Credits are incorrect on the Free Comic Book Day site, they should read:
It should read:
James Kochalka, Gabrielle Bell, Josh Neufield, Dean Haspiel, King Crab and Joel Orf, David Lasky, Robert Ullman, Derk Sakai, Jen Sorensen, Damon Hurd and Tatiana Gill, and Jed Alexander.
Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 2274 Location: Gainesville, Florida, USA
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 12:11 pm Post subject:
Today I visited the two local comic book stores participating in Free Comic Book Day here in Gainesville, Florida. There were lots of people in each store, and everyone seemed to be having a good time.
Fantagraphics Books' Funny Book #1 is one of the better antholgies I've read in quite a while. Eric Reynolds put together a rather good book in which he packed a dense mix of comics that have appeared in print before and of comics previews of upcoming books.
Although the scales tip in the favor of reprinted comics, they certainly don't wear out with age. Funny Book #1 reminds us why Fantagraphics Books may accurately be described as publisher of the world's greatest cartoonists.
Classy minimalistic Art Direction from Adam Grano atractively supports Funny Book #1 rather well, with my only complaint being that I didn't care for the starkness of the low-rez black and white character images on the cover.
Eric Reynolds has honed his promotional patter to a high lustre over the years, and his introductory editorial sets the stage for a fast paced and well thought out arrangement of strips.
Chris Ware's "Our Great Book Trimming Machine" makes a grand appearance on the inside-front-cover, but seems not to have merited him a paragraph on the "about the authors" inside-back cover. That omission is a minor quibble - I only have minor quibbles about this very solid anthology. For example, I would have loved to have seen at least a mere tip of the hat to Fantagraphics' great line of classic comic strip collections.
From just the first page, reading again Ivan Brunetti's "How to Draw Cartoons" and "22 Panels That Always Work* (*sometimes)" I was compelled to wallow through Brunetti's website and to sift through the archives of his Doodle-a-Day blog. Peter Bagge's "The Adventures of Ray Boy" lead to a similar digression, this time to the copy of Hate Annual #5 and Apocalypse Nerd #1 I purchased on Free Comic Book Day today. As I read, many of the other strips made me start looking through my back issues to re-read some of my favorite Fantagraphics books.
I don't. That was actually Rob's camera. I would think Frank would load some on his site once he gets them though.. If/when I see them, I'll let you know. _________________ www.adhousebooks.com
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