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Monday, February 20, 2012
Tenjo Tenge: "F"
I read Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 5: Full Contact Edition 2-in-1
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
Sunday, February 19, 2012
43rd NAACP Image Awards Winners in Literary Categories
The 43rd NAACP Image Awards winners were announced in a ceremony, February 17, 2012 and broadcast live on NBC.
The 43rd NAACP Image Awards winners - Literature Categories:
Fiction: Reshonda Tate Billingsley, "Say Amen, Again" (Gallery Books)
Nonfiction: Hill Harper, "The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place" (Gotham Books)
Debut author: Lyah Le Flore, "The Strawberry Letter" (Ballantine/Random House)
Biography/autobiography: Harry Belafonte, "My Song" (Knopf)
Instructional: T.D. Jakes, "The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God" (Atria Books)
Poetry: James Golden, "Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems" (iUniverse)
Children: Tony Dungy (author), Ron Mazellan (illustrator), "You Can Be A Friend" (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Little Simon)
Youth/teens: Jeff Burlingame, "Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running" (Enslow Publishers, Inc.)
The 43rd NAACP Image Awards winners - Literature Categories:
Fiction: Reshonda Tate Billingsley, "Say Amen, Again" (Gallery Books)
Nonfiction: Hill Harper, "The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place" (Gotham Books)
Debut author: Lyah Le Flore, "The Strawberry Letter" (Ballantine/Random House)
Biography/autobiography: Harry Belafonte, "My Song" (Knopf)
Instructional: T.D. Jakes, "The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God" (Atria Books)
Poetry: James Golden, "Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems" (iUniverse)
Children: Tony Dungy (author), Ron Mazellan (illustrator), "You Can Be A Friend" (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Little Simon)
Youth/teens: Jeff Burlingame, "Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running" (Enslow Publishers, Inc.)
Friday, February 17, 2012
Review: The Art of the Secret World of Arrietty
VIZ MEDIA
WRITER: Studio Ghibli
ARTISTS: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Hayao Miyazaki, Ai Kagawa, Akihito Yamashita, Studio Ghibli
ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Takami Nieda
ISBN: 978-1-4215-3064-2; soft cover
248pp, Color, $34.99 US, $39.99 CAN, £25.00 UK
The Secret World of Arrietty, a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film, opens in the United States today. Known as The Borrower Arrietty in Japan, it is the latest animated feature film from Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation and film studio founded by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Miyazaki is known for such animated films as the Oscar-winning Spirited Away, the Oscar-nominated Howl’s Moving Castle, and also Princess Mononoke. The Secret World of Arrietty is based upon The Borrowers, the 1952 children’s fantasy novel by Mary Norton.
Although he drew key art sketches and co-wrote the screenplay, Miyazaki is not The Secret World of Arrietty’s director. That honor goes to rising star Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who also did the concept and rough character sketches for Arrietty. Now, readers can take a look behind the scenes of the production of The Secret World of Arrietty in a new book, The Art of the Secret World of Arrietty.
The Art of the Secret World of Arrietty is a full color collection of preliminary concept sketches and rough character sketches, concept sketches, concept art, background art, and character sketches and designs. The book also includes film stills and the complete voice-over script, illustrated with black and white images from the film.
The television campaign to promote The Secret World of Arrietty’s release to theatres is quite good, the best that I’ve seen for a Studio Ghibli movie since the U.S. release of Princess Mononoke. One could also view The Art of the Secret World of Arrietty as promotion for the film; just thumbing through it is enough to convince someone to see the movie. All the beautiful art, sketches, and assorted graphics from the books are tempting samples from the film.
Certainly, fans of the animated films of Studio Ghibli will want this book. Not only is The Art of the Secret World of Arrietty a behind-the-scenes look at the drawing and visual storytelling process of creating The Secret World of Arrietty, but it is also a dreamscape showing off the tremendous artistic and film talent that works at Studio Ghibli.
The Art of the Secret World of Arrietty also has several pages of sketches produced by the master himself, Hayao Miyazaki. These concept sketches have an impressionistic quality, as if Monet had created them as studies for paintings he would later produce. $34.99 is a bargain just to have the Miyazaki sketches.
A
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Leroy Douresseaux Reviews: Lucille graphic novel
TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS
CARTOONIST: Ludovic Debeurme
TRANSLATOR: Edward Gauvin
LETTER: Christopher Ross
ISBN: 978-1-60309-073-5; paperback
544pp, B&W, $29.95 U.S.
Rated: Mature (18+)
Born in 1971, Ludovic Debeurme is a French comic book artist. After studying at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), he was published in the anthology, Comix 2000, and later went on to become an acclaimed graphic novelist. Debeurme’s breakthrough work was Lucille, a graphic novel published by Futuropolis in 2006 and honored at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Top Shelf Productions gave Lucille its English-language debut in 2011.
The novel is set in rural France and centers on two teenagers from families that are dysfunctional to one degree or another. Lucille Flavinsky is a 16-year-old and suffers from anorexia. Abandoned by her father, Lucille battles her mother’s attempts to get her medical help.
Arthur is a teenaged boy whose father, Vladamir, is a fisherman and an alcoholic. Arthur strongly resists inheriting his father’s profession and his father’s family’s traditions. After two chance encounters, Lucille and Arthur become a couple, star-crossed lovers soon on the run to Italy. However, they cannot run away from their families’ complex legacies, nor can they outrace their own personal complexities.
Lucille has a broad reach and scope, playing like both modern fiction and like some potboiler genre piece. Its creator, Ludovic Debeurme, excavates the nuances and intimate details of the lead characters and also reveals essential moments in the lives of many of its supporting characters. That is why Lucille is definitely not a comic book and is certainly a graphic novel. Lucille is complex, and the narrative flows naturally, always frustrating our expectations, but rewarding our patience – so much so that I must wonder if the narrative did not also frustrate its creator.
Several years ago, I was briefly acquainted with a young woman who was suffering from anorexia. She thought she was fat (though she was not) and unattractive (again, not true, at least from my perspective). She had that pale, young waif look that some young women are lucky or opportunistic enough to turn into a career as a model and/or starlet. I found her more pitiful than I felt pity for her. I have to admit to not exactly being sympathetic to women suffering from anorexia, but I’m working on that. This is the reason why my feelings about Lucille fluctuated so much. She annoyed me as much as she intrigued me.
Like the larger narrative, however, Lucille the character is fascinating and mysterious. She is subtle and yet powerful, like Debeurme’s simple line work and evocative compositions. Lucille is tender and stubborn, both the book and its title character. This is a mesmerizing work, and I started out not wanting to read it. I felt obligated because Top Shelf sent me a review copy, but now I can’t act as if this stunning book has not touched me. I am still thinking about it, and because this is the first chapter of a longer story, I want to read on.
A-
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Stephen Eric Bronner: At Home With the Bigot
At Home With the Bigot
By Stephen Eric Bronner, Reader Supported News
14 February 12
Reader Supported News Perspective
Republicans and their conservative allies insist that racism is a thing of the past. But their party still serves as the bastion of anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-black, and anti-feminist activism. Not since the Great Depression has its lower-middle class base experienced such disorientation and disruption. President George W. Bush left them with two failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bursting of the sub-prime housing bubble and the crashing of the derivates market in 2007. And then, on top of it, came the electoral defeat in 2008 that produced the first black president of the United States. Military miscalculation abroad, economic collapse at home, and burning political humiliation fueled the stubborn radicalism and small-minded resentment of what would become the Tea Party. Coming from non-urban areas mostly in the South and the Mid-West, but also from white immigrant enclaves in some big cities, its members have their own forms of moral cognition. They have little use for globalization, the welfare state, new social movements or the "adversary culture" inherited from the 1960s. Wearing revolutionary garb and tricorn hats, disrupting town meetings devoted to healthcare and other social issues, bullying progressive congressional representatives and holding rallies of their own, they constitute a new generation of reactionary activists calling for "revolution" - though, naturally, only one that will protect their privileges and interests.
