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vents i m hoping that over the course of the next year we ll talk to critics publishers retailers and musicians connected to or invested in the medium and its fandom essentially i want to think about the interviews themselves as the product it may not be exciting in the same way as finding out tidbits of future plot points in favorite series but i m hoping there s an audience for what we re trying to do and if not it s been a fun thing to plan and work on i think our goal is to try to have at least one interview up per week but we ll see how that goes back in december i made an offhand comment in a comments thread here expressing that i d love to see a blog only devoted to interviews but that d be one heck of a time consuming prospect and chris go getter that he is suggested we start one i thought he was crazy but like ice cube i m down for whatever luckily so was kevin when we asked him to come along for the ride plus while it sounds like a lot of work on paper having three people doing a project together helps distribute the workload and ease the pressure that s more than a little bit of a relief because it ll make closing this place down a little easier a lot has been happening in my personal life lately next week we close on our mortgage and a few weeks ago i found out that i got into graduate school between working full time working on the house related stuff and working for class i won t have much time for blogging not that i ever really blogged full time anyway so like graeme i think i m going to call this one a day come the two year anniversary in august but hey if someone should need a guest blogger speaking of interviews bookforum has a short one up with gary groth that focuses on the 30th anniversary of fantagraphics i don t believe that s a permanent link but i think it s good through the summer at least the mocca art festival is less than a month away i ve booked my room once again in jersey city because i am cheap and there s a lot to look forward to even if the actual panel schedule isn t posted yet while i can t make it the hotwire comix capers release party at rocketship this friday sounds like a blast reviews are on the way for the lost colony noble boy entanglement and some other things along with a look at what i m looking forward to at mocca posted by ed 9 23 am wednesday may 10 2006 review deogratias deogratias by j p stassen translated by alexis siegel 96 pages full color isbn 1 59643 103 2 us 16 95 canada 22 95 first second j p stassen s deogratias is a fictional account of the personal impact the rwandan genocide had on those affected by it rwandans and foreigners alike the story is horrific captivating and important it sheds light on a foreign conflict that isn t discussed as often as other issues abroad one that many might not know much about fortunately alexis siegel s introduction to the book helps catch readers up on the real world events that inform the setting i imagine that for some readers this may be the most they ve ever read on the rwandan genocide that s how it was for me while i ve heard news reports on npr on the subject throughout the years siegel s introduction provided some much appreciated historical context beyond what i knew going in if siegel s introduction provides the broad strokes and the facts of the rwandan genocide stassen provides the personal element that puts faces on it he gives the emotional context there may never have been a deogratias or an apollinara but stassen fleshes the characters out so well that the line between history and fiction blurs a little and the formal aspects of the book heighten that one thing i ve noticed in some comics from europe is that the word balloons tend to have sharper edges than in some american comics while that s more of a trend there in deogratias it may help foster that verisimilitude in american readers the dialogue reads as if it were captioned which gives the book a touch of a documentary feel the characters help give that impression as well stassen provides an ensemble cast of characters none of whom can be easily distilled into simple archetypes while the focal characters act heroically or villainous at certain times stassen doesn t make any fit heroic or villainous roles they re just people thrust into a horrifying situations and they act like one would expect people to act in that environment while the formal aspects of deogratias make the story feel real its structure also acts as one of its best features it s constructed very well in its narrative and rhythmic cadences stassen s use of flashback is exactly right for the story he s telling the jumps between this is where we are and this is where we have been lets the thematic elements progress in a linear fashion even though the timeline doesn t and gives the ending more of an emotional impact there are no notes indicating the timeshifts in the storytelling stassen relies entirely on the character s visual portrayals to indicate when things are happening another visual aspect worth noting is stassen s illustrations of deogratias s subjective self interpretation his madness manifests as him turning into a dog an image that works very well both in terms of artistry and as a way to show deogratias madness through visual representation stassen also uses a repetitive panel of the rwandan sky with an area of empty white space beneath it as punctuation and a refrain which keeps the pace of the book on tempo it s highly formalized but in a very organic way like all the first second books that i have seen deogratias is a very well designed book in a way their line realizes the potential of the space where comics publishing and traditional book publishing meet the cover takes the recurring starry night panel from the book and adds a foreground image of a cowering deogratias whose body language suggests his canine self image he and the rest of the foreground are printed more glossy than the background which provides even more contrast and the effect of dark on dark tones makes his reddish eyes more pronounced really what s most striking is how dark the whole cover is at first or on a casual glance the whole cover looks muddled and dark but just as it takes a moment for eyes to adjust in a dark room it takes a moment to adjust to the cover to see that there is a lot of detail in what initially looks like shadow deogratias isn t a comfortable book if there s comfort food the kind that sticks to the ribs and fills the body with warmth there s comfort reading and if there s comfort reading then this book might be considered discomfort reading it sticks to the ribs sure and it satisfies but it provokes contemplative uneasiness and demands that the reader takes his or her time to digest everything while deogratias might not be a comfortable lazy sunday book it is satisfying because it is emotionally resonant without being emotionally manipulative it won t tell the reader what to feel but it should provoke an honest reaction it s a book worth sharing with readers of all kinds npr junkies people who appreciate the craft of comics creation and people that want to read works that not only provoke contemplation but demand it posted by ed 10 39 am tuesday april 18 2006 quick links i m not dead i just feel as if i were if i don t post at least one review by sunday feel free to drag me over the proverbial coals or go on ignoring this space in any case two comics related things that caught my eye david p welsh