#new york review comics

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Nancy and Sluggo's Guide to Life 

by Ernie Bushmiller FINALLY!  Ernie Bushmiller's iconic classic, Nancy is back in print, thanks to the fine folks at New York Review Comics – and Denis Kitchen, who provides the forward to this volume – the first of many, we can only hope.  It's hard to believe that a strip so beloved by so many and so central to the history of comics has been completely out of print for close to a decade.  But, the drought is now officially over – it's here: 148, 8 1/2" x 11" pages in glorious black & white.

Now available up on our site, HERE.

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Sadly, Chris Reynolds died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday morning, 4 May 2023. (He had secondary cancer. He was 62.)

Chris wanted me to thank everyone who knew him, and everyone who read/saw his work.

A Celebration of Chris event is being organised, to display some of his wonderful work, and more details will be given here soon. Lx

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The Tamakis' "Roaming"

Tomorrow (September 12) at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. On September 14, I'm hosting the EFF Awards in San Francisco.

Cousins Mariko Tamaki and #JillianTamaki are a graphic storytelling powerhouse, and their latest title, Roaming (from Drawn and Quarterly) is a stunner:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/roaming/

Roaming is the story of three young Canadian women meeting up for a getaway to New York City. Zoe and Dani are high-school best friends who haven't seen each other since they graduated and decamped for universities in different cities. Fiona is Dani's art-school classmate, a glamorous and cantankerous artist with an affected air of sophistication.

The three young women check into a youth hostel for a hotly anticipated long weekend, which turns into a complicated and moody marathon of debauchery, bonding, feuding, flirting, resentments and wonders.

The Tamakis' specialty is capturing the charged sexuality, subtle friendship power-moves, and intense but brittle friendship between young women. They're very good at it, which is why they won a Governor General's prize for their 2014 blockbuster This One Summer:

https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/06/review-this-one-summer/

With Roaming we get a dizzying, beautifully wrought three-body problem as the three protagonists struggle with resentments and love, sex and insecurity. The relationships between Zoe, Dani and Fiona careen wildly from scene to scene and even panel to panel, propelled by sly graphic cues and fantastically understated dialog.

Meanwhile, NYC looms large as it only could in a story about young Canadians in the City. It's hard to overstate the glamour with which New York looms in the imagination of (many) young Canadians. Hence the old joke: "How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb? Two: one to change the bulb and one to go to New York and make sure lightbulbs are still cool." Or: "Toronto is New York run by the Swiss; the city that never sleeps…in."

I was one of those Canadian adolescents drunk on New York, on several occasions, and even today the City can just floor me. The Tamakis nailed this, from the facial expressions to the body-language of their characters, the push-pull of wanting to go to all the tourist traps and not wanting to be the kind of rube who goes to all the tourist traps.

All my female friends have stories of growing up in intense, three-way friendships that were forever turning into two-on-one fights, with allegiances shifting from moment to moment. Roaming tells the story of one such triangle, forming and shattering and re-forming in a sorefooted, exhilarating weekend in the greatest city in the world (TM). It's a love story about friendship and the transition from adolescence to adulthood, perfectly precise in its depiction of very specific people in a very specific time and place, and yet absolutely universal in the truths it reveals.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/11/as-canadian-as/#possible-under-the-circumstances

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A Look Back at X-Men Adventures Season II #9 (1994)

Disclaimer: This is my original work with details sourced from reading the comic book and doing personal research. Anyone who wants to use this article, in part or in whole, needs to secure first my permission and agree to cite me as the source and author. Let it be known that any unauthorized use of this article will constrain the author to pursue the remedies under R.A. No. 8293, the Revised…

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Life Tools: Loving Autumn Part 2 By Susan Hanniford Crowley

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Sirens of the City the trade paperback is out now! You neeeeeeed to grab yourself a copy! Written by Joanne Starer and illustrated by Khary Randolph! Lettered by AndWorldDesign ❤️‍🔥

[thecomicsnexus]

Get Back!: The Return to New York saga - TMNT comics

The Shredder forced them out of their home and their lives. A year later, they will return to New York, to finally put an end to the Shredder. But they will find out that the Shredder wasn't as mortal as they thought.

[copcomco]

Spiral and Other Stories by Aidan Koch

Now in stock and available for immediate shipping.

>> HERE <<

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from The New World: Comics From Mauretania by Chris Reynolds

[ahb-writes]

Comics Review: 'Destiny, NY' #4: Winter Forever

Destiny, NY #4: Winter Forever by Pat Shand, Elisa Romboli, Jim Campbell

action

adult magical girl

LBGTQIA

urban fantasy

violence

My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars

The creative team has hit its stride with this volume. This is, admittedly, a rather cheeky assessment for an ongoing comic with a dozen side stories and several years of success as an independent title under its belt. However, DESTINY, NY v4 proves quite clearly this creative team works best when the narrative is at a crescendo and when the stakes are at their highest. All endings feel like beginnings under a shroud of juvenile discontent and all successes feel like a thousand tiny failures with agendas all of their own. But DESTINY, NY v4 knits all of them together with such alacrity that readers won't realize they've blitzed through a dozen subplots all nice and neat and with time to spare.