The Tea Party meshes libertarian capitalists preaching the gospel of the free market and reactionary populists intent upon rehabilitating "family values," rehabilitating religion, and a parochial vision of community. Over the last century, for the most part, these trends were diametrically at odds with one another: Libertarians had little use for rabble-rousing bigots, religious fanatics or the like, while populists hated big business, open markets, and the scientific culture of modernity. Ronald Reagan initially brought these contradictory trends together. He blended the anti-union and de-regulating interests of elites committed to the classical principles of the free market with the cultural conservatism and hyper-nationalism of the old "moral" majority and burgeoning religious movements. George W. Bush built on that coalition. But there was new urgency for an organizational alliance between liberations and populists following the economic collapse of 2008 and subsequent presidential victory of Barack Obama. Fears of dramatic state intervention into the economy blended with horror over the symbolic implications of having a black president for the image of community associated with old television shows like Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and Happy Days. Out of this alliance and these anxieties, indeed, the Tea Party was born in 2009.
The GOP was quick to recognize its importance. Seasoned operatives of the Republican Party were soon offering their advice and leadership. They originally thought the Tea Party might be manipulated. But the opposite took place: the tail wound up wagging the dog. There is an old saying: styles make fights. The new rhetoric was supplied by Fox News and a score of feral media demagogues, among whom Glenn Beck and Michael Savage were merely the most venal. Evangelicals and far-right groups associated with them and others like them, and the Tea Party routinely began referring to President Obama as the Anti-Christ and as an Imam. The bigot applauded. Advertisements compared him and his family to chimpanzees, portrayed the White House with rows of watermelons on the lawn, and implied that the president is a crack addict. But the problem apparently was not the bigot's friends who supposedly hate blacks: it was rather Obama who clearly hates whites. The new president was seen as the advocate of the (black) welfare cheat, the (Latino) immigrant, the anti-Christian (Arab) terrorist, the supposedly overpaid (lazy and shiftless) union worker, and anti-family (feminist and gay) forces. The Tea Party channeled the bigot's prejudices. It would become easy for him to identify with the (white) business elite whose (seemingly color-blind) policies attacking the bureaucratic welfare state appeared intent upon recreating a patriarchal world of white privilege.
Lingering economic recession, fear of radical social and economic reform, and fanatical mobilization (coupled with disillusionment of those expecting yet more radical changes by the new regime) brought about the sweeping victory of the far right in the Congressional elections of 2010. Now it was the Republicans' turn to applaud. The Tea Party was not simply nuts. Challenging the seemingly sacrosanct image of FDR and the New Deal, whatever its racist and intolerant elements, the Tea Party had become the agent of what might be termed capitalist fundamentalism. This meant highlighting the "invisible hand" of the market and the individual (not the accumulation process and class) as the units of social analysis. The state budget could now be equated with a household budget and everyone would now echo the mantra of Margaret Thatcher: "There is no society, there are only individuals." The welfare state would now be condemned (once again) not merely as wasteful - but immoral. Hard work brings rewards. Individuals are responsible for themselves, not others. Lack of ambition and foresight by individuals are the causes of unemployment and poverty. No free rides! Evangelicals know the "truth": no abortions, no condoms, and no gay marriage - women back to the kitchen and gays to the closet.
With the increasing influence of the Tea Party upon the Republican Party, indeed, the once modest home afforded the bigot turned into a mansion. Rooms would prove available especially for someone who is neither white nor male and who seemingly represents the less privileged. Women like former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin or Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota) reaffirm the house-wife or the "soccer mom" in the face of an economy in which the single breadwinner has become an anachronism. A gay couple (two male earners) is trotted out occasionally to congratulate the Tea Party for its libertarian values. There is the Latino Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla), who is apparently terrified by the immigrant mob threatening to invade from South of the border. The bigot has also made friends with an African-American or two. Hermann Cain received his applause for insisting that Blacks were "brain-washed" into supporting the Democratic Party, thereby confirming the bigot's old belief that they are too stupid to favor egalitarian and redistributive policies on their own. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas champions tough love while his (white) wife champions the Tea Party. Then there is Congressman Allen West (R-Fla), whose idea of tolerance is to tell liberals "to get the hell out of the United States" and then identify the Democratic Party with the Nazi propaganda machine. This cast of characters, it should be noted, is not simply useful for propagandizing the undecided: it also reinforces the bigot's idea of what makes a real person of color or a real woman. These political figures validate the benevolent image of a bygone America in which taxes were low, government was small, women were in the kitchen, and the only important color was white.
The clock has already been turned back. A study released on October 29, 2011, by the Bertelsmann Stiftung showed that the United States has plummeted into the bottom five among the thirty nations comprising the industrial world in "Overall Social Justice Rating," "Overall Poverty Prevention Rating," Overall Poverty Rate," "Child Poverty," and "Income Inequality." Libertarian economic policies championed by the Tea Party endanger democratic deliberation, diversity, and cosmopolitan ideals. New socio-economic burdens and constraints also threaten disadvantaged groups. People of color will disproportionately suffer from a flat tax as well as other regressive attempts to shrink the tax base and, subsequently, bankrupt the welfare state. African-Americans and Latinos will be disproportionately impacted by attempts to demand photo-ID, literacy tests, and the like in order to vote. Redistricting and racist zoning regulations are recreating segregation while the uncurbed use of private money in election campaigns is disenfranchising the working people and the poor. Privatizing the prison system has sharply increased incarceration, especially among minority groups: people of color constitute 70% of inmates, nationally, and one in three African-American males is currently either awaiting trial, in jail, or on parole. Since convicts cannot vote, hundred of thousands of primarily African-Americans and people of color are currently being disenfranchised by what has been called the "new Jim Crow."
There is hardly a policy proposal forwarded by the GOP that does not disadvantage people of color, women, and working people - and, worse, there is hardly a single major Republican politician willing to publicly challenge the rhetoric or the proposals of the far right and the Tea Party. The mainstream has justified the extreme. All candidates for the Republican presidential nomination of 2012 seem to worry about a "disappearing white majority" as they take turns in attacking the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "food stamp presidents," and critics of religious dogmatism (as well as the Crusades). White supremacists of varying shades try to recruit and mix with luminaries of the Republican Party at conferences like that hosted by the American Conservative Union. Fragments of half-baked conspiracy theories float around in the minds of many grassroots activists in the Tea Party. Obama may look like he is in charge but (especially since he is black) the more paranoid insist that he is being controlled by more powerful interests and organizations like the Bilderberg banking group, the Trilateral Commission, Freemasons, Islamic terrorists, or Jews - or all of them working in concert. Conspiracy theory is common currency in the Tea Party and, again, there is hardly a single Republican willing to condemn it. Such talk makes no sense and thus frustration grows, resentment increases, and rage intensifies. It is taken out not merely on African-Americans but on other outsiders as well: gays, immigrants, Arabs, and Jews. Bigotry has become a commonplace of political life in the United States. The jargon of prejudice, sometimes veiled and sometimes not, is now so prevalent that most people simply shrug their shoulders. And the Tea Party has been in the vanguard. The influence of their words on action may be indirect: but it is, nonetheless, palpable.
