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My Comics Canon José Muñoz Sobre Carlos Nine!

José Muñoz, Carlos Loiseau (Caloi), Carlos

Nine, Caloi en su tinta , años noventa. Sì,
atorrante, hijo de zapateros, como yo, mas...

It was February 24, 2004, 08:27 AM, on the Comics Journal Messboard. I'm not sure if this was
the first time that I listed these comics there (probably not), but that's what I did in that particular
occasion. If I remember correctly (unfortunately I didn't write a crib sheet at the time) I did
previously post what I now call "my canon" because I was fed up with the accusation of not liking
comics at all because I found children's comics (and I do like Carl Barks' oeuvre) somewhat
wanting (melodrama and manichaeism in particular bother me plenty).
This is a different list because I added a few titles over the last years: My Canon:

Anon (Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X El Sabio)

Hans Holbein (Les Simulachres & Historiées Faces de la Mort)
Gilles Corrozet (Les Simulachres & Historiées Faces de la Mort)
Romeyn de Hooghe (The Siege and Liberation of Vienna in 1683)
Jacques Callot (Les misères et malheurs de la guerre)
William Hogarth (A Harlot’s Progress; Rake’s Progress)
Francisco de Goya (Los desastres de la guerra; Caprichos de Goya) Image: Keith Haring; header: George Herriman
Katsushika Hokusai (Thirty-Six Views; One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji)
Gustave Doré (Histoire de la Sainte Russie) About Me
Gustave Henri Jossot (Le credo; Dressage)
Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (La vision de Hugo) Isabelinho
Frans Masereel (Mein Stundenbuch; Die Stadt) I'm a Portuguese comics critic. I
Pablo Picasso (Songe et mensonge de Franco; La suite Vollard) contributed to the magazines:
Charlotte Salomon (Leben? Oder Theater?) Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite
Francis Bacon (Triptych May - June 1973) Internacional, Splaft! and the catalogs of the
Héctor Germán Oesterheld (Ernie Pike; Amapola Negra, Mort Cinder; El Eternauta; Randall, Loco Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions
(Portugal), The Comics Journal, The
Sexton)
International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.),
Alberto Breccia (Ernie Pike; Mort Cinder; Un Tal Daneri; Versiones; La Gallina Degollada;
L'indispensable (France), European Comic Art
Buscavidas) (UK). I also wrote the preface to one of the
Hugo Pratt (Ernie Pike) latest editions of Guido Buzzelli's book I
Carlos Trillo (Un Tal Daneri; Buscavidas) Labirinti (Italy). I co-curated a Buzzelli
Solano Lopez (Amapola Negra, El Eternauta) exhibition in Lisbon and an exhibition of my
Arturo del Castillo (Randall, Loco Sexton) original art collection in the Beja Comics
Tony Weare (Matt Marriott) Convention (Portugal). I wrote twenty three
entries in the book 1001 Comics You Must
James Edgar (Matt Marriott)
Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 I was
David Wright (Carol Day: Jack Slingsby)
invited to the seminar Aesthetics of
Chago Armada (Sa-Lo-Mon) Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway). In the
Guido Buzzelli (Zil Zelub; I Labirinti; L’Agnone; Intirvista) last half dozen years, I came back to where I
Philip Guston (Poor Richard) started: i.e.: writing for Manuel Caldas.
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Nicholas Africano (The Scream, Struggling with him, He's afraid of loneliness)
Martin Vaughn-James (The Cage, The Park)
Yoshiharu Tsuge (Red Flowers; Oba’s Electroplate Factory; L’homme sans talent) Translate