To wit, each primary and secondary character of this story is working through two or more difficult relationships or dynamics that feed into the greater narrative. It took a few years to get all of the pieces into place, but as this volume concludes, it's a fairly impressive effort. Trinity is rounding the corner with her kinship with Augusten and her relationship with Anthony; Cherry wrestles with how to motivate her brave-idiot boyfriend as well as navigate the treacherous terrain of yielding to ex-best-friend, Mary-Bette; Logan is stuck, trying to will into focus her love for her pot-dealer friend, Taylor, and her allegiance to the fragmented emotions still lingering from her affection for Lilith. It's like this for every single character.

Previous volumes proved challenging to follow given the awkward but necessary pendulum of shifting focus. It hasn't always been clear why all of these characters are interrelated, assuming, indeed, they need be intertwined at all. Alas, DESTINY, NY v4 relishes the crescendo. The senator is making his final move, and Joe and the others know it. But everyone has their own idea of what it means to fight back. Lilith is going through the magical underground. Anthony, Gia, and Meadow are training. And Logan, naturally, happens to be in the wrong (right?) place at the wrong (right?) time.

But again, for some reason, all endings feel like beginnings in this comic book.

The showdown with Trakgnar feels anticlimactic until it doesn't. The spiraling drama of Logan's affections for Taylor's undeniable sweetness feels impenetrable until it doesn't. And the chicane of fortune that coils ahead of a certain gangster-ass barista always feels like it's too long, too winding, and too chaotic for any human to bear, until it isn't. DESTINY, NY v4 begins with a bang and spends the remainder of its pages ducking and weaving the shrapnel. Relationships sour, and are then re-patched. Confidence in the truth wanes, and then flares up again. Courage and humility are never overrated.

Romboli returns on art duties and the result, again, is phenomenal. It's hard to explain how important it is to have a flexible artist for a story like this. Shand's scripts are packed with dialogue and prioritize an overlapping and linkage of emotions that bridge one scene into the next. And yet, Romboli doesn't shirk the critical responsibility of knowing when and how to shift the plane of perspective or vary the intensity of a mistrustful gaze. The continuity errors are minimal, and the diversity of page compositions and application of screentones prove black-and-white comics can shine more brilliantly than four-color comics when the creative team is on the ball.

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Scenes From New York Comic Con 2023: Day Four (Part 2)

Scenes From New York Comic Con 2023: Day Four (Part 2)

Hey there my friends, its now time to welcome you to the second installment from the Day Four exploration of the famed New York Comic Con, and as previously noted, this will end the day to day coverage pieces that you’ve been enjoying for the last week or so. Doing it in this fashion does take a little more time but its truly wonderful to be able to share so much content with you all. As this…

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In Review: Five Points - A Warren Mackie Casefile

In Review: Five Points - A Warren Mackie Casefile. A cracking opener for a new crime-noir graphic novel series by Simon Furman and Martin Stiff

Comic creators Simon Furman and Martin Stiff have combined forces to deliver a brilliant, spooky crime thriller with their graphic novel, Five Points – A Warren Mackie Casefile. Available worldwide exclusively via Amazon’s print-to-order service, crime-noir meets supernatural thriller in style in this moody tale, which has already met with deserved praise for its tight plotting, script and art,…

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today, @thepeoplesjoker finally sees a theatrical release, starting in NYC and spreading like wildfire to theaters across the country and almost certainly beyond. here are some non-spoilery screenshots of my scene!

i’m honored to have been asked to be a small part of this film; i animated a scene right in the middle of the movie in 2021 while i was finishing my senior year of college, as well as matte paintings used as backgrounds throughout - and recently i got to animate the logo, designed by @michaeldeforgecomics!

all movies take a herculean collaborative effort to get made, but the people’s joker has been supported by the good will of so many people just to get seen. @veradrew22 and @brilerose have made THE true trans comic book movie, equal parts funny, thrilling, emotional, and reflective of modernity. it’s been one of the most artistically rewarding experiences of my life, and i’m beyond excited for y’all to finally see it. i’m obviously biased, but this is my favorite movie, and it would be even if i didn’t work on it. she’s finally free and getting her due, and i couldn’t be happier!

if you somehow want more of me waxing poetic about TPJ, check out the review i did on my letterboxd. and to see other people do it instead, peruse one of the fuckmillion articles that have been out in major publications throughout the production; it’s been in indiewire, variety, the hollywood reporter, polygon, @brokenpencilmag, even the goddamn new york times! that’s wild. the whole thing is wild.

do yourself a favor and see this movie; it represents the possibilities of embracing outsider art, and of a world where IP law is less “for narcs, by narcs.”

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A Look Back at Amazing Spider-Man #320 (1989)

Disclaimer: This is my original work with details sourced from reading the comic book and doing personal research. Anyone who wants to use this article, in part or in whole, needs to secure first my permission and agree to cite me as the source and author. Let it be known that any unauthorized use of this article will constrain the author to pursue the remedies under R.A. No. 8293, the Revised…