always kicks ass but his latest flipped is extra fabulous in it he talks with 01 translator alexis siegel no pull quotes just go read it normally i just delete or ignore most comics related e mails of the hype variety i receive almost always it s something that s awful something i m not interested in or stuff that i ve seen posted elsewhere which shouldn t be surprising considering the frequency of posting around here as of late however i think the one i received this morning is worth sharing with others dirk schwieger a german cartoonist currently living in tokyo started an interactive comics blog where the content is dictated by reader questions requests at the time of posting he s done about fourteen comics on various topics and they re rather good his first post explains in comics form how to get interactive with the blog posted by ed 4 24 pm tuesday march 14 2006 there s a new blog out there with a lofty mission statement saving independent comics started by aspiring comic book creator jason berek lewis independents day is setting itself up to be a pooling place for ideas and a place where other like minded fans publishers and creators can come together to fight the good fight as it were or in other words team comics is popping back up again three years ago i d have been all about this i wanted to save comics man maybe i wasn t passionate enough to leave comics on the subway or anything like that and well there aren t subways here exactly plus that would mean spending money and i m cheap but i was going to start small like buying family members comics for christmas and the like woo comics since i didn t want to really spend any money of my own i thought i d suggest that other people do it with their money again woo comics in some respects i m still like this over time though i became a little less pushy about it someone wants a recommendation for something new to try i m taking brandon hanvey s advice and trying to figure out what might appeal to them comics come up in a conversation sure i ll jump in i ve yet to find a conversation about anything i won t jump into again i m a rather obnoxious fellow i still buy my wife comics from time to time but they re stuff she likes like the russ cochran ec library editions anything past that though i can t commit anymore maybe it s getting older maybe it s losing passion maybe it s my slow slide towards cynical entropy maybe tom spurgeon bad influence that he is helped me decide that i don t have to support a comic book just because it is self published or from a small press when he wrote about the team comics mentality in the comics journal 250 or taking it more in the glass half full way maybe it s because i am seeing success stories books like black hole doing well in the bookstore trade and at certain comics shops npr features on persepolis r crumb and dan clowes seeing first second ads in almost every publisher s weekly newsletter i get and not just the comics related ones films like a history of violence and the upcoming art school confidential that show others are getting hip to the idea that comics doesn t necessarily mean superheroes even if the vox populi of online fandom doesn t voice it manga and graphic novels becoming a major force in mainstream publishing even if some still maintain that manga isn t comics for whatever reason i know i m skewing my yays towards things i like but that s a bias i can t hide from the successes and failures of companies like crossgen dreamwave speakeasy and alias make interesting talking points for me but they re not things i invest in that could be what s getting in my way of fully embracing the independents day idea companies like the ones just mentioned aren t the ones i m thinking can save an industry they re a dime a dozen people dreaming of making it big or whatever but going about it without any solid business plan and like the hydra of myth each time one of these heads gets cut off another one takes its place johanna draper carlson has a great rebuttal of open book press s press release inviting displaced speakeasy creators to join their stable here s where i get hopeful again i think the creators and books that are facing hardships resulting from speakeasy s demise will get things worked out in the long run i m think we ll see matt maxwell s strangeways eventually whether it s from another company or done on his own an interview conducted with maxwell before the fall of speakeasy was just published at broken frontier i don t doubt that elk s run will bounce back from this if only because of the devotion and drive of joshua hail fialkov and jason rodriguez it won t be easy for any of the people involved and speakeasy closing is certainly a setback that i don t mean to downplay but if the drive is there and more important if the quality is there then the books will make it to the hands of people who want to read them in the opening post of the independents day blog berek lewis points to speakeasy s demise differently than i would using it as the rallying point for the blog speakeasy is not the first well meaning independent to bite the dust unfortunately we are reading about this all too often we can stick our head in the sand as a lot of people do or we can stand up and do something about it i m not sure what fans really can do about it particularly with so many companies shooting themselves in their corporate feet speakeasy made some of the same mistakes other upstart publishers have done in the past expanding too quickly waiting for investments that never materialize and other counting chickens before they hatchisms simply because they meant well doesn t mean that they should be supported as a company if anything that should be the lesson publishers and creators take from speakeasy just because you really love the medium doesn t mean you can expect to succeed in it as it takes more than just good intentions for all my complaints about the business practices and shenanigans of alias berek lewis points out their saving grace and examples from other publishers in the same vein there are a number of strategies smaller studios can pursue alias enterprises for example through its community comics seeks out religious audiences other studios pursue online sales the dabel brothers seek to produce adaptations of fantasy properties with existing fan bases other companies build awareness and loyalty through viral marketing using tools such as newsletters posting on message boards and fan street teams i m obviously not the market for community comics but that s the one thing i can say i respect about alias that they re going after new markets rather than simply hoping to cannabilize the current crop of superhero fans that s another point where berek lewis s approach differs from mine instead of a system where publishers are all still fighting for pieces of the same pie i wouldn t suggest making the pie bigger instead i d say hey this pie is nice but not everyone likes this one pie and there isn t enough of this one pie to go around let s make different pies for people who don t like this pie and both pies can sell at bakeries and supermarkets and other pie providers to really torture his metaphor judging by some of the websites of the studios supporting independents day though i can t help but think they really want to be in that massive first pie and i don t mean in terms of market share they seem to be the types that matt maxwell admonishes in the interview linked above that are willing to giv...