Everyday violence (that mostly goes unreported) against homosexuals, immigrants, and minorities is simply a routine fact of American life. Doctors performing abortions outside the larger cities do so at their own risk. The virtual obsession of the Tea Party with the right to own firearms (including AK-47s) does not merely express a desire to hunt ducks. Mainstream politicians of the Republican Party again fall into line. Sure: explicit calls for the use of violence come only from the margins. Just as the conservative mainstream has helped legitimate the Tea Party, however, the Tea Party is giving new hope to fanatics who stand even further on the right. The Republican Party has lacked the courage to take on the bigots in its own ranks - and its toleration of the Tea Party validates precisely what its ideologues wish to deny: racism is alive and well in the United States. And, all the while, the bigot is smiling. The approving winks that he gets are evident everywhere. What one reaps is what one sows. The prejudices of times past have not disappeared. One just needs to know where to look. Talk about the "end of racism" has become a bad joke. Conservative politics attests to its continuation. The Tea Party will probably find itself in the trashcan of history once Republicans suffer some serious electoral defeats. But its mass base will undoubtedly survive and take new organizational forms as it always has in the past - from the "Know-Nothings" to the KKK to McCarthy to the "Silent Majority" and the "Moral Majority" and God knows what other fringe groups. For the foreseeable future, however, the bigot has no need to worry. With the Republican Party, indeed, he has once again found himself a happy home.
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Stephen Eric Bronner is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of Global Relations at the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights: Rutgers University. The Senior Editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, he is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Bigot for Yale University Press.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.
By Stephen Eric Bronner, Reader Supported News
14 February 12
Reader Supported News Perspective
Republicans and their conservative allies insist that racism is a thing of the past. But their party still serves as the bastion of anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-black, and anti-feminist activism. Not since the Great Depression has its lower-middle class base experienced such disorientation and disruption. President George W. Bush left them with two failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bursting of the sub-prime housing bubble and the crashing of the derivates market in 2007. And then, on top of it, came the electoral defeat in 2008 that produced the first black president of the United States. Military miscalculation abroad, economic collapse at home, and burning political humiliation fueled the stubborn radicalism and small-minded resentment of what would become the Tea Party. Coming from non-urban areas mostly in the South and the Mid-West, but also from white immigrant enclaves in some big cities, its members have their own forms of moral cognition. They have little use for globalization, the welfare state, new social movements or the "adversary culture" inherited from the 1960s. Wearing revolutionary garb and tricorn hats, disrupting town meetings devoted to healthcare and other social issues, bullying progressive congressional representatives and holding rallies of their own, they constitute a new generation of reactionary activists calling for "revolution" - though, naturally, only one that will protect their privileges and interests.
The Tea Party meshes libertarian capitalists preaching the gospel of the free market and reactionary populists intent upon rehabilitating "family values," rehabilitating religion, and a parochial vision of community. Over the last century, for the most part, these trends were diametrically at odds with one another: Libertarians had little use for rabble-rousing bigots, religious fanatics or the like, while populists hated big business, open markets, and the scientific culture of modernity. Ronald Reagan initially brought these contradictory trends together. He blended the anti-union and de-regulating interests of elites committed to the classical principles of the free market with the cultural conservatism and hyper-nationalism of the old "moral" majority and burgeoning religious movements. George W. Bush built on that coalition. But there was new urgency for an organizational alliance between liberations and populists following the economic collapse of 2008 and subsequent presidential victory of Barack Obama. Fears of dramatic state intervention into the economy blended with horror over the symbolic implications of having a black president for the image of community associated with old television shows like Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and Happy Days. Out of this alliance and these anxieties, indeed, the Tea Party was born in 2009.
The GOP was quick to recognize its importance. Seasoned operatives of the Republican Party were soon offering their advice and leadership. They originally thought the Tea Party might be manipulated. But the opposite took place: the tail wound up wagging the dog. There is an old saying: styles make fights. The new rhetoric was supplied by Fox News and a score of feral media demagogues, among whom Glenn Beck and Michael Savage were merely the most venal. Evangelicals and far-right groups associated with them and others like them, and the Tea Party routinely began referring to President Obama as the Anti-Christ and as an Imam. The bigot applauded. Advertisements compared him and his family to chimpanzees, portrayed the White House with rows of watermelons on the lawn, and implied that the president is a crack addict. But the problem apparently was not the bigot's friends who supposedly hate blacks: it was rather Obama who clearly hates whites. The new president was seen as the advocate of the (black) welfare cheat, the (Latino) immigrant, the anti-Christian (Arab) terrorist, the supposedly overpaid (lazy and shiftless) union worker, and anti-family (feminist and gay) forces. The Tea Party channeled the bigot's prejudices. It would become easy for him to identify with the (white) business elite whose (seemingly color-blind) policies attacking the bureaucratic welfare state appeared intent upon recreating a patriarchal world of white privilege.
Lingering economic recession, fear of radical social and economic reform, and fanatical mobilization (coupled with disillusionment of those expecting yet more radical changes by the new regime) brought about the sweeping victory of the far right in the Congressional elections of 2010. Now it was the Republicans' turn to applaud. The Tea Party was not simply nuts. Challenging the seemingly sacrosanct image of FDR and the New Deal, whatever its racist and intolerant elements, the Tea Party had become the agent of what might be termed capitalist fundamentalism. This meant highlighting the "invisible hand" of the market and the individual (not the accumulation process and class) as the units of social analysis. The state budget could now be equated with a household budget and everyone would now echo the mantra of Margaret Thatcher: "There is no society, there are only individuals." The welfare state would now be condemned (once again) not merely as wasteful - but immoral. Hard work brings rewards. Individuals are responsible for themselves, not others. Lack of ambition and foresight by individuals are the causes of unemployment and poverty. No free rides! Evangelicals know the "truth": no abortions, no condoms, and no gay marriage - women back to the kitchen and gays to the closet.
With the increasing influence of the Tea Party upon the Republican Party, indeed, the once modest home afforded the bigot turned into a mansion. Rooms would prove available especially for someone who is neither white nor male and who seemingly represents the less privileged. Women like former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin or Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota) reaffirm the house-wife or the "soccer mom" in the face of an economy in which the single breadwinner has become an anachronism. A gay couple (two male earners) is trotted out occasionally to congratulate the Tea Party for its libertarian values. There is the Latino Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla), who is apparently terrified by the immigrant mob threatening to invade from South of the border. The bigot has also made friends with an African-American or two. Hermann Cain received his applause for insisting that Blacks were "brain-washed" into supporting the Democratic Party, thereby confirming the bigot's old belief that they are too stupid to favor egalitarian and redistributive policies on their own. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas champions tough love while his (white) wife champions the Tea Party. Then there is Congressman Allen West (R-Fla), whose idea of tolerance is to tell liberals "to get the hell out of the United States" and then identify the Democratic Party with the Nazi propaganda machine. This cast of characters, it should be noted, is not simply useful for propagandizing the undecided: it also reinforces the bigot's idea of what makes a real person of color or a real woman. These political figures validate the benevolent image of a bygone America in which taxes were low, government was small, women were in the kitchen, and the only important color was white.
The clock has already been turned back. A study released on October 29, 2011, by the Bertelsmann Stiftung showed that the United States has plummeted into the bottom five among the thirty nations comprising the industrial world in "Overall Social Justice Rating," "Overall Poverty Prevention Rating," Overall Poverty Rate," "Child Poverty," and "Income Inequality." Libertarian economic policies championed by the Tea Party endanger democratic deliberation, diversity, and cosmopolitan ideals. New socio-economic burdens and constraints also threaten disadvantaged groups. People of color will disproportionately suffer from a flat tax as well as other regressive attempts to shrink the tax base and, subsequently, bankrupt the welfare state. African-Americans and Latinos will be disproportionately impacted by attempts to demand photo-ID, literacy tests, and the like in order to vote. Redistricting and racist zoning regulations are recreating segregation while the uncurbed use of private money in election campaigns is disenfranchising the working people and the poor. Privatizing the prison system has sharply increased incarceration, especially among minority groups: people of color constitute 70% of inmates, nationally, and one in three African-American males is currently either awaiting trial, in jail, or on parole. Since convicts cannot vote, hundred of thousands of primarily African-Americans and people of color are currently being disenfranchised by what has been called the "new Jim Crow."
