By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 3/30/2016
It was a fantastic day for artful, intelligent comics when the New York Review of Books added comics to its publishing line. The focus so far is on making obscure graphic novels available again, and the March 22 release of Mark Beyer’s riotous Agony sets an interesting tone for the line. Beyer’s work, which is about the size […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 10/26/2015
Even as the dead leaves rattle through the dooryard, turkeys gargle their last calls and pumpkin spice invades our dreams, there are still a few more comic events to come, including, just this weekend, the Locust Moon Festival in Philadelphia (disclosure: an advertiser on this site.) A lively event for a burgeoning local comics scene, the Locust Moon Fest, run by the comic shop of the same name, will have a stellar guest line up this year, including Chris Claremont, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alexa Kitchen, Ronald Wimberly, Craig Thompson and Dean Haspiel, among many others...and now...Mark Beyer!
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 10/21/2015
New comics company alert! This is one that has been brewing for a while and you will not believe where it's coming from. The New York Review of Book, a publication that usually has the word "august" appended to it, is launching a line of graphic novels, with new editions of classic works by Mark Beyer, Blutch, Glen Baxter and more. The new imprint is in the tradition of their NYRB Classics line of prose reprints (And also a little reminiscent of Dover's recent efforts along those lines.)
Drool
Well written article too
More of this please
I agree.
Heidi, you know how you used to ask your readers what they wanted more of?
This.
Coverage of amazing comics that you might not easily find on other comic/pop-culture sites that are well written, and not the cut-and-paste pr releases we’re used to.
[…] The Beat – New York Review of Books’ new comics line is off to an amazing start […]
How come Blutch is not a better known artist in the states right now? I think his only translated books are Peplum and So long silverscreen. But the man’s a prodigy with a large number of published works in Europe.