Wednesday, September 22, 2010

24 Hour Comics

It looks as though the undergrad comics club at UW is putting something together for the 24 hour comics day. Details here if anyone is interested: ttp://uwcomicsclub.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/last-call-to-register/

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Web Comics - Tuesday, September 28


For our next meeting we'll be looking at the wide world of Web comics.

Let's start from the most current of each and read back 20 strips:

CRG Previous Readings List

2010

September 8 - Crime & Violence
Abandon the Old in Tokyo: Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (ed. Adrian Tomine)
Hardboiled by Frank Miller
Transmetropolitan Vol. 1 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertso

August 18
Walt and Skeezix: Book One (Gassoline Alley) by Frank King
Adventures of Tintin: Volume 1 by Hergé

July 28 - Mainstream Essentials
Swamp Thing: Book One by Alan Moore
JLA Earth 2 by Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
June 16
The EC Archives: Vault of Horror Volume 1 - Wally Wood, Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, and Jack Kamen

May 26 - Intersections Between Comics & Academia
Action Philosophers!: The Lives and Thoughts of History's A-List Brain Trust: The More-Than- Complete Edition by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey
Sandman, The: Dream Country - Book III by Neil Gaiman

May 5 - DIY
GangLion issue sampling (http://ganglioncomics.blogspot.com/)
Mcsweeney's Issue 33: the San Francisco Panorama by Dave Eggers (Comics section pullout)
Just the Facts by David Collier

April 9 - Kirb Your Enthusiasm
Kirby Five-Oh!: Celebrating 50 Years Of The "King" Of Comics
Essential Fantastic Four Volume 3 TPB (New Printing) by Jack Kirby

March 17 - The Salinger of Cartooning: Watterson's Holden Caufield?
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson
Book Of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad

Feb 24 - Beyond Gutters
Sempe: Nothing is Simple - by Jean-Jacques Sempé
Poem Strip - by Dino Buzzati
Driven By Lemons by Joshua Cotter
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel by Paul Auster (Mazzucchelli)

Feb 3
Anthology X-Section An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories by Mr. Ivan Brunetti

January 20 - Uber for an Uber
You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation ! by Fletcher Hanks
Superman: Birthright - The Origin of the Man of Steel by Mark Waid


2009

Dec 9 - Religulous
Book of Genesis by Robert Crumb

November 24 - Surreal
Frank-Book by Jim Woodring
The Maxx – Sam Kieth

November 3 - Canadiana
George Sprott: (1894-1975) by Seth Collected Doug Wright, Volume One: Canada's Master Cartoonist by Doug Wright and Lynn Johnston

October 13 - Assorted
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Super Spy by Matt Kindt Sublife #1 by John Pham

September 22 - Noir, grit, emotion, done medium rare
Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke
Daredevil - Born Again by Frank Miller
Fell by Warren Ellis

September 1 - Batmania
Batman and Son by Grant Morrison
Batman: Mad Love – Timm & Dini
Batman: Long Halloween – Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale
Batman: Death Mask by Yoshinori Natsume

August 4 - Godfather of Manga: Osamu Tezuka
Dororo Volume 1-3 by Osamu Tezuka

July 7 - Manga
A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi

June 23 - Surreal & Experimental
Une Semaine De Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard by Eddie Campbell et al

June 2 – Moore-isson
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 3: Century #1 by Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore
All Star Superman VOL 01 by Grant Morrison
Mister Wonderful - Daniel Clowes

May 12
Winsor McCay Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend by Winsor McCay
Dream Of The Rarebit Fiend: The Saturdays by Winsor McCay