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Tardi (La bascule à Charlot; C'était la guerre des tranchées; La veritable histoire du soldat inconnu)
Edmond Baudoin (Le portrait; Le premier voyage; Éloge de la poussière; Terrains vagues; Couma
àco) "The public is
Richard McGuire (Here) wonderfully
tolerant. It forgives
Andrzej Klimowski (The Depository: A Dream Book; The Secret)
everything except
Martin tom Dieck (hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt; Monsieur Lingus; Territirroirs) My Blog List genius."
Fabrice Neaud (Journal (I); Journal (III))
Chester Brown (The Playboy; I Never Liked You) Oscar Wilde
R. S. Martin
Lynda Barry (The Freddie Stories; The Most Obvious Question; One! Hundred! Demons!) Short Take:
Anke Feuchtenberger (Die Hure H; Die kleine Dame; Somnanbule) Rashomon
1 hour ago
Katrin de Vries (Die Hure H; Die kleine Dame)
Geneviève Castrée (Lait Frappé, Susceptible)
Shannon Gerard (Unspent Love; Hung)
du9, l'autre
Debbie Drechsler (Daddy's Girl; The Summer of Love) bande dessinée
Kiriko Nananan (Blue) Figure canonique
Ben Katchor (Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer;The Jew of New York) bd
15 hours ago
Eric Lambé (Ophélie et les directeurs des ressources humaines; Alberto G.; La Pluie; Un voyage)
Stefano Ricci (Tufo)
Philippe de Pierpont (Alberto G.; Tufo; La Pluie; Un voyage)
el hombre
Jiro Tanigushi (L’homme qui marche; Le journal de mon père) duerme, el
John Porcellino (Sam; Perfect Example) fantasma no
Ed Brubaker (Here and Now, An Accidental Death) Trampantojo #202
Stefano Gaudiano (Here and Now) 2 days ago

Eric Shanower (An Accidental Death)

Sylvain Victor (Le Doute)
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Vincent Fortemps (Cimes; La Digue; (Coulisse); Par les sillons) Rencontrer
Olivier Deprez (Le Chatêau) DOUBLEBOB à la
Olivier Marboeuf (Une Ville, un Mardi) librairie Mollat –
Le 6 octobre à
Pierre Duba (L'Absente; Racines)
13h30 –
Dominique Goblet (Souvenir d’une journée parfaite; Faire semblant c’est mentir) Exposition
Andrea Bruno (Sabato Tregua) jusqu’au 31
Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth; Acme Novelty Library # 18; Building octobre
3 days ago
Stories)
Barron Storey (The Adjustment of Sidney Deepscorn; Slidehouse)
Carl Barks (The Twenty Four Carat Moon; Valley of Tralla La; Back to Long Ago; A Financial Fable) the metabunker
Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Goodbye and Other Stories; Kept) Grotesker i
Harvey Pekar (American Splendor # 4; American Splendor # 8) Information
3 days ago
Robert Crumb (American Splendor #4; American Splendor #8)
Jose Muñoz (Sudor Sudaca; Alack Sinner)
Carlos Sampayo (Sudor Sudaca; Alack Sinner)
el Blog de los
Gary Panter (Daltokyo; Cola Madnes) 300
Art Spiegelman (Maus) ¿LA IMAGEN MÁS
Carel Moiseiwitsch (This Is a True Story) INDECENTE DE
‘PRÍNCIPE
Federico del Barrio (El artefacto perverso; Lope de Aguirre, la conjura; Las memorias de amoros; La
VALIENTE’?
Orilla) 1 week ago
Elisa Gálvez (La Orilla)
Felipe Hernandez Cava (El artefacto perverso; Lope de Aguirre, la expiación; Lope de Aguirre, la
conjura; Las memorias de Amoros; Soy mi sueño) MAYBE
Pablo Auladell (Soy mi sueño) BLOGGING WILL
Ricard Castells (Lope de Aguirre, la expiación) HELP
ZINE NOT DEAD X
Aristophane (Les Soeurs Zabîme; Conte démoniaque; Faune) 3 weeks ago
Montesol (Fin de semana; Speak Low)
Ramon de España (Fin de Semana)
Joe Sacco (Palestine; Safe Area Gorazde; The Fixer; Footnotes in Gaza) Blog créatif de
Mattotti (Stigmate; Il rumore della brina) Barthélémy
Jorge Zentner (Il rumore della brina) Schwartz
Mars-avril 2018 :
Claudio Piersanti (Stigmate)
Exposition
Eddie Campbell (The King Canute Crowd; Graffiti Kitchen; Alec: How to Be an Artist; From Hell) collective Adverse
Alan Moore (From Hell) / Festival
Mat Brinkman (Teratoid Heights; Heads 44) Indélibile / Lieu-
commun à
Yvan Alagbé (Dyaa; Nègres jaunes) Toulouse
Thierry van Hasselt (Brutalis) 3 weeks ago
David B. (L’Ascension du Haut Mal)
Daniel Clowes (Ghost World; David Boring)
Peter Blegvad (The Book of Leviathan) quartodejade.wo
Blanchet (La nouvelle au pis) rdpress.com
LINÓLEOS E
Max (El prolongado sueño del Sr. T.; Nosotros somos los muertos; Bienvenidos al infierno) NARRATIVAS
Seth (Clyde Fans; It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken) 3 weeks ago
Rutu Modan (Jamilti; Exit Wounds)
Pedro Nora (Mr. Burroughs)
David Soares (Mr. Burroughs) Ler BD
Livro sagrado.
Filipe Abranches (A Morte do Palhaço)
Santo (Edições
Marco Mendes (Diário Rasgado) Milagre)
David Mazzucchelli (Big Man; Discovering America; Asterios Polyp) 4 weeks ago
Moebius (Cauchemar blanc)