There is hardly a policy proposal forwarded by the GOP that does not disadvantage people of color, women, and working people - and, worse, there is hardly a single major Republican politician willing to publicly challenge the rhetoric or the proposals of the far right and the Tea Party. The mainstream has justified the extreme. All candidates for the Republican presidential nomination of 2012 seem to worry about a "disappearing white majority" as they take turns in attacking the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "food stamp presidents," and critics of religious dogmatism (as well as the Crusades). White supremacists of varying shades try to recruit and mix with luminaries of the Republican Party at conferences like that hosted by the American Conservative Union. Fragments of half-baked conspiracy theories float around in the minds of many grassroots activists in the Tea Party. Obama may look like he is in charge but (especially since he is black) the more paranoid insist that he is being controlled by more powerful interests and organizations like the Bilderberg banking group, the Trilateral Commission, Freemasons, Islamic terrorists, or Jews - or all of them working in concert. Conspiracy theory is common currency in the Tea Party and, again, there is hardly a single Republican willing to condemn it. Such talk makes no sense and thus frustration grows, resentment increases, and rage intensifies. It is taken out not merely on African-Americans but on other outsiders as well: gays, immigrants, Arabs, and Jews. Bigotry has become a commonplace of political life in the United States. The jargon of prejudice, sometimes veiled and sometimes not, is now so prevalent that most people simply shrug their shoulders. And the Tea Party has been in the vanguard. The influence of their words on action may be indirect: but it is, nonetheless, palpable.
Everyday violence (that mostly goes unreported) against homosexuals, immigrants, and minorities is simply a routine fact of American life. Doctors performing abortions outside the larger cities do so at their own risk. The virtual obsession of the Tea Party with the right to own firearms (including AK-47s) does not merely express a desire to hunt ducks. Mainstream politicians of the Republican Party again fall into line. Sure: explicit calls for the use of violence come only from the margins. Just as the conservative mainstream has helped legitimate the Tea Party, however, the Tea Party is giving new hope to fanatics who stand even further on the right. The Republican Party has lacked the courage to take on the bigots in its own ranks - and its toleration of the Tea Party validates precisely what its ideologues wish to deny: racism is alive and well in the United States. And, all the while, the bigot is smiling. The approving winks that he gets are evident everywhere. What one reaps is what one sows. The prejudices of times past have not disappeared. One just needs to know where to look. Talk about the "end of racism" has become a bad joke. Conservative politics attests to its continuation. The Tea Party will probably find itself in the trashcan of history once Republicans suffer some serious electoral defeats. But its mass base will undoubtedly survive and take new organizational forms as it always has in the past - from the "Know-Nothings" to the KKK to McCarthy to the "Silent Majority" and the "Moral Majority" and God knows what other fringe groups. For the foreseeable future, however, the bigot has no need to worry. With the Republican Party, indeed, he has once again found himself a happy home.
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Stephen Eric Bronner is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of Global Relations at the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights: Rutgers University. The Senior Editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, he is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Bigot for Yale University Press.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.
Hayate the Combat Butler: Vegas Vacation
I read Hayate the Combat Butler, Vol. 19
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
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Monday, February 13, 2012
I Reads You Review: THE STRANGE CASE OF MR. HYDE #2
DARK HORSE COMICS
WRITER: Cole Haddon
ART: M.S. Corley
COLORS: Jim Campbell
LETTERS: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
32pp, Color, $3.50 U.S.
The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde is a four-issue comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. The film weaves together the Jack the Ripper legend with characters from the novella, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by author Robert Louis Stevenson. Ultimately, the series pits Mr. Edward Hyde against the Whitechapel Murderer (Jack the Ripper) with, Thomas Adye, a London police inspector caught in the middle.
Inspector Adye believes that the Whitechapel Murderer is empowered by the same serum that turned Dr. Henry Jekyll into Edward Hyde. The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde #2 finds Adye returning to the bowels of Scotland Yard to meet with Hyde’s creator, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and now, Adye has to make a deal with this devil. Soon, Adye, Jekyll, and two police officers are off to Whitechapel where violence, bloodshed, death, and a taste of Hyde are waiting for Adye.
As I wrote in my review of the first issue of The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde, this is a great read, and it remains so. I love the eye-catching visual style of series artist, M.S. Corley, which recalls woodcut engraving and Kevin O’Neill’s art on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book series. Corley’s unique graphics capture a down and dirty, but attractive late-century London, and convey the tension and excitement of the action sequences. Think of this as Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes in comics.
The best thing that writer Cole Haddon gives the readers in this second issue is more of Dr. Jekyll. Haddon’s supernaturally sly Jekyll has a devilish charm that would scare even the Devil himself. I found myself anticipating his every word, so much that I’ve read the pages in which he appears several times.
A
Sunday, February 12, 2012
"Arthur: The Legend Continues" at 2012 MegaCon
Cosmic Times presents
Arthur: The Legend Continues Volume I - The Collected Edition
Written By Martin T. Pierro - Artwork by Cristhain "Crizam" Zamora
About Arthur: The Legend Continues:
With the world as we know it gone, mankind is on the verge of extinction yet still struggling to find purpose and hope.
From the ancient past a glimmer of light shines and a legend returns to claim his throne. Facing challenges never imagined in his time, King Arthur shall rise again and bring the mighty Excalibur to the throats of all who wish to do harm to his people.
Arthur: The Legend Continues takes the legendary king from his "death" on an ancient battlefield to a village on the brink of destruction in a post-apocalyptic future. As the once and future king tries to find his place in this strange new world, he soon discovers that danger lurks around every corner and this new world is more deadly and mysterious than he could possibly imagine
Arthur: The Legend Continues is the flagship series from Cosmic Times and originally premiered at Orlando’s MegaCon in 2009. Now to celebrate the collection of the first volume Cosmic Times has created an extremely limited MegaCon exclusive trade paperback featuring a stunning cover by Dan Mann. Volume I will collect the original 106 pages of the series along with seven never before seen pages of deleted scenes. This exclusive edition will have a limited print run of 25 copies and can only be purchased at MegaCon starting February 17th at the Cosmic Times booth - Indy Press 7. A regular edition will be released soon after.
About Cosmic Times
Established in 2009, Cosmic Times has become a small-press favorite with such diverse titles as Decisions, From Blood and Souled. Publisher Martin T. Pierro (who named Cosmic Times after a fanzine he published back in the mid 80s while still in middle school) is continuing to focus on his goal of making Cosmic Times into a true independent publishing house that focuses on quality storytelling.
More information about Cosmic Times and Arthur: The Legend Continues can be found at -
http://www.cosmictimes.net/.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Leroy Douresseaux Reviews: THE ART OF PONYO
VIZ Media
WRITER: Hayao Miyazaki
ARTIST: Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli
ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Takami Nieda
ISBN: 978-1-4215-3064-2; soft cover
272pp, Color, $34.99 US, $39.99 CAN, £25.00 UK
Ponyo is a 2008 animated film written and directed by famed Japanese film director, Hayao Miyazaki, and made by the company he co-founded, Studio Ghibli. Walt Disney Pictures released the fantasy film in North America in 2009. Pixar, the American computer animation company, supervised the production of Ponyo’s English dub.
According to Miyazaki, Ponyo is a reworking of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid,” placed in a contemporary Japanese setting. Readers can learn facts like that and also get a wide open, behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of Ponyo in VIZ Media’s English-language publication of The Art of Ponyo. It’s a treat for people who love “Art of…” books that focus on animated featured films.
