I Read Comics: Show #78

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Show 78 on MP3

Yotsuba 1, by Kiyohiko Azuma
Teenagers From the Future, a collection of Legion essays published by Sequart Research and Literary Organization
Conan and the Blood-Stained Crown, by Kurt Busiek with many artists!
Flight Explorer Vol 1 (this is a link to the Flight blog)

Watching the Watchmen

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Music, as always by Ginger Mayerson

A sleeping child - small, insane, joyful, and finally asleep.

There is an article in today's,12/3, New York Times about Alison Bechdel's comic strip called "Dykes to Watch Out For".

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has just published "The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For", price $25

From the NYT article:

"Plenty of readers, however, needed no introduction to Ms. Bechdel. For more than 20 years she has been the creator of “Dykes to Watch Out For,” a weekly comic strip, printed mostly in college-town alternative newspapers, about the fractious lives and loves of an articulate group of lesbians in a city that resembles Minneapolis.

The strip is sexy, sometimes in an R-rated way — imagine “Doonesbury” with regular references to sex toys — and it’s political, in a feisty, lefty, Greenpeace meets PETA meets MoveOn.org kind of way. Ms. Bechdel’s lesbians wanted to impeach the first George Bush."

There is a slide show from the comic in the NYT article.

By Ed, at 10:02 AM
Thanks for your comments on the Teenagers From The Future book; I'm curious to hear what you thought about my essay, the one on the fashion of the LSH. I'm Martín A. Pérez; aka MaGnUs, writer and fellow comic book internet radio producer/host (I hate the word podcast).

Cheers!

By MaGnUs, at 1:35 AM

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