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Article: PG Preview for July 2012
Posted: May 20, 2012
You know, if you can look past the largely moribund and regressive side of the American comic-book market with its stale tie-in prequels and sequels (this month, they are trying to fob us off with retreads of He-Man, Eerie, The Crow, The Saint, and Bloodshot, would you believe), I think you’ll discover that we are living in amazing times for comics. Each month brings another bumper harvest of significant works, whether long-lost classics reissued, translations from all over the world, comic-art studies, biographies and monographs, or brand-new original graphic novels. I’ve picked out these diverse print publications below for your delectation, all due in July, or near enough, and spanning British comics and bandes dessinées to manga and acclaimed pieces from Quebec and The Netherlands, a last major piece by the lamented Harvey Pekar, a little-known antecedent of the graphic novel written by none other than William Burroughs, and perhaps the single most expensive item I’ve ever selected, at one thousand dollars, a limited edition six-volume set of Robert Crumb’s sketchbooks. Hopefully there’s something to tempt almost every taste, if not every pocket! Read the rest of my PG Preview here…
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