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R. Kikuo Johnson




Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Project Superior R. Kikuo Johnson, Chris Pitzer $17.95
($19.95 list)
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Superior
Read more and comment... 		This is the first great new anthology of the year.  It's chock-a-block with meta-super tales by the best and brightest of the new voices in comics.  We'll have more to say once we get a chance to give it the once over, but for now, you can read this rave review on 4th Rail.
MOME #4 Gary Groth, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, R. Kikuo Johnson and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
($14.95 list)
Mome4
Read more and comment... 		Another great issue of the comics anthology you can't afford to miss is now on our shelves.  The highlight of this issue is another wonderful mythical/historical comics novella by David B., "The Veiled Prophet."  Also on offer are a great new story by Martin Cendreda, "La Brea Woman" that shows him moving in a new direction.  And the gang's all here:  John Pham returns to 221 Sycamore Avenue to provide the cover along with the dream landscape of a high school teacher and his family; Sophie Crumb returns with more tales of street urchins on drugs, Jonathan Bennet and Gabrielle Bell take deft turns at depicting urban melancholy; Jeffrey Brown steps out of his comfort zone and turns in an atypical (and metaphorical) tale of existential angst; and David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Kurt Wolfgang and R. Kikuo Johnson each do their thing and do it well, rounding out another issue where everything is good!
MOME #6 (Winter 2007) Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, Lewis Trondheim, Tim Hensley and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
($14.95 list)
Mome6
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.