{"id":1106,"date":"2007-04-16T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-funnies-5\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T11:13:22","slug":"the-funnies-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-funnies-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"CrumbKafka\"<\/div>\n

The Daily Cross Hatch<\/a> review the reissued David Zane Mairowitz\/R. Crumb collaboration, Kafka<\/i> [pictured above]: “The sketches of Kafka’s stories are concise, but entertaining\u2014sort of a Classics Illustrated for New Yorker readers, which will surely someday score a few folks some extra bonus points at a cocktail party or two. The real star here, not surprisingly, is Crumb’s ink-heavy artwork, adopting a suitably macabre style, something akin to a heavily cross hatched collection of woodcuttings. The artist obviously feels a degree of kinship with the Czech author, who, at least at face value, can be taken to be something of a walking superego to Crumb’s own seemingly perpetual id. The artist even goes so far as to place what might very easily be taken for a self-portait in the role of the protagonist for Kafka’s characteristically tragic, The Trial.<\/i>” {picture from Journalista<\/a>} * Expatica<\/a> on the adventures of Herg \u00e9<\/b>: The dream which became Tintin began when Herge, bored with school at College Saint Boniface, joined the scouts in 1921 as an extra-curricular activity. His first drawing appeared in his scout troop’s magazine \u201cJamais Assez” and then, in 1923, in \u201cLe Boyscout Belge”, the Belgian Boy Scouts Association official newsletter.<\/i> See 3:AM’s review<\/a> of Tom McCarthy’s<\/b> Tintin and the Secret of Literature<\/i>. * The Forbidden Planet blog<\/a> talks to Malcy Duff<\/b>: “I had wanted to draw comics for a long time but was scared by stupid guitar soloing from the elite. I related better to the caveman thud which I was taught by reading Hate<\/b>, Toxic<\/b>. I think I got into comics by watching The Lost Boys. Corey Haim deserved a slagging for being a fashion victim and he got it offa two comic dirts.”<\/i> More info on Malcy Duff on Missing Twin<\/a>, his publishing arm, and I’d recommend a read of Murtha Milks<\/a> hosted by Bugpowder. * Jessa Crispin<\/a> on Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s<\/b> Lost Girls<\/i>: “As with many Alan Moore works, the idea is better than the execution.”<\/i> Previously, Crispin on “arty porn”<\/a>. * Put the Book Back on the Shelf<\/i><\/a>, last year’s graphic novel based on the songs of Belle and Sebastian<\/a>, received mixed<\/a> reviews<\/a>. Derek Webb’s The Ringing Bell<\/a>, to accompany his CD of the same name, may fare better {via Drawn!<\/a>} * Express<\/a> profile Bryon Talbot<\/b>: “I had no idea what Sunderland was like at all, apart from the English perception of it being a grimy, industrial town. I didn’t want to move here.”<\/i> And via Journalista!<\/a>, Steve Flanagan’s review<\/a> of Alice in Sunderland<\/i> done as a seven part comic. * The Comics Journal #282<\/i> hits the stands any day now and includes an interview with Golden-Age cartoonist Fred Guardineer<\/b> and a look at Asian comics beyond Japan. Also in there, an interview with Fun Home<\/i>‘s Alison Bechdel<\/b>, a taster<\/a> of which is on-line: “I always felt like there was something inherently autobiographical about cartooning, and that’s why there was so much of it. I still believe that. I haven’t exactly worked out my theory of why, but it does feel like it almost demands people to write autobiographies.”<\/i> * Dean Haspiel<\/a>, of Billy Dogma<\/b> fame, spoke to Fanboy Radio<\/a> about working with Harvey Pekar<\/b> [Haspiel drew The Quitter<\/i>] and The Alcoholoic<\/i>, his forthcoming collaboration<\/a> with Jonathan Ames<\/b> [which I am looking forward to..roll on 2008]. Haspiel will be the next subject in Christopher Irving’s Comics Introspective<\/i><\/a> series for TwoMorrows publishing; the first, Peter Bagge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily Cross Hatch review the reissued David Zane Mairowitz\/R. Crumb collaboration, Kafka [pictured above]: “The sketches of Kafka’s stories are concise, but entertaining\u2014sort of a Classics Illustrated for New Yorker readers, which will surely someday score a few folks some extra bonus points at a cocktail party or two. The real star here, not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}