Be that as it may, having never read the original novel, I came to this adaptation with no expectations beyond a good comix. |
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For the most part none of the articles require prior knowledge of comix past or present, though they may require some patience. |
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Don't miss the annual top ten list of comix for the past year, coming in two weeks. |
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Not surprisingly the comix themselves are as unconventional as their package. |
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Part of the rise of alternative comics beginning in the late 1980s was the rise of the graphic novel, reviving the 1960s underground comix. |
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It turns out to be a neglected work of smart, tense, hard-boiled crime comix with more going on than just the usual violence. |
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These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. |
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He essentially becomes a character in a one-man-show that features the reading of comix. |
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Actually, the inspiration for a lot of what I'm doing comes more from the anime tradition than US comix. |
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At the same time it happens to be one of the most interesting gay-themed comix to come around in a long while. |
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But most important, it's all done at the service of a linear narrative, the definition of comix. |
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By writing comix about how relationships evolve Watson defies expectations. |
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Satisfying your superhero jones can be tough when you're a comix snob like me. |
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A story about tragedy and regret told in a sweetly simple way, it stands out as one of the most beautifully sad comix in recent memory. |
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While these were by no means the last undergrounds published in Canada, they do mark the end of the comix movement as such. |
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The paper comix were printed on was sometimes cheaper, and the printing quality was variable. |
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Other notable contributors to English-Canadian underground comix included Brent Boates and George Metzger. |
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What Clowes's Times strip has done is brought me into the burgeoning world of comix, graphic novels, or whatever it is you wish to call them. |
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America's baby boomers savored the joyously irreverent cartoons of Mad Magazine and the leeringly carnal comix of R. Crumb. |
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He himself avows that his influences range from Bosch and Delacroix to girly magazines, carnival art, and, of course, comix. |
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It's a world half-comic in its excess, which proved an inspiration both to contemporary cartoonists like James Gillray, and to the superhero comix of the 20th century. |
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Graham's artwork borrows techniques from manga, graffiti art and early '70s underground comix, and his dialogue is a string of banter, puns and non sequiturs. |
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These artists were, in a sense, picking up where bp nichol and the Coach House comix artists of the late 1960s and early 70s had left off, pushing the limits of comics, stylistically and thematically. |
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I got my first break as stunt-double for the top goodie on Super Comix Babies. |
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