Stumblings # 15: John Porcellino
“Christmas Eve” by John Porcellino in King-Cat Comics & Stories # 72 John Porcellino’s mini-comic series King-Cat Comics & Stories is approaching issue # 75. At the current pace it probably...
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Monthly Stumblings # 16: M. S. Bastian, Isabelle L.
Bastokalypse by M.S. Bastian and Isabelle L. Is context everything? Maybe not, but it means a lot… Simply put Bastokalypse is a book depicting genocide and war. So far so good (or not, of course…...
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Monthly Stumblings # 17: Marco Mendes
Diário Rasgado [torn diary] by Marco Mendes (1) Politics Marco Mendes, Diário Rasgado, May 2012. What do you see above? A dark, moonless night… two buildings on the middleground, more on the...
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Funky Flashman
DC Comics’ “Himon!” by Jack Kirby (Mister Miracle # 9, Jul.-Aug. 1972) is not the comics story that I hate the most. That dubious honor, if I remember correctly, goes to Pedro and Me (2000) by Judd...
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Monthly Stumblings # 18: James Edgar, Tony Weare
“The Territory” by James Edgar and Tony Weare “Matt Marriott” is, with “Randall, The Killer” by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Arturo del Castillo, the best Western in comics form. This may seem like...
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J’Accuse
In July 2007 David Enright was at a Borders bookshop in the UK with his wife and two children when he stumbled upon a copy of Tintin in the Congo by Belgian comics artist George Remi (aka Hergé). The...
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Monthly Stumblings # 19: Fred
Le petit cirque (the little circus) by Fred. Fred is the nom de plume and the nom the pinceau of Frédéric Othon Theodore Aristidès. You may have heard about him because of Pilote magazine and his most...
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Monthly Stumblings # 20: Jochen Gerner
Panorama du feu (a view of fire) by Jochen Gerner Jochen Gerner was a founding member of the OuBaPo (Ouvroir de Bande Dessinée Potentiele – or, the Workshop for Potential Comics, best represented in...
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The Blind Men and the Elephant
Hanabusa Itcho, Blind Monks Examining an Elephant. Itcho, by the way, not Hokusai, contrarily to popular myth, coined the word “manga.” Speaking of stories… you know the parable: the blind men feel...
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Pamplemoussi by Geneviève Castrée
The index to the Comics and Music roundtable is here. ______________________ Comics and music may relate in a few ways: musicians and their music may be cited in comics (as seen below); abstract forms...
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