The Art of Ponyo features a generous selection of concept sketches, concept art, backgrounds, character sketches and designs, and film stills (of scenes from Ponyo). Readers shouldn’t think for a minute that they won’t get to see any drawings done by Miyazaki. According to the book, he drew all the concept sketches, and the book is littered with wonderful Miyazaki drawings which give us a small peek into this revered director’s creative process. One page even features a storyboard Miyazaki drew himself.
The book includes numerous examples of both Ponyo concept art, which was produced by the staff of Studio Ghibli, and character sketches and designs produced by Katsuya Kondo, the supervising animator of Ponyo. Also included are the complete voice-over script for the English-language release of the film and interviews with four of the guiding hands behind the film, including Kondo and Art Director Noboru Yoshida.
The list of people who will want The Art of Ponyo is long: animation aficionados, fans of Miyazaki, libraries, and people who’ve bought previous Miyazaki-related art books. People who remember the “Art of” books that Hyperion published in the 1990s for Walt Disney animated films (such as The Lion King) will also want The Art of Ponyo, a superbly produced book full of wonderful movie art. Chances are the movie will also be wonderful.
A
Friday, February 10, 2012
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: The D1 Grand Prix Begins!!
I read Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Vol. 2 (Yu-Gi-Oh! (Graphic Novels))
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Review: TUROK: SON OF STONE Volume 8
DARK HORSE BOOKS
WRITER: Paul S. Newman
ARTIST: Alberto Giolitti
ISBN: 978-1-59582-641-1; hardcover
240pp, Color, $49.99 U.S., $54.99 CAN
The late author and writer of comic books and comic strips, Paul S. Newman, is apparently credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific comic book writer in history. Newman, who died at the age of 75 in 1999, not only wrote for Marvel Comics, but also for the two earlier versions of the publisher, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics. He wrote for DC Comics, Archie Comics, and St. John Publications, among others. Newman is best remembered for his 26-year-tenure writing the comic book series, Turok, Son of Stone.
Turok is a fictional Native American comic book character that first appeared in Four Color Comics #596 (cover dated October/November 1954). In 1956, Turok received his own title, Turok, Son of Stone. The series, which actually began with Turok, Son of Stone #3, was published by Dell Comics, later by Gold Key Comics, and finally by Whitman Comics (an imprint of Turok’s owner, Western Publishing).
A pre-Columbian Indian (Native American), Turok and his brother, Andar, were trapped in an isolated valley populated by dinosaurs, Stone Age-type humans, and other assorted cave men types. Turok and Andar referred to this strange land as the Lost Valley, and the brothers called the dinosaurs, “honkers,” for the noise they made. The brothers struggle to survive while searching for a way out of Lost Valley, which is surrounded by seemingly impregnable and sky-reaching cliffs.
Through its Dark Horse Archives line, Dark Horse Books is reprinting Turok, Son of Stone. Dark Horse sent me a copy of Turok, Son of Stone Volume 8 for review. It reprints Turok, Son of Stone #44-50 (cover dates March 1965 to March 1966), which were published by Gold Key. All the stories are written by Paul S. Newman and are drawn by Alberto Giolitti, an artist of whom I’d never heard.
Seven issues might not seem like a lot of material for an archival collection. At the time of publication, however, issues of the Turok, Son of Stone ranged from 28 to 38 pages of comics and story. And boy, what comics and stories they are.
There are few pages of this book in which Paul S. Newman does not have Turok and Andar living with the specter of death hanging over them. However, Newman’s “action comics” are not of the constant titillation or throw-everything-at-the-wall variety. Newman’s storytelling is natural, as he offers tales of survival – man vs. man and man vs. nature. These are thrilling tales of wild adventure in a natural world.
A good example of this is issue #44’s “The End of the World,” in which a meteor shower sends the denizens of the Lost Valley into panic. All the complications the duo faces and all those obstacles to overcome are natural, rather than supernatural, even in a book about dinosaurs. These include a forest fire, a stampede, animal attacks, and tribal warfare. In a way, Newman is practically writing these Turok stories as frontier adventures. Newman doesn’t leave his readers without some weirdness; there is issue #48’s “The Top of the World,” a creepy and scary tale about abominable snowmen.
All of these stories are brought to life as comics by Alberto Giolitti, who was born in Rome, Italy and eventually became an American citizen. In these Turok, Son of Stone comic books, Giolitti is a brilliant storyteller, and his compositions reveal a level of draftsmanship that was likely matched by few of his peers in the mid-1960s. [Right now, I can think of only Alex Toth.] Giolitti’s depiction of the Lost Valley includes exotic jungles, massive cliffs, craggy mountaintops, dank caverns, alien jungles, lush forests, striking desert vistas, and inventive underwater scenes – all done with an illustrator’s grasp of landscapes. Y’all, this Giolitti fellow is incredible. I doubt that there are more than a handful of comic book artists working today who could draw like Giolitti – Mark Schultz, maybe, and I doubt he could draw six issues a year.
Every issue of Turok, Son of Stone also has extras about the natural world, the early history of man, and trivia and details about Native Americans. Although much of this material is probably outdated, it adds a nice touch to the naturalistic storytelling of Newman and Giolitti. I always wondered what the Turok comic books were like. If I’d known they were this good, I would have sought them out a long time ago. At $49.99, Turok, Son of Stone Volume 8 is a bargain because the quality it offers is worth more.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Bleach: Fear for Fight
I read Bleach, Vol. 38: Fear for Fight (Bleach (Graphic Novels))
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Bakuman: Talent and Pride
I read Bakuman., Vol. 9
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The Secret World of Arrietty Arrives in Books Stores February 7th
VIZ MEDIA BRINGS THE WONDROUS MINIATURE ADVENTURES OF STUDIO GHIBLI’S THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY TO READERS IN A NEW SERIES OF BOOKS
Releases Based On The New The Film By Hayao Miyazaki’s Famed Animation Studio Include Film Comics, Art And Picture Books
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, brings the miniaturized adventure of famed Studio Ghibli’s newest animated creation – THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY – to readers everywhere with a collection of ARRIETTY film comics, art and picture books set to debut on February 7th, 2012. THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY is scheduled for North American theatrical release on February 17th, 2012.
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY is based on the celebrated novel, The Borrowers, by Mary Norton and was produced by Studio Ghibli, the famed animation company founded by Hayao Miyazaki, which also created Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo. The new film, with planning/screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, will feature the voice talents of Bridget Mendler, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett and Will Arnett for its English language release.
Arrietty isn’t your ordinary fourteen-year-old girl – she is small enough to make her home under the floorboards of a typical house, “borrowing” what she and her family need from the giants in whose shadows they live. A young boy named Shawn befriends Arrietty, but when adults discover the Borrowers, Arrietty and Shawn must work together to save her family.
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY PICTURE BOOK • Rated “A” for All Ages • MSRP: $19.99 U.S. / $22.99 CAN • Available February 7th, 2012
The colorful and easy-to-read THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Picture Book is a full-color hardcover edition that will appeal to younger readers especially. The book uses the vividly colored animation cel art from the feature film combined with simplified text to retell the story of Arrietty and her adventures.
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY FILM COMICS • Rated “A” for All Ages • MSRP: $16.99 U.S. each / $19.99 CAN each • Available February 7th, 2012
The official 2-volume film comic of THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY re-tells the film’s story with vivid full-color frames.
THE ART OF THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY • Rated “A” for All Ages • MSRP: $34.99 U.S. / $39.99 CAN • Available February 7th, 2012
Co-founded by the legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli films enthrall and enchant audiences across the world. The Art of series gives fans the opportunity to follow their favorite film from initial concept to the silver screen, thanks to hundreds of sketches, concept drawings, and animation cels, plus in-depth interviews with the creators.
