Category Archives: Graphic Literature

Paradox Press: An omnibus review of The Big Book Of … series

Jonathan Vankin’s The Big Book of the ’70s (Paradox Press, 2000) Jonathan Vankin’s The Big Book of Bad (Paradox Press, 1998) Doug Moench’s The Big Book of Conspiracies (Paradox Press, 1995) Bronwyn Carlton’s The Big Book of Death (Paradox Press, … Continue reading

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An interview with Michael William Kaluta

Ian Nicholas Mackenzie here. I took a break from working on our upcoming Brian and Wendy Froud edition to talk in the Pub over a few pints of Guinness with another master artist, Michael William Kaluta. Green Man Review: Why … Continue reading

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DeZ Vylenz’s The Mindscape of Alan Moore

Filmed in 2003, this 78 minute film consists of a one-on-one interview with comic creator Alan Moore, best known for works like From Hell, Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Although Moore does touch on his past and his comic career, … Continue reading

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Christian Sahlen & Johan Nohr’s Cy_Borg

Christian Sahlen & Johan Nohr’s Cy_Borg is sold as a reskin of the previous Mörk Borg. Well this is technically true karma and aesthetically true to the extent they both very much bring to mind a rough you occasionally disturbing … Continue reading

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Nicole Claveloux’s The Green Hand and Other Stories

Nicole Claveloux’s The Green Hand and Other Stories is a collection of graphic fiction from thr 1970s which have only now found themselves in english. The content is varied, yet has a throughline of the odd and just olain weird … Continue reading

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Wayne Vansant’s Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage: The Graphic Novel, June Brigman and Roy Richardson’s Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: The Graphic Novel, and Gary Reed and Frazer Irving’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel

An adaptation of a novel, whether into a movie or a graphic novel, is never a wholly faithful translation. A novel has the advantage of having fewer constraints against length, and as such, paring down a classic into a more … Continue reading

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Charles M. Schulz’s The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952, 1953-1954, and 1955-1956

Subtitled “The Definitive Collection of Charles M. Schulz’s Comic Strip Masterpiece,” this project is set to run for 12 years, at two volumes per annum until every daily strip from the master’s hand is available in a matched set of … Continue reading

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Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier

Hmmmm. It’s all about the cleverness, isn’t it? Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill came up with a brilliant premise in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In an alternate universe, some of the most noted characters in Victorian fiction are recruited … Continue reading

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Alan Moore’s Promethea: Book One

If you don’t know Alan Moore, you don’t know modern fantasy. At least, you don’t know vibrant, witty, sexy, brutal, erudite, mind-blowing, cutting-edge modern fantasy. And you certainly don’t know comics. Alan Moore is the author of the exhaustively researched, … Continue reading

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Joshua Dysart, Enrique Breccia and Timothy Green II’s Swamp Thing: Love in Vain

With Love in Vain, Joshua Dysart took over the reins of Swamp Thing from the rather more erratic storytelling of Andy Diggle, and the difference is obvious. What Dysart has to work with is an extended continuity that’s mostly been … Continue reading

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