Yellow Fast &

Crumble
Image: Thierry
Groensteen: A
response to
Carol Day by David Wright (strip # 2963). In the last panel we can see a medium close-up of Adam
Renaud Chavanne
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Michael Spence said...
I take it you aren't big on the Hernandez Brothers? ►  2018 (42)
September 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM ►  2017 (34)
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Isabelinho said...
Hi Michael, great to hear from you!... ►  2014 (48)
►  2013 (26)
You're right, I'm not.
►  2012 (8)
However: I understand that they were as important in America as Edmond Baudoin was in
France at the beginning of the eighties. They helped to build Fanta as an important alternative ►  2011 (16)
publishing house and I suppose that almost all American readers of alternative comics would ►  2010 (8)
include them in their own "canons."
My problem with Beto is that Magical Realism is far from being my cup of tea. Also: way back ►  2009 (45)
when I posted something in TCJ's Messboard stating their stories' soapiness. Another poster ▼  2008 (57)
(I which I did write a crib sheet back then because I don't remember who) answered me with
►  December (13)
one of the greatest posts I've ever read demonstrating me how wrong I was.
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Steinlen's La Vision de Hugo - Coda
rohang said...
Steinlen's La Vision de Hugo
I'm sorry to disturb such an old post, but I'm very curious: given your views on the expanded
field, is there a reason that--for example--the self-portraits of Rembrandt do not qualify as a Jossot's Le Credo and Dressage - Coda
comic? Jossot's Le Credo and Dressage
January 10, 2015 at 7:32 PM Rutu Modan's Jamilti - Coda
Rutu Modan's Jamilti
Isabelinho said... David Wright's Carol Day: Jack Slingsby
Disturb at will... My Comics Canon
That's a good question. I see no reason to exclude Rembrandt's self-portraits or Vermeer's
genre scenes from the expanded field of comics. I can only think of two reasons to explain
why I didn't include those above: 1) it didn't occur to me at the time; 2) and more likely, I chose
things that aren't separated in space; things that are reunited on a wall like Francis Bacon's
triptych or published in a book like Hokusai's 100 views.
January 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM

Isabelinho said...
By the way, I think that the poster who explained to me why Love & Rockets isn't a soap was
M. Campos.
January 11, 2015 at 4:20 AM

david black said...

Are there any comics you include in this canon since you last updated it?
January 23, 2015 at 4:09 AM

Isabelinho said...
Thanks for your comment, David!

To tell you the truth I can't remember when was the last time that I included a comic in my
above list. The problem is that I read less and less comics these days. For instance,
this book is in my "to read" pile for ages (I still didn't buy Duba's lastest book). Ditto Here by
Richard McGuire which I bet is great. There's also this one that I could include, I guess... Or the
latest comics by Dominique Goblet...
January 23, 2015 at 5:52 AM

nikay andrews said...

