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Kevin Huizenga is one of my 3 favorite makers of comics these days. His methods mix accessible pictures, science, philosophy, history, and autobiography all together in a form much like David (Reality Hunger) Shields describes here:
The lyric essay asks what happens when an essay begins to behave less like an essay and more like a [...]

Douglas Wolk does Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, explaining “what beauty is, what art is, and why people like stuff” … in 5 minutes … with pictures of Wolverine.
All hail.

Everyday I walk by this mural, which reminds me of Ezra Jack Keats.

But just a little bit.
The first time I visited Philadelphia, I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. (Actually, it was the second time I’d been here, but I was only 12 years old for the first trip, and all I remember is the homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk as people walked over and [...]

Jeff Lemire, creator of the fantastically melancholy Essex County dropped a list of his faves for ‘09. If you can’t trust a comic auteur of his skill, you can’t trust anybody for this.

(Relevant question: Can you name a great artist in any medium who has/had horrible taste in art from that same medium?)

I read several rotten comics tonight. Urgh. Dark Avengers!? Unbelievable.
Secret Wars II? Horrible.

Daybreak started out as a big mystery to me. I picked-up the second issue, recognized that the art was obviously my style, and so I bought it, at the same time ordering the firs issue. I waited till I had both to read them, and I was glad for it. These two issues have left [...]

Isaac Butler’s diablog response to my Essential Reading post on Kevin Huizenga’s work is right here.

In it he details not only some of the reasons he digs Kevin H., but also the one major shortcoming he finds in Huizenga’s work. A couple of quotations from his post sum it up nicely.
What happens in one issue [...]

Isaac Butler of the Parabasis (theatre, comics, the universe, and everything) blog knows I’m a fan of Kevin Huizenga, and invited me to have a diablog with him about the latest issue of Ganges, Huizenga’s occasional series for Fantagraphics about Glenn Ganges, Huizenga’s possibly somewhat-semi-autobiographical stand-in and everyman.

Well, I’m happy to oblige. We’ll be talking [...]