Tag: Colette Arrand
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Two Poems by Colette Arrand
The Xerox Machines Lose Their Will to Live First they made copies of body parts:hands, then buttocks, toes, and breasts.We thought this was intimacy, but they leftafter copying their resumes, didn’t come back.Whispers of layoffs, confirmed when cubicles grewempty, when fires were set to garbage cans stuffedwith what we’d made. Anarchy, once the vending machines,too,…
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How to Be Happy, short comics by Eleanor Davis, reviewed by Colette Arrand
*Ed.’s Note: click on image to view larger size. The best stories in Eleanor Davis’ debut Fantagraphics collection How to Be Happy are grounded in narratives that we are familiar with on a primal level. A group of men and women return to nature. A daughter, now a successful artist in the city, returns home…
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I Like the Idea of a Little Kid Walking Into a Comic Store and Finding Something They Can Sink Their Teeth Into: An Interview with Jesse Moynihan
Read a page of Jesse Moynihan’s Forming. Really. One. They’re all available for free on his website for you try-it-before-you-buy-it types, and for those of you who don’t have a comic book store, or the type of store that stocks collections published by Nobrow Press. I’ll do it with you: I just flipped open my…
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The King of New Orleans: How the Junkyard Dog Became Professional Wrestling’s First Black Superhero
The King of New Orleans advertises itself as the story of how Sylvester Ritter, the professional wrestler better known as the Junkyard Dog, became wrestling’s first black superhero, but the thus-far definitive document on the former star is scant on biographical detail and long on attendance figures and gate receipts. Author Greg Klein, a journalist…