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Approximate Continuum Comics Lewis Trondheim Fantagraphics $17.00
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Read more and comment... 		Trondheim's autobiographical masterpiece is at last collected!  This 160 page French-flapped softcover collects the entirety of the six issue series originally published between 1993 and 1996 along with seven pages of "rebuttals" from individuals – mostly French comics creators – who were subjectified in Trondheim's tale of comics in comics, including such L'Association luminaries as David B., Killoffer, Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy.  Get an intimate inside look at the world of French comics – or should we say, bande desinee – while simultaneously receiving an inside look at the mind that is perceiving that world; it's a comics feedback loop!
Little Nothings: The Curse of the Umbrella #1 Lewis Trondheim UNDEFINED $13.50
($14.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Fully cognizant adult funny animals walk and talk through the streets and across the skies of Europe, searching for meaning and beauty in this 120 page graphic novel that is confidently rendered in pen and ink and sensitively colored in watercolor by one of the most popular of contemporary European comics artists.
MOME #6 (Winter 2007) Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, Lewis Trondheim, Tim Hensley and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
($14.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		edited by Eric Reynolds and Gary Groth Yes, we have all the ususal suspects again this time around -- J. Bennett, J. Brown, Sophie Crumb, M. Cenreda, Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, David Heatley, Tim Hensley, and some pretty amazing apocryphal neo-romance covers by R. Kikuo Johnson -- but there are a couple new entries from Europe that are quite worth noting:  Lewis Trondheim makes his MOME debut with the first part of his new comics diary, Loose Ends; and Vosges Studio co-founder, Émile Bravo provides this issue's standout story, The Brothers Ben Qutuz in "Frustration Land."  This ten page pantomime (no text or dialogue) story -- enabling it to be read and understood without it having to be translated -- is a startlingly succinct exegesis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as experienced at street level on the Palestinian side, that will invade your consciousness and refuse to leave; a perfect example of the value of comics as a form of commmunication.
MOME #7: Spring 2007 Al Columbia, Andrice Arp, Kurt Wolfgang, Eleanor Davis and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Read more and comment... 		This issue finds MOME at a crossroads of sorts as this is the the last time -- at least for now -- that it will feature work by the core of MOME regulars Anders Nilsen -- who also provides this issue's interview -- Jeffrey Brown, Gabrielle Bell and Martin Cendreda all of whom except Brown (who is, evidently,  already gone) turn in their farewell pieces this issue.  New team-MOME members premiering here are self-publishing stalwarts Eleanor Davis and Tom Kaczynzki who both turn in the first of what promises to be a string of fine pieces, and we can only presume that they will be joined next issue with more voices from the alterna-ground.  Also on hand this issue is cover artist, Lewis Trondheim's hybrid/sketchbook/collage comics work, "At Loose Ends, Part 2," continued from last time.  Sophie Crumb --  about whom we admit to having been a bit skeptical, at first -- has proven herself a keen observer of humanity in her short pieces for MOME, and her contributions this time around are some of her finest to date.  David Heatley and Kurt Wolfgang soldier on with their respective continuing sagas; Andrice Arp and Paul Hornschemeier both shift gears -- Arp with a dream piece and Paul H. with a couple of oddball toyings with  words and pictures; finally, "weird" Al Columbia turns in a batch of "Chopped-Up People."  You have been warned.
The Comics Journal #283 Dan Nadel, Lewis Trondheim, Matthias Wivel, Donald Phelps and more ... Fantagraphics $12.50
($15.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Lewis Trondheim cover interview; also, Dan Nadel's interview with painter cum comics artist David Sandlin takes us on a fascinating tour of Sandlin's Sinland (not in any way, shape or form to be confused with Frank Miller's Sin City, of which Sinland should perhaps be considered -- at least in some respects -- the antithesis).
Mome #8 - Summer 2007 Jonathan Bennet, Sophie Crumb and, Eleanor Davis, Ray Fenwick and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.00
($14.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		MOME 8 - Summer 2007 is edited by Eric Reynolds and Gary Groth. This issue pretty much completes the transition to the new "Team MOME."  Original members Jonathan Bennet, Sophie Crumb and Paul Hornschemeier are joined here by new comers (some of whom showed up last issue) Eleanor Davis, Ray Fenwick, Tom Kaczynski, Al Columbia, Émile Bravo and Joe Kimball, while Lewis Trondheim wraps up his three-part "At Loose Ends."  Davis is the featured artist this issue with her work gracing the cover and providing the lead story, while she is the interview subject as well.   Her story, "Stick and String" is a moody meditation on exogamous bonding that shows her work moving a bit in the direction of Sammy Harkham (although, in her interview, she identifies Joann Sfar as her current fave).  The Copacetic pick for this issue is Tom Kaczynski's "10,000 Years," a mordant take on contemporary alienation that, while clearly indebted to Clowes, brings an original perspective to the table with its smart synthesis of dialectical materialism and post-industrial consumer culture.  And we can't sign off on this issue without mentioning Émile Bravo's "Young Americans," which is certainly one of the cleverest short comics we've read in a while.