“Fans and readers of all ages won’t want to miss these new additions to VIZ Media’s Studio Ghibli Library of titles,” says Masumi Washington, Senior Director, Editorial. “Studio Ghibli has mastered the ability to tell poignant and engaging stories that captivate both children and adults, and their latest film, THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY, continues this tradition. Our forthcoming picture book and film comics are fun ways for young readers to visit the world of ARRIETTY while the gorgeous art book will be a must-have for the ardent Studio Ghibli fan or those who want to know more about the evolution of the film. Discover the adventures in-store for this band of ‘borrowers’ in these new releases scheduled for February!”
More information on VIZ Media’s Studio Ghibli titles is available at http://www.viz.com/.
Releases Based On The New The Film By Hayao Miyazaki’s Famed Animation Studio Include Film Comics, Art And Picture Books
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, brings the miniaturized adventure of famed Studio Ghibli’s newest animated creation – THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY – to readers everywhere with a collection of ARRIETTY film comics, art and picture books set to debut on February 7th, 2012. THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY is scheduled for North American theatrical release on February 17th, 2012.
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY is based on the celebrated novel, The Borrowers, by Mary Norton and was produced by Studio Ghibli, the famed animation company founded by Hayao Miyazaki, which also created Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo. The new film, with planning/screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, will feature the voice talents of Bridget Mendler, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett and Will Arnett for its English language release.
Arrietty isn’t your ordinary fourteen-year-old girl – she is small enough to make her home under the floorboards of a typical house, “borrowing” what she and her family need from the giants in whose shadows they live. A young boy named Shawn befriends Arrietty, but when adults discover the Borrowers, Arrietty and Shawn must work together to save her family.
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY PICTURE BOOK • Rated “A” for All Ages • MSRP: $19.99 U.S. / $22.99 CAN • Available February 7th, 2012
The colorful and easy-to-read THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Picture Book is a full-color hardcover edition that will appeal to younger readers especially. The book uses the vividly colored animation cel art from the feature film combined with simplified text to retell the story of Arrietty and her adventures.
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY FILM COMICS • Rated “A” for All Ages • MSRP: $16.99 U.S. each / $19.99 CAN each • Available February 7th, 2012
The official 2-volume film comic of THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY re-tells the film’s story with vivid full-color frames.
THE ART OF THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY • Rated “A” for All Ages • MSRP: $34.99 U.S. / $39.99 CAN • Available February 7th, 2012
Co-founded by the legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli films enthrall and enchant audiences across the world. The Art of series gives fans the opportunity to follow their favorite film from initial concept to the silver screen, thanks to hundreds of sketches, concept drawings, and animation cels, plus in-depth interviews with the creators.
“Fans and readers of all ages won’t want to miss these new additions to VIZ Media’s Studio Ghibli Library of titles,” says Masumi Washington, Senior Director, Editorial. “Studio Ghibli has mastered the ability to tell poignant and engaging stories that captivate both children and adults, and their latest film, THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY, continues this tradition. Our forthcoming picture book and film comics are fun ways for young readers to visit the world of ARRIETTY while the gorgeous art book will be a must-have for the ardent Studio Ghibli fan or those who want to know more about the evolution of the film. Discover the adventures in-store for this band of ‘borrowers’ in these new releases scheduled for February!”
More information on VIZ Media’s Studio Ghibli titles is available at http://www.viz.com/.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Listen, Whitey! Fantagraphics Bookstore Kicks Off Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month on February 4 at Fantagraphics Bookstore with two new books on the Civil Rights movement.
Fantagraphics Bookstore kicks off Black History Month on Saturday, February 4 with the debut of two diverse books. Seattle-based music scholar Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey!: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965 – 1975, will be joined by Seattle authors Mark Long and Jim Demonakos, who together with cartoonist Nate Powell created the graphic novel The Silence of Our Friends.
While researching this book project in Oakland, archivist Pat Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews, and music by noted activists Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, and others that form the framework of this definitive retrospective. Listen, Whitey! also chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records’ Black Power subsidiary label, Black Forum, which released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael, Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby and Ossie Davis, among others. Obscure records produced by African-American sociopolitical organizations of the period are examined, along with the Isley Brothers, Nina Simone, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Watts Prophets, Roland Kirk, Horace Silver, Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown, Stanley Crouch, and others that spoke out against oppression.
Thomas will give a slide and music presentation, and limited number of advance copies of the book will be available to the public. Also making its debut is a companion CD of the same title from Seattle- based Light in the Attic records. The album features rare tracks from African-American activists like Dick Gregory, Eldridge Cleaver, Last Poets, and others, with protest music by Bob Dylan, John and Yoko Ono, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Harper, and more.
The Silence of Our Friends is the semi-autobiographical tale of Mark Long. Set in 1967 Texas against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle, a white family from a notoriously racist suburb and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston’s color line, overcoming fear and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. Co-authored by Jim Demonakos (founder of Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon), and drawn by award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature.
Saturday, February 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.)
In Seattle’s colorful Georgetown neighborhood.
Phone 206.658.0110.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
"Before Watchmen" - Watchmen Prequel Comic Books Announced
The following was taken from a DC Comics blog post written by David Hyde:
DC ENTERTAINMENT OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES “BEFORE WATCHMEN”
This summer, DC Entertainment will publish all-new stories expanding on the acclaimed WATCHMEN universe. As highly anticipated as they are controversial, the seven inter-connected prequel mini-series will build on the foundation of the original WATCHMEN, the bestselling graphic novel of all time. BEFORE WATCHMEN will be the collective banner for all seven titles, from DC Comics.
“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.”
Stepping up to the challenge is a group of the comic book industry’s most iconoclastic writers and artists – including Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS), Lee Bermejo (JOKER), Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL), Darwyn Cooke (JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER), John Higgins (WATCHMEN), Adam Hughes (CATWOMAN), J.G. Jones (FINAL CRISIS), Andy Kubert (FLASHPOINT), Joe Kubert (SGT. ROCK), Jae Lee (BATMAN: JEKYLL AND HYDE), J. Michael Straczynski (SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE) and Len Wein (SWAMP THING).
BEFORE WATCHMEN includes:
RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo
MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke
COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones
DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes
NITE OWL (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artists: Andy and Joe Kubert
OZYMANDIAS (6 issues) – Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Jae Lee
SILK SPECTRE (4 issues) – Writer: Darwyn Cooke. Artist: Amanda Conner
Each week, a new issue will be released, and will feature a two-page back-up story called CURSE OF THE CRIMSON CORSAIR, written by original series editor Len Wein and with art by original series colorist John Higgins. There will also be a single issue, BEFORE WATCHMEN: EPILOGUE, featuring the work of various writers and artists, and a CRIMSON CORSAIR story by Wein and Higgins.
“The original series of WATCHMEN is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC’s reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire,” said Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN co-creator and original series artist.
“Comic books are perhaps the largest and longest running form of collaborative fiction,” said DiDio and Lee. “Collaborative storytelling is what keeps these fictional universes current and relevant.”
DC ENTERTAINMENT OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES “BEFORE WATCHMEN”
This summer, DC Entertainment will publish all-new stories expanding on the acclaimed WATCHMEN universe. As highly anticipated as they are controversial, the seven inter-connected prequel mini-series will build on the foundation of the original WATCHMEN, the bestselling graphic novel of all time. BEFORE WATCHMEN will be the collective banner for all seven titles, from DC Comics.
“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.”
Stepping up to the challenge is a group of the comic book industry’s most iconoclastic writers and artists – including Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS), Lee Bermejo (JOKER), Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL), Darwyn Cooke (JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER), John Higgins (WATCHMEN), Adam Hughes (CATWOMAN), J.G. Jones (FINAL CRISIS), Andy Kubert (FLASHPOINT), Joe Kubert (SGT. ROCK), Jae Lee (BATMAN: JEKYLL AND HYDE), J. Michael Straczynski (SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE) and Len Wein (SWAMP THING).
