Robot 6
Everyone’s A Critic: A round-up of comic book reviews and thinkpieces.
The Color of Earth
Moving quickly, while I’m on break:
* Good Comics for Kids holds an interesting roundtable discussion of Kim Dong Hwa’s The Color of Earth.
* Speaking of roundtables, man, I wish I had gone to TCAF just to catch this panel.
* Time for another lengthy and fascinating essay from Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga co-author Kentaro Takekuma. This time he examines the work of Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo.
* John K. talks about the whys and wherefores of good composition, using Yogi Bear and N.C. Wyeth as examples.
* Noah Berlatsky tears apart Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. Tom Crippen stitches it back together.
* The Guardian’s Rory McLean reviews Burma Chronicles.
* How long does it take you to read a standard comic book page. Neil Cohn ponders this question.
- May 21, 2009 @ 01:25 PM by Chris Mautner
2 Comments
Jack Norris
May 21, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I thought I was going to find an interesting discussion about the shortcomings of Fun Home at that Berlatsky link (I enjoyed the book, but I was open to a well thought out critical piece on it); instead, it was mostly taken up by that whole “brow levels” discussion, which to me was just like a concentrated tincture of purest pointless-waste-of-time.
Pedro Bouça
May 22, 2009 at 2:58 am
After seeing that Takekuma essay I’m EVEN MORE angry that Even a Monkey was never finished in english.
C’mon, Viz! Do it!
Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)