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Deep into Warren Ellis’s Global Frequency at the moment. Tense, twisted…a solid subway read. Johanna Draper Carlson calls this “the quintessential Warren Ellis series” at Comics Worth Reading. Critic Julian Darius is writing a lot about the veteran comics writer and novelist at Sequart Research & Literacy organization — here is a piece on Ellis’s superhero work for publisher Avatar Press. Publishers Weekly reports that Ellis has teamed up with Marvel to launch a line of original graphic novels beginning in October of 2013.  View high resolution

Deep into Warren Ellis’s Global Frequency at the moment. Tense, twisted…a solid subway read. Johanna Draper Carlson calls this “the quintessential Warren Ellis series” at Comics Worth Reading. Critic Julian Darius is writing a lot about the veteran comics writer and novelist at Sequart Research & Literacy organization — here is a piece on Ellis’s superhero work for publisher Avatar Press. Publishers Weekly reports that Ellis has teamed up with Marvel to launch a line of original graphic novels beginning in October of 2013. 

Writer Jeet Heer has an in-depth essay on Building Stories, the new multi-format graphic novel-not-graphic novel project from Chris Ware:

One way of defining the genius of Chris Ware is to say that he fuses the disparate forms of comics and architecture, using his nonpareil skills in visual storytelling to show how the buildings we construct are not just empty containers but influence us as much as we shape them.

Read Heer’s piece at The Globe and Mail.

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This is why I love Dan Clowes. He’s the only comic artist I’ve read who can do this to me, to pull me so completely into his world that, just as the old lady said, I start seeing reality through the lens of his work.

Self-professed non-comics enthusiast Josh Indar has a great piece up at PopMatters about Daniel Clowes. 

Joe Sacco at The Millions

The Millions has an extensive interview with award-winning artist and comics journalist Joe Sacco. My short preview of his new book with reporter Chris Hedges is at PopMatters. Comics critic Bill Kartalopoulos has a typically smart piece about Sacco’s new works in The Brooklyn Rail.

By the time he was readying to swap a death penalty sentence for leads about where he’d buried his victims, serial killer Gary Ridgway was facing 48 counts of aggravated murder. The highly religious Navy veteran targeted female prostitutes and eventually estimated killing 60 women in total, choking them and leaving their bodies in a wooded area of southern Seattle. Read my new PopMatters piece on Ridgway and Green River Killer, the Dark Horse graphic novel for which Jonathan Case won a Stumptown Comic Art Award in April.  View high resolution

By the time he was readying to swap a death penalty sentence for leads about where he’d buried his victims, serial killer Gary Ridgway was facing 48 counts of aggravated murder. The highly religious Navy veteran targeted female prostitutes and eventually estimated killing 60 women in total, choking them and leaving their bodies in a wooded area of southern Seattle. Read my new PopMatters piece on Ridgway and Green River Killer, the Dark Horse graphic novel for which Jonathan Case won a Stumptown Comic Art Award in April. 

Civil Unrest in ‘The Silence of Our Friends’ Graphic Novel

PopMatters published an essay from me yesterday about racial tensions in 1960s-era Houston and how the time period figures into a new graphic novel called The Silence of Our Friends. Sit-ins and marches in Houston, Texas back then meant enormous physical risks for volunteer activist groups like the Freedom Riders and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee that were challenging the status quo. When tensions rooted in a heavily segregated community eventually exploded at Texas Southern University in 1967, the SNCC found themselves at the center of the pot. Creators Mark Long, Nate Powell, and Jim Demonakos explore this era in The Silence of Our Friends. Click to read my PopMatters feature.