BEFORE WATCHMEN includes:
RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo
MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke
COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones
DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes
NITE OWL (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artists: Andy and Joe Kubert
OZYMANDIAS (6 issues) – Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Jae Lee
SILK SPECTRE (4 issues) – Writer: Darwyn Cooke. Artist: Amanda Conner
Each week, a new issue will be released, and will feature a two-page back-up story called CURSE OF THE CRIMSON CORSAIR, written by original series editor Len Wein and with art by original series colorist John Higgins. There will also be a single issue, BEFORE WATCHMEN: EPILOGUE, featuring the work of various writers and artists, and a CRIMSON CORSAIR story by Wein and Higgins.
“The original series of WATCHMEN is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC’s reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire,” said Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN co-creator and original series artist.
“Comic books are perhaps the largest and longest running form of collaborative fiction,” said DiDio and Lee. “Collaborative storytelling is what keeps these fictional universes current and relevant.”
I Reads February 2012
Welcome to I Reads You, my blog about the comic books and books I Read. Sometimes I’ll comment on other things. I’m Leroy Douresseaux, and I have another blog: http://www.negromancer.com/. I also write for the Comic Book Bin (which has smart phones apps and comics).
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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NOV110798 SERGIO ARAGONES FUNNIES #7 $3.50
NOV110800 SIMPSONS ILLUSTRATED #1 $3.99
NOV110734 SONIC SUPER SPECIAL MAGAZINE #2 $9.99
NOV110735 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #233 $2.99
DEC110870 STITCHED #1 NYCC EXC ED (MR) $3.99
DEC111024 THE LONE RANGER #2 $3.99
DEC110920 VALEN OUTCAST #3 MAIN CVRS $3.99
DEC111016 VAMPIRELLA TP VOL 02 $16.99
NOV110897 WARLORD OF MARS ANNUAL #1 (MR) $4.99
DEC110985 WARLORD OF MARS FALL OF BARSOOM TP VOL 01 $17.99
DEC110974 WARRIORS OF MARS #1 (MR) $3.99
NOV110738 WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #14 $3.99
MAGAZINES
DEC111660 COLOR INK DIY ART PERIODICAL VOL 13 $10.00
NOV111011 HEAVY METAL MARCH 2012 (MR) $6.95
SEP111388 NEWTYPE DEC 2011 #55 $16.00
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sakura Hime: A Sly Snow Spirit
I read Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura , Vol. 6
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Tegami Bachi: Light Shining Upon Darkness
I read Tegami Bachi, Vol. 8
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan - The Three Keikain Siblings
I read Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 7
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
Thursday, January 26, 2012
A Devil and Her Love Song manga: Devil Girl/Angelic Voice
I read A Devil and Her Love Song, Vol. 1
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has free comics).
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Dawn of the Arcana: What is the Arcana?
I read Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 2
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps and comics).
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 25 2012
DC COMICS
MAY110257 ABSOLUTE KINGDOM COME EDITION HC NEW PTG $99.99
SEP110215 ADD HC (MR) $24.99
NOV110181 ALL STAR WESTERN #5 $3.99
NOV110229 AMERICAN VAMPIRE #23 (MR) $2.99
NOV110109 AQUAMAN #5 $2.99
SEP110180 BATMAN AND ROBIN WHITE KNIGHT DARK KNIGHT HC $22.99
OCT110241 BATMAN BEYOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TP $16.99
NOV110140 BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #5 $2.99
NOV110178 BLACKHAWKS #5 $2.99
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NOV110121 DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS #22 $2.99
NOV110113 FLASH #5 $2.99
NOV110117 FURY OF FIRESTORM THE NUCLEAR MEN #5 $2.99
NOV110158 GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #5 $2.99
SEP110186 HAWKMAN BY GEOFF JOHNS OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 $75.00
NOV110168 I VAMPIRE #5 $2.99
NOV110104 JUSTICE LEAGUE #5 $3.99
NOV110107 JUSTICE LEAGUE #5 COMBO PACK $4.99
NOV110163 JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #5 $2.99
NOV110190 LEGION SECRET ORIGIN #4 (OF 6) $2.99
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NOV110122 SAVAGE HAWKMAN #5 $2.99
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NOV110219 UNCHARTED #3 (OF 6) $2.99
NOV110239 UNWRITTEN #33.5 (MR) $2.99
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MAY110257 ABSOLUTE KINGDOM COME EDITION HC NEW PTG $99.99
SEP110215 ADD HC (MR) $24.99
NOV110181 ALL STAR WESTERN #5 $3.99
NOV110229 AMERICAN VAMPIRE #23 (MR) $2.99
NOV110109 AQUAMAN #5 $2.99
SEP110180 BATMAN AND ROBIN WHITE KNIGHT DARK KNIGHT HC $22.99
OCT110241 BATMAN BEYOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TP $16.99
NOV110140 BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #5 $2.99
NOV110178 BLACKHAWKS #5 $2.99
OCT110246 CATWOMAN TP VOL 01 $29.99
NOV110121 DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS #22 $2.99
NOV110113 FLASH #5 $2.99
NOV110117 FURY OF FIRESTORM THE NUCLEAR MEN #5 $2.99
NOV110158 GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #5 $2.99
SEP110186 HAWKMAN BY GEOFF JOHNS OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 $75.00
NOV110168 I VAMPIRE #5 $2.99
NOV110104 JUSTICE LEAGUE #5 $3.99
NOV110107 JUSTICE LEAGUE #5 COMBO PACK $4.99
NOV110163 JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #5 $2.99
NOV110190 LEGION SECRET ORIGIN #4 (OF 6) $2.99
OCT110247 RESURRECTION MAN TP VOL 01 $29.99
NOV110122 SAVAGE HAWKMAN #5 $2.99
NOV110129 SUPERMAN #5 $2.99
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NOV110183 TEEN TITANS #5 $2.99
NOV110219 UNCHARTED #3 (OF 6) $2.99
NOV110239 UNWRITTEN #33.5 (MR) $2.99
NOV110176 VOODOO #5 $2.99
Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 25 2012
MARVEL COMICS
NOV110536 ALPHA FLIGHT #8 $2.99
