McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
by Dave Eggers, Chris Ware
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Pada halaman pertama, tertera keterangan sbb di bawah judul buku, "An Assorted Sampler of North American Comic Drawings, Strips, and Illustrated Stories, etc." Benar sekali, dan variasinya memang benar2 menarik. Editor tamu edisi McSweeney kali ini, Chris Ware, dalam artikelnya mencoba menjelaskan bahwa profesi komikus tidaklah seenak yang dikira orang2 pada umumnya. Bahwa komik bukanlah hanya sekedar untuk memancing reaksi tertentu (tawa) atau hanya mengisyaratkan tema tertentu (super...more
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Read in February, 2008
I've had this sitting on my shelf for couple years now, and decided to finally tackle it in the wake of reading the Chris Ware-edited Best American Comics. To be honest, I found it a little daunting; it's a beautifully designed book, but the elaborate packaging and preponderance of academic essays on early and esoteric cartoonists made the whole thing seem more like a textbook than something I'd, you know, actually want to read. Even the dust jacket folds out into a newspaper broadsheet...more
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Read in March, 2008
When I went searching for a McSweeney's book, to finally experience the collections, this was the volume I found. I wasn't really sure what to expect; I thought these shrink-wrapped bricks might have been more short story than graphic novel. And I hate to say it, but I skipped over some of the comics and almost all of the essays. There is a lot of overlap with last year's The Best American Comics 2007, which...more
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recommends it for:
people with eyes
All David Eggers, head honcho over at McSweeney's, needs to do to shed his pretensions is to step out of his area of expertise. The high point of this collection is no doubt Chris Ware's exquisite cover. Alone, it is worth the price of this hardcover. The low point of the issue is that most - if not all - of the comics it presents are excerpts of larger works, such as Charles Burns' "Black Hole", Joe Sacco's Sarajevo books, and Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers"...more
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Read in June, 2007
If you want to introduce the medium to someone new (who is not a genre person) this is the best place to start. A great anthology that covers pretty much all the styles of comic art being produced today outside of the mainstream. It also has some great work that both contextualizes comics culturally and historically. Not all the stories are jaw-dropping and some of seem to be included simply because the creator is so famous or influential (Seth, Crumb) but the mini-comics included and the Chr...more
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Normally I avoid McSweeney's as they seem the hight of literary pretentions AND hipsterdom, two of my least favorite things. This volume, however, is brilliant. The packaging is marvelous (I will give that to McSweeney's - their packaging is always fantastic), with a massive, fold out cover by Chris Ware and two mini-comics tucked into the folds. The content is just as good and covers a wide bredth of styles, both graphic and writing. Well worth the large chuck of cash I put down for this.
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Read in July, 2004
This issue of McSweeney's is a delicious 200+ page hardcover full of comics and writing about the artform. My only disappointment is that much of the art is excerpted from larger works. The upside to that is that I was only familiar with a fraction of those works, so now I have lots of new graphic novels to check out.
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Read in July, 2005
this was a pretty fun read. some of the comics weren't as good as others, but what can you expect. also, it was a bargain at something like 10 dollars for a beautiful hardcover color book. i'd reccomend it to anyone who was curious about this stuff or going on a plane
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Graphic novels are not just about super heros, and this issue of McSweeny's proves it. I think the short stories in this collection deserve to be called liturature despite the fact that all of the stories are constucted out of pictures.
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Read in June, 2006
Check out the Lynda Barry comic in this book.
Amazingly brilliant. Let's give her a Pulitzer. Or a Harvey. Hell, let's start an award called the Lynda. No. The Marlys.
Wait, there's other pages in the book?
Amazingly brilliant. Let's give her a Pulitzer. Or a Harvey. Hell, let's start an award called the Lynda. No. The Marlys.
Wait, there's other pages in the book?
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Read in August, 2007
chris ware edited this hardcover of collected comics - the same stable of A list underground folks as usual - interspersed with articles...sort of like a fancy coffeetable book of Raw magazine
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In addition to the many excellent comics and essays herein, Chris Ware's brilliant editorship is felt as a second presence whispering perverse wisdom into the reader's ear.
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Read in April, 2006
This book has just about everyone who's making comics right now. Lots of history and criticism that is as interesting and entertaining as the comics themselves.
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Read in January, 2005
Scary good design. Intricate. Beautiful. Individually, the comics inside are, well, meh. But the overall aesthetic created by the compendium is breathtaking.
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If the material doesnt hook you, the packaging will. Read McSweeny's. Go ahead. Read it. Read it regularly. You will thank me later.
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Read in August, 2007
I thought at first that all of the comics were going to be about suicide and that that was the theme of the book. Glad I was wrong.
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a beautiful production, particularly the chris ware foldout dustjacket. a remarkable overview of comics.
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Read in January, 2005
recommends it for:
r.a. kosasih
this is why i keep postponing my plan to put a bullet each in dave eggers balls
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this might be the most lovely thing on my bookshelf.
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