Author : Gary Groth
Publisher : Mome
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606993026
Book Description
2008 found MOME on MANY year-end critics' lists, increasing academic andlibrary interest, several gallery exhibitions mounted nationwide, and anincreasingly potent well of top-notch, known and unknown talent, making everyissue a surprising, dense and delightful read. With this season, the quarterlyjournal of comics will have brought over 2,000 pages of new comics to the worldsince its inception in 2005. Upcoming contributors of short stories toMOME include: Dash Shaw, Lilli Carré, Al Columbia, Jonathan Bennett,Laura Park, Émile Bravo, Olivier Schrauwen, Tom Kaczynski, Ray Fenwick,Andrice Arp, Eleanor Davis, Nathan Neal, Conor O'Keefe, Jon Vermilyea, RobertGoodin, Sara Edward-Corbett, Derek Van Gieson, and many more. As threeserials ended in 2009, two more launch: T. Edward Bak's biography of Germannaturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller is certain to eventually become one of themost acclaimed graphic novels of the decade. Ted Stearn's cult favoritecharacters (Matt Groening declares them "why I love comics") nowgrace MOME with a new, serialized adventure in which the hapless Fuzz &Pluck discover a literal money tree. The ensuing entanglement of intrigue anddesire is a surrealist, picaresque tour de force of comics storytelling withstrong thematic ties to America's housing and financial meltdown, and the dreamsthat led to it. There's also a pirate, and we all know that pirates sell.