NOV110626 ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN AND WOLVERINE TP $19.99
NOV110579 ASTONISHING X-MEN #46 $3.99
NOV110501 AVENGERS SOLO #4 (OF 5) $3.99
NOV110629 AVENGERS SOLO AVENGERS CLASSIC TP VOL 01 $24.99
NOV110535 CAPTAIN AMERICA AND BUCKY #626 $2.99
NOV110610 CAPTAIN AMERICA BY ED BRUBAKER PREM HC VOL 01 $19.99
NOV110573 DAKEN DARK WOLVERINE #20 $2.99
NOV110632 DAREDEVIL BY BRUBAKER AND LARK ULT COLL TP BOOK 01 $29.99
NOV110611 DAREDEVIL BY MARK WAID PREM HC VOL 01 $19.99
NOV110588 DEADPOOL #49.1 $2.99
NOV110544 FANTASTIC FOUR #602 $2.99
NOV110542 FF #14 $2.99
NOV110618 FF BY JONATHAN HICKMAN PREM HC VOL 02 $24.99
NOV110484 MIGHTY THOR #10 $3.99
NOV110601 MMW UNCANNY X-MEN TP VOL 04 $24.99
NOV110602 MMW UNCANNY X-MEN TP VOL 04 DM VAR ED $24.99
NOV110631 OFF HANDBOOK OF MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z TP VOL 03 $19.99
NOV110634 RED SKULL INCARNATE TP $15.99
NOV110499 SECRET AVENGERS #21.1 $2.99
NOV110557 SPIDER-MAN #22 $2.99
NOV110630 STRIKEFORCE MORITURI TP VOL 01 $34.99
NOV110518 ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES #6 $3.99
NOV110645 WOLVERINE WOLVERINE VS X-MEN TP $15.99
NOV110583 X-MEN LEGACY #261 $2.99
NOV110643 X-MEN LEGACY AFTERMATH TP $15.99
NOV110536 ALPHA FLIGHT #8 $2.99
NOV110626 ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN AND WOLVERINE TP $19.99
NOV110579 ASTONISHING X-MEN #46 $3.99
NOV110501 AVENGERS SOLO #4 (OF 5) $3.99
NOV110629 AVENGERS SOLO AVENGERS CLASSIC TP VOL 01 $24.99
NOV110535 CAPTAIN AMERICA AND BUCKY #626 $2.99
NOV110610 CAPTAIN AMERICA BY ED BRUBAKER PREM HC VOL 01 $19.99
NOV110573 DAKEN DARK WOLVERINE #20 $2.99
NOV110632 DAREDEVIL BY BRUBAKER AND LARK ULT COLL TP BOOK 01 $29.99
NOV110611 DAREDEVIL BY MARK WAID PREM HC VOL 01 $19.99
NOV110588 DEADPOOL #49.1 $2.99
NOV110544 FANTASTIC FOUR #602 $2.99
NOV110542 FF #14 $2.99
NOV110618 FF BY JONATHAN HICKMAN PREM HC VOL 02 $24.99
NOV110484 MIGHTY THOR #10 $3.99
NOV110601 MMW UNCANNY X-MEN TP VOL 04 $24.99
NOV110602 MMW UNCANNY X-MEN TP VOL 04 DM VAR ED $24.99
NOV110631 OFF HANDBOOK OF MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z TP VOL 03 $19.99
NOV110634 RED SKULL INCARNATE TP $15.99
NOV110499 SECRET AVENGERS #21.1 $2.99
NOV110557 SPIDER-MAN #22 $2.99
NOV110630 STRIKEFORCE MORITURI TP VOL 01 $34.99
NOV110518 ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES #6 $3.99
NOV110645 WOLVERINE WOLVERINE VS X-MEN TP $15.99
NOV110583 X-MEN LEGACY #261 $2.99
NOV110643 X-MEN LEGACY AFTERMATH TP $15.99
IDW Publishing from Diamond Distributors for January 25 2012
IDW PUBLISHING
NOV110292 30 DAYS OF NIGHT ONGOING #4 $3.99
OCT110379 DEAD RISING ROAD TO FORTUNE #3 (OF 4) $3.99
NOV110312 GODZILLA KINGDOM OF MONSTERS #11 $3.99
NOV110253 INFESTATION 2 #1 (OF 2) $3.99
NOV110348 LIL ABNER HC VOL 04 $49.99
NOV110315 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ONGOING #6 $3.99
NOV110260 TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE ONGOING #1 $3.99
NOV110292 30 DAYS OF NIGHT ONGOING #4 $3.99
OCT110379 DEAD RISING ROAD TO FORTUNE #3 (OF 4) $3.99
NOV110312 GODZILLA KINGDOM OF MONSTERS #11 $3.99
NOV110253 INFESTATION 2 #1 (OF 2) $3.99
NOV110348 LIL ABNER HC VOL 04 $49.99
NOV110315 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ONGOING #6 $3.99
NOV110260 TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE ONGOING #1 $3.99
Dark Horse Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 25 2012
DARK HORSE COMICS
NOV110019 ANGEL & FAITH #6 REBEKAH ISAACS VAR CVR $2.99
NOV110018 ANGEL & FAITH #6 STEVE MORRIS CVR $2.99
SEP110039 AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 01 PROMISE PART 1 $10.99
NOV110013 BPRD HELL ON EARTH RUSSIA #5 $3.50
OCT110056 CARDCAPTOR SAKURA DARK HORSE OMNIBUS ED TP VOL 03 $19.99
OCT110060 CREEPY ARCHIVES HC VOL 12 $49.99
NOV110025 CREEPY COMICS #7 $4.99
NOV110041 KING CONAN PHOENIX ON THE SWORD #1 (OF 4) ROBINSON CVR $3.50
OCT110059 MANARA LIBRARY HC VOL 02 $59.99
OCT110063 SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON ARCHIVES HC VOL 03 $49.99
NOV110048 THE IMMORTAL DEMON I/T BLOOD #2 $3.50
NOV110049 USAGI YOJIMBO #143 $3.50
NOV110019 ANGEL & FAITH #6 REBEKAH ISAACS VAR CVR $2.99
NOV110018 ANGEL & FAITH #6 STEVE MORRIS CVR $2.99
SEP110039 AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 01 PROMISE PART 1 $10.99
NOV110013 BPRD HELL ON EARTH RUSSIA #5 $3.50
OCT110056 CARDCAPTOR SAKURA DARK HORSE OMNIBUS ED TP VOL 03 $19.99
OCT110060 CREEPY ARCHIVES HC VOL 12 $49.99
NOV110025 CREEPY COMICS #7 $4.99
NOV110041 KING CONAN PHOENIX ON THE SWORD #1 (OF 4) ROBINSON CVR $3.50
OCT110059 MANARA LIBRARY HC VOL 02 $59.99
OCT110063 SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON ARCHIVES HC VOL 03 $49.99
NOV110048 THE IMMORTAL DEMON I/T BLOOD #2 $3.50
NOV110049 USAGI YOJIMBO #143 $3.50
Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 25 2012
IMAGE COMICS
AUG110417 ARTIFACTS ORIGINS ONE SHOT $3.99
NOV110363 BULLETPROOF COFFIN DISINTERRED #1 (OF 6) (MR) $3.99
OCT110541 DARKNESS #98 (MR) $2.99
AUG110517 ELEPHANTMEN #37 (MR) $3.99
SEP110460 EPOCH #4 (OF 5) $3.99
NOV110451 GREEN WAKE #9 (MR) $3.50
SEP110473 MARKSMEN #5 (OF 6) $2.99
APR110511 MICE TEMPLAR VOL 3 #7 MICHAEL AVON OEMING CVR $2.99
APR110512 MICE TEMPLAR VOL 3 #7 SANTOS & GANDINI CVR $2.99
NOV110371 NANCY IN HELL ON EARTH #1 (OF 4) (MR) $3.99
OCT110475 SAM & TWITCH COMPLETE COLLECTION HC VOL 02 $29.99
NOV110472 WALKING DEAD #93 (MR) $2.99
SEP110493 WITCHBLADE #152 CVR A CHRISTOPHER $2.99
SEP110494 WITCHBLADE #152 CVR B BERNARD & BENES $2.99
AUG110417 ARTIFACTS ORIGINS ONE SHOT $3.99
NOV110363 BULLETPROOF COFFIN DISINTERRED #1 (OF 6) (MR) $3.99
OCT110541 DARKNESS #98 (MR) $2.99
AUG110517 ELEPHANTMEN #37 (MR) $3.99
SEP110460 EPOCH #4 (OF 5) $3.99
NOV110451 GREEN WAKE #9 (MR) $3.50
SEP110473 MARKSMEN #5 (OF 6) $2.99
APR110511 MICE TEMPLAR VOL 3 #7 MICHAEL AVON OEMING CVR $2.99
APR110512 MICE TEMPLAR VOL 3 #7 SANTOS & GANDINI CVR $2.99
NOV110371 NANCY IN HELL ON EARTH #1 (OF 4) (MR) $3.99
OCT110475 SAM & TWITCH COMPLETE COLLECTION HC VOL 02 $29.99
NOV110472 WALKING DEAD #93 (MR) $2.99
SEP110493 WITCHBLADE #152 CVR A CHRISTOPHER $2.99
SEP110494 WITCHBLADE #152 CVR B BERNARD & BENES $2.99
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