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The Best American Comics 2009 Dash Shaw, Koren Shadmi, David Sandlin, Ron Regé and more ... Houghton Mifflin Best American $20.00
($22.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		edited by Charles Burns Well, Crumb is a tough act to follow, but we'll give it a shot with this star-studded anthology filled with the best and the brightest from the last twelve months of comics, as judged by Charles Burns.  In a book like this, we feel that the contributor list says it best:  Doug Allen, Peter Bagge, Gabrielle Bell, Matt Broersma, Daniel Clowes, Al Columbia, Robert Dennis Crumb, Sammy Harkham, Tim Hensley, Gilbert Hernandez, Kevin Huizenga, Ben Katchor, Kaz, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Michael Kupperman, Jason Lutes, Tony Millionaire, Jerry Moriarty, Anders Nilsen, Gary Panter, Laura Park, Mimi Pond, Ron Regé, David Sandlin, Koren Shadmi, Dash Shaw, Art Spiegelman, Ted Stearn, Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Dan Zettwoch.  'Nuff said.  Well, actually, we can't help but add that while the material contained in this anthology is absolutely fabulous, the quality of its reproduction is, mysteriously, not up to the same standard as the three previous volumes in this series, which were excellent in that department.  This shouldn't stop anyone from picking up this fine volume, but it is worrisome.  Let's hope that this was a one time aberration and that next year we'll find the fine folks at Houghton Mifflin have figured out what went wrong and put things in the production department back on track.
Insomnia #1 Matt Broersma Fantagraphics Ignatz $6.75
($7.95 list)
Insomnia1
Read more and comment... 		Introducing the Ignatz line -- new from Fantagraphics Books in conjunction with Coconino Press in Italy.  This new, ongoing series is a joint publishing effort of Fantagraphics Books, Italy's Coconino Press and France's L'Association.  The Ignatz series combines the focus on production values of the European graphic novel tradition -- superior grade, heavy interior stock, sharp duo-tone printing, full color wraparound dust jackets -- with the saddle stitched format and periodical release schedule of American comics, to forge a new hybrid with which to drive the medium forward at this time of globalization and artistic transition.  Each is printed in duo-tone on high quality, heavy gauge, magazine size -- 8" x 11" -- cream stock and comes with a full color wrap-around, French-fold dust jacket.  We applaud this encouraging development and wish it much success.  The first three are now in stock: Insomnia #1 by Matt Broersma, whose work we just saw in the third volume of Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, is a creepy "occult-o-noir" (what do you think, should we trademark the term?) tale set on the US/Mexican border.
Drawn and Quarterly Showcase #3 Sammy Harkham, Matt Broersma, Matt Broersma, Geneviève Elverum and more ... Drawn and Quarterly $12.75
($14.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		This issue features a trio of tales by Matt Broersma, Geneviève Elverum, and Sammy Harkham.  Each work features a distinct artistic voice and is distinguished by the artist's personal color palette.  Geneviève Elverum  contributed the cover and opening story.  Her work is rendered in a lush but limited palette of deep blues and reds (and one green) set off against large fields of white punctuated by grey and tells us of a struggle to find a place in the scheme of things.  Readers familiar with Sammy Harkham's tale, "The Poor Sailor," which originally appeared in the fourth issue of his own anthology Title, Kramers Ergot (and which was later collected by David Eggars in his Non-Required Reading series), will feel right at home in this tale of teenage confusion and angst told with his trademark detachment and rendered in a palette of pale reds.   The final piece, Matt Broersma's The Mummy is a multi-layered, self-deconstructing, post-modern pulp tale rendered in black and white and shades of green.
Drawn and Quarterly Showcase #3 Sammy Harkham, Matt Broersma, Matt Broersma, Geneviève Elverum and more ... Drawn and Quarterly $12.75
($14.95 list)
Dqshowcase3
Read more and comment... 		This issue features a trio of tales by Matt Broersma, Geneviève Elverum, and Sammy Harkham.  Each work features a distinct artistic voice and is distinguished by the artist's personal color palette.  Geneviève Elverum  contributed the cover and opening story.  Her work is rendered in a lush but limited palette of deep blues and reds (and one green) set off against large fields of white punctuated by grey and tells us of a struggle to find a place in the scheme of things.  Readers familiar with Sammy Harkham's tale, "The Poor Sailor," which originally appeared in the fourth issue of his own anthology Title, Kramers Ergot (and which was later collected by David Eggars in his Non-Required Reading series), will feel right at home in this tale of teenage confusion and angst told with his trademark detachment and rendered in a palette of pale reds.   The final piece, Matt Broersma's The Mummy is a multi-layered, self-deconstructing, post-modern pulp tale rendered in black and white and shades of green.
Insomnia #2 Matt Broersma $6.75
($7.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Here they are, the next three installments of that swellegant line of superior quality pamphlet comics, the "Ignatz", that is a co-production of Fantagraphics Books and Italy's Coconino Press.  The main attraction is Babel 2 which is the second installment (the first was Babel 1, published in 2004 by Drawn & Quarterly in what was the prototype for the Ignatz line) in the continuation of the epic tale begun in Epileptic.  Babel is a graphic tour de force that no comics connoisseurs will want to miss.  In the second installment of Insomnia, Broersma lightens his palette and turns in what is, in our estimation, the strongest work of his career.  Gipi continues the sombre, rain-washed tales of Italian outcasts in They Found the Car that he offered up in the first installment of "Wish You Were Here", The Innocents.  All three of these are recommended, as are all of the previous installments Ignatz line.  Do yourself a favor and check these out.
Insomia #3 Matt Broersma $6.75
($7.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		(the 25th in the Ignatz series) Another long wait is ended with this release, the best issue yet in Broersma's Insomnia series.