{"id":50,"date":"2006-08-16T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2006\/08\/quick-triple-update\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T00:16:00","slug":"quick-triple-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Quick Triple Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Speaking of the American Comics Group<\/a>, the latest issue of Alter Ego<\/a> serendipitously reprints more or less the entire contents of Michael Vance’s book-length history of the publisher, Forbidden Adventures<\/a>. This is the most significant magazine event of its kind since the famous New Yorker Hiroshima<\/span> issue! Well, maybe not, and I have only glanced at the contents so far, but this should definitely be a good resource for any Richard Hughes or Herbie fans out there.<\/p>\n

2. Most everyone reading this blog probably already knows about the Penguin Classics that have recently been released<\/a> with new covers by cartoonists like Chris Ware, Roz Chast, Seth, and the like. (I think Charles Burns’s version of The Jungle<\/a> and Anders Nilsen<\/a>‘s take on Hans Christian Andersen<\/a> are the best so far.) Another similar, but lower-key, republishing effort is coming out from Small Beer Press<\/a>, a generally reliable imprint run by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. Their Peapod Classics<\/a> line is reprinting forgotten or obscure old fantasy titles with new covers by Kevin Huizenga<\/a>. (I learned about the series from a post by John Scalzi<\/a>.) They just released Howard Waldrop<\/a>‘s debut collection Howard Who?<\/a> This isn’t strictly comics, of course, but I thought it might be of interest to any Huizenga completists out there. And Waldrop’s a pretty funny writer, judging by the two or three stories of his I have previously read. (Fun fact: His novella A Dozen Tough Jobs<\/span>, which retells the story of Hercules in the deep South, is related to the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/span> in much the same way that Dashiell Hammett’s The Glass Key<\/span> is related to Miller’s Crossing<\/span>.)<\/p>\n

3. I got a copy of that Tom McCarthy Tintin book<\/a> I wrote about<\/a> a while ago. I’ve only made it through the first chapter so far, but it really doesn’t appear to be a satirical take on overintellectual criticism at all\u2014just an honest-to-goodness example of it. I’m not giving up on it quite yet, but it may be a while before it makes its way to the top of my reading pile. I feel like a sucker for taking the Economist<\/span> review at face value. British humor<\/a> is so dry, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Speaking of the American Comics Group, the latest issue of Alter Ego serendipitously reprints more or less the entire contents of Michael Vance’s book-length history of the publisher, Forbidden Adventures. This is the most significant magazine event of its kind since the famous New Yorker Hiroshima issue! Well, maybe not, and I have only glanced at the contents so far, but this should definitely be a good resource for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,49,149,562,583,751],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acg","tag-alter-ego","tag-books-about-comics","tag-herge","tag-illustration","tag-huizenga"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}