Hicksville

I'm not sure why Hicksville has always appealed to me. It has all the abstruse ambiguity that characterizes the kind of literature I usually despise. When I encounter something like, say, a David Lynch film, I always want to make sense of it. I figure there must be some structure and logic, a clearl Leggi tutto

So uh, yeah. I liked the basic point this was making: commercialization kind of ruins things, but it means (in a meta-way, told through the stylistic changes throughout the story), that the masses get a whiff of the really great stuff that's not so commercial and more beautiful and more "art" than ma Leggi tutto

A smart and touching homage to the art of comics, limned with mystery and brimming with so many stories-inside-of-stories that it started to remind me of "At Swim Two-Birds."

This is one I will definitely come back to reread again (which is very rare for me).

I reread this book in preparation for our interview with Dylan Horrocks, and I enjoyed even more this time around. Being familiar with the larger body of Horrocks's comics, I can better appreciate the narrative universe he has created. Throughout many of his texts, he interweaves various characters, Leggi tutto

A kind of love letter to the history of comic books. I really liked it.