McSweeney's 13
by Dave Eggers
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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 June, 2008
Now, I wouldn't normally post my views of a periodical here, but this is a bit different. Published as 250-odd page hardcover book, McSweeney's 13 deserves some critical consideration. It's a bit of a flash-point for independent comics. Some of the most important names (if not necessarily the best talents) are represented in its page - Chris Ware, David Heatley, Ivan Brunetti, and many others.
The format of this book is great - much more compelling than The Best American Comics series. Ea...more
The format of this book is great - much more compelling than The Best American Comics series. Ea...more
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Read in June, 2008
recommends it for:
Illustration and sequential art enthusiasts.
McSweeney's collections are always worth a look, not least because of the really incredible amount of work the editors go through in finding the best and most appropriate selections for their volumes.
Collection 13 is no exception. The focus this time is on comics and illustration and wide range is given as to how to define what is and is not an illustrated story within the confines of the book. There are several new(ish) and independent authors / artists represented as well as a few famili...more
Collection 13 is no exception. The focus this time is on comics and illustration and wide range is given as to how to define what is and is not an illustrated story within the confines of the book. There are several new(ish) and independent authors / artists represented as well as a few famili...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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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 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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Read in June, 2008
A stunning book, created and produced with immense skill and care. If, towards the end, I started to get a bit tired of reading about failed and struggling relationships, that's probably just because I read the book out of order and left those ones till the end. The book only deals with one narrow area of comics - independents created by writer/artists - but since that's an area that's often hard to notice behind the glare and pizazz of mainstream comics that's easy to forgive.
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A collection of good contempo-comics/graphic novel excerpts --- a nice change from the ole un-illustrated prose I usually read. Devourable in a couple of days. A very nice object (McSweeney's knows how to make us happy in that regard, don't they?). The book jacket itself unfolds into a large poster version of a beautiful comic strip, so pleasing to the eye that I know of at least one friend who has had it framed and hung it on his wall.
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Read in January, 2003
This book single-handedly brought me back to loving comic books. Somewhere along the way, I had come to associate comic books with crap like Archie. McSweeney's showed me a whole new world of comics - comics that are politically and/or socially aware, tell interesting personal stories, and sometimes have really good, really interesting artwork. So hooray for McSweeney's 13!
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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 January, 2005
recommends it for:
visual learners
McSweeney's is first and foremost concerned with pulling you out of your comfort zone. I first read this when I was into fiction, and I found it opened the world of graphic novels to me. The sheer variety of style and voice is amazing, and a great jumping off point if you're looking for something new.
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Read in May, 2004
Ron Regé Jr's piece, a loose little booklet accompanying this issue, is a gut-wrenching, tear-inducing, illustrated version of a transcript between a female suicide bomber and an Israeli soldier. I'd give it 4-stars, but I have to add an extra one for the gorgeous layout and Chris Ware's cover piece.
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Ignore the painful and sincere research and eloquent writing that makes up this edition. Continue to deny that graphic artists are some of the best writers of our time( and they draw!). Take the jacket off the book and , as you think your thoughts, unfold it with care. Frame and hang where suitable.
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comics compilation ed. by chris ware. Highlights include the hilarious "the little nun", "sof' boy", and stuff by David Heatley. Also has exerpt of black hole by c. burns and clyde fans by seth. The book has all the it crowd regulars. :(
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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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There's a litte slip of a zine inside the cover fold. Read it. For the rest, I find it so well-designed that I pay more attention to the design than the reading material, but that's not a flaw. Begins with an Ira Glass essay.
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Read in January, 2005
recommends it for:
anyone interested in graphic art
my sister got this as part of a mcsweeney's quarterly subscription, she was unimpressed. but it has fueled my interest in graphic story-telling, there's so much more out there than superheroes and gary larsen.
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