Category Archives: Books

Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

By tone | Published: February 9, 2009
Suburbia has never looked better. Tales From Outer Suburbia is Australian illustrator Shaun Tan’s newest book. Having garnered world attention with his first book, The Arrival, his feet are firmly attached with a stronger book with richly inspired illustrations. The juxtaposition of images is a buffet of perpetual food for thought. Shaun takes resemblance and [...]
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Sam’s Strip From Fantagraphics

By tone | Published: February 9, 2009
Sam’s Strip was an experimental strip created by Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas in 1961 and ran for 20 months. Imagine some of the top comic strip characters appearing in one place. This unheralded strip just seems to have vanished for the minds of many. Fantagraphics has the ability to comb through long gone strips [...]
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Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman

By tone | Published: February 9, 2009
Neil Gaiman is the Oscar Wilde of today. Neil can weave modern day fairy tales with ease. His latest offering is Blueberry Girl. There is no subject Neil cannot turn into gold, his sentences spin like a wheel that continuously spits images of wonderment. His words are like a pebble that skips through the water [...]
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I Saw You by Julia Wertz

By tone | Published: February 8, 2009
Inspiration can come from the weirdest places at times. Now here is an original idea. What if you were to take ads from newspapers and Craigslist about lonely hearts looking for companionship? You would put out the word the premise of the book  I Saw You would be that and the base of your drawings [...]
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Dilbert Gets Fired

By tone | Published: February 7, 2009
Dilbert gets fired! “You know, some people are angry,” Adams said. “They think I’m making fun of the unemployed, but most people take it for what it is – just a cartoon and people are saying, ‘You know, it’s nice to have somebody kind of reflect our reality.” Dilbert is trying to make ends meet and paid [...]
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Peanuts: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

By tone | Published: January 26, 2009
Got Milk? Well it seems the Peanuts’ estate has plenty of it. The corpse of Schulz has the market cornered for every holiday on the calender and every birthday with either a Hallmark greeting card or new book on tired old gimmicks. The estate is milking the characters for all it’s worth. The latest is [...]
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Cartoon Marriage

By tone | Published: January 21, 2009
Love and marriage, love and marriage, Go together like a horse and carriage, This I tell you brother, You cant have one without the other. Cartoon Marriage Adventures in Love and Matrimony With Valentine just around the corner, love is beaming in the eyes of many a young girl who is propositioned each year that leads to marriage. This sacred [...]
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Craig Thompson Habibi

By tone | Published: January 15, 2009
Habibi is an Arabic word which means my beloved. That is the way I feel about Craig Thompson’s blog of Blankets fame. His blog explores in full detail his latest one man show called Habibi . It’s amazing to see how the process of an artist/writer who is surrounded by serenity around him and develop a foreign landscape of adventure [...]
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Timeline of the Planet of the Apes

By tone | Published: January 13, 2009
Timeline of the Planet of the Apes Fans are going to go apes with the latest unauthorized book on The Planet of the Apes franchise. This is something real to look forward to in the 40th anniversary celebration of one of the greatest Sci-Fi series ever. Rich Handley handles the whole chronology from Pierre Boulle to Burton’s version of the [...]
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Che: A Graphic Biography

By tone | Published: January 13, 2009
2009 will be the year of Che. He is regarded as either a messiah or a murderer depending from where you come from. One thing is sure the t-shirt business has put any kids through college with his image as a symbol of counter culture. Che: A Graphic Biography, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón collaborated in producing the new [...]
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