After the break, check out the latest episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell!
On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Chris, Joe and Tucker discuss the following topics:
- Taking vacations from comics: the pros and cons!
- The Hospital Suite, by John Porcellino and published by Drawn & Quarterly
- Bumperhead, by Gilbert Hernandez and published by Drawn & Quarterly
- Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Kate Charlesworth, Bryan Talbot and Mary Talbot and published by Dark Horse
Here is an interview with Hernandez in which he details some of the devices used in Bumperhead, particularly re: its chronology (I don't think he'd agree with my interpretation!): http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=55797
Posted by: Joe McCulloch | 2014.09.26 at 12:18
I feel Chris on being burnt on comics. I've been burnt on them this year, except for a handful of releases that in excited about.
I'm excited to read Sally Heathcote: Suffragette: smashing windows, radicalism for your rights and bleak ending done through somewhat rigorous, info heavy narrative, I'm fucking there. I had to import mine from the UK. I bought mine when it first came out, but I was so adverse to reading comics, it was lying in my to-read pile. I also love the Talbot team-up.
And now to Gilbert: I love him. I love him because he's one of comics greatest Fabulists and Magic realists in comics. Reading his works, especially early L&R, Julio's Day and Bummerhead, there's an underlining fantastical element that adds spice to the narrative and to an extent reflect his characters' interiors and exteriors. I would say there's a direct line from early Latin American Magical Realist/Fabulist writers--Borges, Quiroga, Cortazar, Felisberto Hernández and others-- to the Latin American Boom--Fuentes, Márquez, Donoso, Ruflo, Bastos--to Los Hernandez bros, especially Gilbert.
It's also nice to read a story that reflects you. Being Latin America BBB, when Gilbert--and Jaime but mire Gilbert--writes and identity and feeling lost in American hits so fucking close to home. Having been and in a way still going through it, it's nice to know I'm not alone in that part of my life.
I'm going off in a rant, but Gilbert's current work and even his early stuff, more current is so fucking strong.
Thanks for the link, Joe!
Posted by: Larry B Vossler | 2014.09.27 at 13:32
No problem, man; thanks for this comment.
Posted by: Joe McCulloch | 2014.09.27 at 20:20