Makin’ Links! #2
*I think the most exciting news in YEARS is that Francoise Mouly (with her Series Advisor Art Spiegelman) is starting her own line of comics for kids called “Toon Books”. I can’t imagine such an important-and fun-initiative and more capable hands for it to be in. Mouly has a website and blog previewing the books (that I much anticipate) and insightful news and talk about kids’ comics.
*More excitement: Beth Davies interviews Fabio Gadducci on what looks to be an incredible new journal on comics scholarship titled Signs. Wait, wait don’t let the word “scholarship” scare you away. This boasts beautiful design and incredible historical art with good people like Fabio, Roger Sabin, Leonardo De Sá, Michel Kempeneers, Roger Sabin, Gene Kannenberg, and Thierry Smoldereen, all of whom I trust. Signs looks to be a real treat! You’ll find all the skinny in Beth’s always excellent column Broken Frontiers.
*Finally: “WHO KNEW?!?”, is the only thing I can exclaim! A major, completely unknown to me, realistically drawn strip ala Alex Raymond and Al Williamson, but with its own incredible licks! Details by Roger Clark on the Carol Day strip by Don Wright here.
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
You’ve done it again, Yoe! You’ve introduced me to a comic strip I’ve never seen before - and I’ve seen a lot of strips! (And I’m a stripper myself, once or twice a year.)
“Carol Day” is brand new to me. I’ll have to spend some time with it and see what I’ve been missing.
The story is as good as the art. Credit Roger Clark with unearthing this gem!