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Blab! #13
Blab! Vol. 13
by Various; edited by Monte Beauchamp
The latest, all-new volume cruises with a cover by Rocket USA's ( Futurama tin toy makers) phenomenal robot artist George Eisner, Rolling Stone artists Rob & Christian Clayton, Washington Post contributors Peter& Maria Hoey, and the return of Time Magazine artist Peter Kuper! Also, Raw artist Sue Coe joins Blab! with the six-page story, "Ghost Tiger," and Little Lit illustrator Marc Rosenthal contributes "Une Crise de Style," a tour de-force of two interlocking comic strips. There is also a spotlight on the great Johnson & Smith novelty ads from the '40s, which have influenced Chris Ware and others so strongly. Also featuring contributions from Gary Baseman, Drew Friedman, Stephane Blanquet, Spain, Walter Minus, David Goldin, Laura Levine, Christian Northeast and many more of America's best award-winning illustrators.
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The latest, all-new volume cruises with a cover by Rocket USA's ( Futurama tin toy makers) phenomenal robot artist George Eisner, Rolling Stone artists Rob & Christian Clayton, Washington Post contributors Peter& Maria Hoey, and the return of Time Magazine artist Peter Kuper! Also, Raw artist Sue Coe joins Blab! with the six-page story, "Ghost Tiger," and Little Lit illustrator Marc Rosenthal contributes "Une Crise de Style," a tour de-force of two interlocking comic strips. There is also a spotlight on the great Johnson & Smith novelty ads from the '40s, which have influenced Chris Ware and others so strongly. Also featuring contributions from Gary Baseman, Drew Friedman, Stephane Blanquet, Spain, Walter Minus, David Goldin, Laura Levine, Christian Northeast and many more of America's best award-winning illustrators.
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120 pages, Paperback
First published November 26, 2002
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September 21, 2021
Honestly, Blab #13 is similar to Blab #12. I don't mean that in a bad way. This is quality work from all involved. But it's largely artsy comics stories of varying degrees of abstraction. It's hard to come up with meaningful things to say about them without repeating a lot of my review of the previous one.
Anthologies are never much fun to review. I wind up namechecking a bunch of stories and/ or creators without saying much about any of them.
Probably the standout of this volume for me was "A Spy In the House of Madness" by Camille Rose Garcia. It's dark and surreal and has this playful but grim vibe to it that I just found really satisfying.
This will be the last volume of Blab I review for the foreseeable future. More were published, but this one marks the point at which making weekly trips to the comics shop became financially unsustainable. I still buy graphic novels and manga now and then, but nothing on a regular basis.
As always, Blab is a fine anthology. Recommended!
Anthologies are never much fun to review. I wind up namechecking a bunch of stories and/ or creators without saying much about any of them.
Probably the standout of this volume for me was "A Spy In the House of Madness" by Camille Rose Garcia. It's dark and surreal and has this playful but grim vibe to it that I just found really satisfying.
This will be the last volume of Blab I review for the foreseeable future. More were published, but this one marks the point at which making weekly trips to the comics shop became financially unsustainable. I still buy graphic novels and manga now and then, but nothing on a regular basis.
As always, Blab is a fine anthology. Recommended!
December 9, 2020
As usual, Sue Coe goes over the line in gross where her point gets lost- instead of wanting to do something all you'll want to do is forget the horrors she's way too intimately graphic in representing. I've read a handful and I only remember that an elephant had a horrifying circus life and that a tiger...? I imagine her as a VERY miserable person that spends all day on the same thought pattern.
On the other hand, Camille Rose Garcia composed a six page masterpiece that's too much to explain correctly (complimentarily speaking) right now. It has a beautiful and very pertinent depth inside her creepy/ugly rendered misery.
On the other hand, Camille Rose Garcia composed a six page masterpiece that's too much to explain correctly (complimentarily speaking) right now. It has a beautiful and very pertinent depth inside her creepy/ugly rendered misery.
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