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Archives for May 2007

Two Chester Brown Panels That Always Make Me Laugh

May 23, 2007 by matt 2 Comments

There are certain comics panels that sometimes appear in my memory out of the blue and make me laugh, and a lot of them are from the early work of Chester Brown. This one pops up most frequently (it’s the third panel from Chester Brown’s Ed the Happy Clown saga; Ed is on his way […]

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This Once-Disparaging Term

May 14, 2007 by matt 1 Comment

Kudos to Ned Vizzini, writing in the New York Times Book Review, for being one of the first non-cartoonists I have seen publicly defending the word “comics” (well, he says “comic book,” which isn’t exactly the same, but it’s close enough): …it is easy to forget that “American Born Chinese” also functions well as a […]

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Napoli Comicon 2007 photos

May 11, 2007 by matt 1 Comment

The Napoli Comicon has probably the most spectacular location of any comics convention in the world, it’s an old castle, Castel Sant’Elmo at the top of a hill overlooking the city, the bay, and Mount Vesuvius. I didn’t really get a good overall shot of the whole thing, but here’s the entrance:

Filed Under: Comics, Creative Life

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