Saturday, July 05, 2003  


:: Posted by max @ 7/05/2003 03:01:00 AM
:::THE PANELIST GUY



Recently having returned to Toronto after trying to make a go of it here in Montreal, Comix Jam regular Guy Leshinski started writing a column for Eye magazine titled ‘THE PANELIST’. I've Been trying to keep up with his columns, here are a few of the latest.



Inking the medium: “This summer, the big screens are blazing with that favourite goose of the unimaginative exec: the comic-book adaptation. Typically a cargo of unremitting camp, the genre has lately traded its roller skates for Hush Puppies, recruiting auteurs to wring cinema from chimera.” >>>more



Stayin' alive: “It looked like one roiling, hairy-legged mother of a story: Seattle's legendary comix publisher Fantagraphics Books, the outfit that brought us the best of Crumb -- and Los Bros. Hernandez, Peter Bagge, Charles Burns... even Ghost World, for chrissakes! -- had split itself open on the crag of a serious business blunder, and was fast sinking like a ship full of smuggled booty.”>>> more



Click art: “Comic books are crack to a small but devoted following. Like a freshly cooked rock, a newly minted comic -- crisp, unblemished -- can spark a buzz when caught in a buyer's clammy grip. The smell of factory-pressed pages, the swell of a lovingly groomed collection... potent bookish lusts keep the faithful at attention.” >>>more



and his first, which I posted a link to before, but just to complete I’ll include here

Montreal strippers: ”Montrealers are cuckoo for comic books. In every bookshop, every library, and in a healthy selection of record stores, there are comics prominently, even proudly, displayed. Not just the spandex melodramas from south of the border, but the bandes dessinées (French for comics; literally "drawn strips") from France and Belgium, the Tintins and Asterixes, all the way up to modern works by the major French-language publishing houses like Casterman and Delcourt, who print their books on glossy stock in large, hard-cover volumes.” >>>more



Stay tuned for GUY’s own comix, which will be posted here on this site soon as a few dozen backlogged html chores are seen to.

    
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