Comments on: Links to kill time until the office closes early http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:32:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Johanna http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2795071 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:11:04 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2795071 Thanks, Kurt! Thanks, Kurt!

]]> by: Kurt Busiek http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2794823 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:28:07 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2794823 Johanna -- Whatever the problem with Tom's link, you can find what I assume is the source material he was reporting here: http://tinyurl.com/8scmk6 It's a Comics Journal messageboard thread, tinyurl'd for length. It has quotes from Chris Oliveros and Jeet Heer. What the upshot of it all is, I dunno. Bu I love the series, so I'm hoping it continues for a good long time. I want the 40s and 50s stuff! kdb Johanna –

Whatever the problem with Tom’s link, you can find what I assume is the source material he was reporting here:

http://tinyurl.com/8scmk6

It’s a Comics Journal messageboard thread, tinyurl’d for length. It has quotes from Chris Oliveros and Jeet Heer.

What the upshot of it all is, I dunno. Bu I love the series, so I’m hoping it continues for a good long time. I want the 40s and 50s stuff!

kdb

]]> by: Torsten Adair http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2794582 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:09:14 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2794582 Well, I like educational/non-fiction comics. (Educational... there's a buzzkill word. NEVER tell a kid something's "educational", they'll tune it out.) The Edu-Manga titles were enjoyable, although the Astro Boy narration was a bit inelegant. I wouldn't have read a biography about any of the subjects otherwise (yes, I know... they are all important people) so they were worth the effort. The best biographical comics (avoiding memoirs and autobiographies) are probably the Paradox "Big Books", recently reprinted by Metro Books. The Graphic Biography series from Farrar, Straus and Giroux are well done, as are Harvey Pekar's books about other people. (Hmmm... what if Harvey Pekar collaborated with Rick Geary?) For History, Rick Geary and Larry Gonick do it best. Geary finds the interesting and unusual (a book on President Garfield?), and Gonick adds a bit of humor to his narratives. Non-fiction biography/business profile comics are always going to be a bit clunky, because the narrative must be shortened to tell the seminal events in less than 200 pages. Unless the events are somewhat unusual, like "Mr. Benihana: The Rocky Aoki Story". That works pretty well for bio-manga. Well, I like educational/non-fiction comics. (Educational… there’s a buzzkill word. NEVER tell a kid something’s “educational”, they’ll tune it out.) The Edu-Manga titles were enjoyable, although the Astro Boy narration was a bit inelegant. I wouldn’t have read a biography about any of the subjects otherwise (yes, I know… they are all important people) so they were worth the effort.

The best biographical comics (avoiding memoirs and autobiographies) are probably the Paradox “Big Books”, recently reprinted by Metro Books. The Graphic Biography series from Farrar, Straus and Giroux are well done, as are Harvey Pekar’s books about other people. (Hmmm… what if Harvey Pekar collaborated with Rick Geary?)

For History, Rick Geary and Larry Gonick do it best. Geary finds the interesting and unusual (a book on President Garfield?), and Gonick adds a bit of humor to his narratives.

Non-fiction biography/business profile comics are always going to be a bit clunky, because the narrative must be shortened to tell the seminal events in less than 200 pages. Unless the events are somewhat unusual, like “Mr. Benihana: The Rocky Aoki Story”. That works pretty well for bio-manga.

]]> by: Johanna http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2794560 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:37:05 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2794560 The Spurgeon link goes to a mostly-blank page. Did he take the story down? The Spurgeon link goes to a mostly-blank page. Did he take the story down?

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2794539 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:04:14 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/12/31/links-to-kill-time-until-the-office-closes-early/#comment-2794539 That's right. I'm gonna tell ya'll what not to do. Actually, this will be helpful to anyone who's thinking of submitting there work... well, anywhere. Plus, it'll be amusing to anyone who's had to deal with submissions. Now, I truly understand why DC has there submissions orientations, at conventions. That’s right. I’m gonna tell ya’ll what not to do. Actually, this will be helpful to anyone who’s thinking of submitting there work… well, anywhere. Plus, it’ll be amusing to anyone who’s had to deal with submissions. Now, I truly understand why DC has there submissions orientations, at conventions.

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