Daily Archives: 7 August 2008

Jack Kamen RIP

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, journalBy Matthias Wivel 7 August 2008

Classic EC Comics artist Jack Kamen has just passed away at the age of 88. Although always understandably regarded as the weakest of the EC Artists, he was the most subversive in some ways. His wholesome illustrative style, and perennially healthy looking, mannequin-like characters doing nasty things to each other, in themselves act out a…

From Stage to Panels

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticismBy Matthias Wivel 7 August 2008

Andy Konky Kru has posted the entirety of Joseph Franz von Goez’ 1783 comic Leonardo und Blandine over on his indispensible site for pre-modern and early modern comics, Bugpowder. And It’s a treat: while by no means great art, its tight sequencing, relying on histrionic moment-to-moment renderings of the characters’ love and grief, is fascinatingly…