dudes, it is time to subscribe to
virginia quarterly review. the folks over at bookslut have been touting its awesomeness for ages, but, foolishly, i didn't pay attention. and so i almost missed art spiegelman's new serialized story, portrait of the artist as a young %@?*! which, by the way, is REALLY GOOD. i was fortunate enough to read a copy tonight and was pretty blown away. i know it'll be published in book form eventually, but do you really want to wait that long? no, you do not. i will be trying to track a copy down locally (i guess it's sacrilegious to go to the regulator on yom kippur, but a quick errand on the way to dinner in durham might just be the thing!).
awesome. spiegelman publishes so infrequently, you forget what a versatile artist he is.
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p.s. fyi, there's a new book out devoted entirely to the alt comics phenomenon, called "alternative comics: an emerging literature" by charles hatfield. i think the book is an extension of his dissertation. looks good, i picked it up yesterday at bull's head, so if you wonder where it is, i got the only copy. :)
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ohhh, i didn't know the hatfield book was out already--thanks!
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