I know these aren't all the comics you consider to be masterpieces. What would the full list
be?

Also,are there any non-English comics in your canon I could enjoy without learning another
language?
April 4, 2015 at 10:03 PM

Isabelinho said...
Hi nikai! Thanks for your interest!

A canon is a living thing, so, maybe you're right, but I haven't given many thoughts to the
matter lately. This list is a few years old, but anytime I stumbled upon a book that impressed
me enough I did put it in there too. From last year I surely would add Richard McGuire's great
Here (with lush colors by Maëlle Doliveux) and Stefano Ricci's La storia dell'Orso. If you're
wondering if I like a few mainstream comics that I didn't put in my list, the answer is, not really.
That's exactly why this blog exists. 'Nuff said?

I'll answer your question with two words: Kim Thompson. He had a mainstream taste, but,
since he spent his early comics reading years in Europe he had an European mainstream taste
(so, no annoying superheroes for him). For years he tried to publish European comics, but
foreign comics (all foreign comics) are box office poison in America. Even so he managed to
publish a Tardi collection. I don't recommend Tardi's alimentary work, of course, but It Was the
War of the Trenches is in there too. There's not much else, I'm afraid. There's an English edition
of Aristophane's Les soeurs Zabîme; there are English editions of Anke Feuchtenberger's work
(published by Bries, but out of print by now, I guess). You can also read the mute comics of
Martin tom Dieck and Frans Masereel. There are two Rosetta anthologies with European short
stories edited by yours truly. And that's about it...
April 5, 2015 at 1:47 AM

Isabelinho said...
I just remembered one more European graphic novel published in English thanks to Kim
Thompson: David B.'s Epileptic.
April 10, 2015 at 2:15 AM

Isabelinho said...
Oh, and, speaking of which, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi too, of course.
April 10, 2015 at 2:41 AM

nikay andrews said...

What I meant was I thought that you've mentioned on occasions that you like comics that you
didn't include in your canon post, like for example, your monthly stumblings column. You
dedicated posts to artists like Geneviève Castrée, Alan Dunn,and Jochen Gerner. You also
mentioned that you like Joost Swarte and Al columbia on your blog.
April 13, 2015 at 11:19 PM

nikay andrews said...

Also, not trying to question your authority on great comics, but I was wondering you've read
the comics of alternative artists that are considered to be great by credible critics. Here's a list
of people I'm referring to and some of their major works:
Joyce Farmer(Special Exits)
Michael Deforge(The lose series, Very Casual, Ant colony)
Julie Doucet(My new York Diary, the Dirty Plotte series)
John Backderf(My friend Dahmer, Trashed)
Olivier Schrauwen(Arsene Schrauwen)
Zak Sally( Recidivist, Sammy the mouse)
John Hankiewicz(Asthma)
Matthew Thurber( 1-800-Mice, Info-maniacs)
Brian Chippendale(Ninja, Maggots, If'n'oof, puke force)
Megan Kelso(Artichoke Tales)
Ulli Lust (Today Is The Last Day Of The Rest Of Your Life)
Anything by Renee french
Dash Shaw(Botttomless Belly button, new school, bodyworld)
April 13, 2015 at 11:36 PM

nikay andrews said...

I feel there's a lack of manga in your canon. That's understandable due to the lack of
translations by the great alternative manga artists. What we mostly have are samples. I can
recommend some alternative manga that been published in English and scanlated by fans.
Shigeru Mizuki(Nonnonba, Onwards towards our noble deaths, Showa:A istory of japan, his
biography of Hitler is due to be published later this year)
Yuichi Yokoyama(Garden, New egineering, color egineering, Travel, World Map room)
Seiichi Hayashi(Red Colored Elergy, Gold Pollen and other stories, Flowering Habour)
Tadao Tsuge, yoshiharu's brother(Trash Market)
Oji Suzuki( A single match)
Susumu Katsumata( Red Snow)
Kazuichi Hanawa(Doing Time)
Ax: alternative manga anthology '
Imiri Sakabashira (The Box man)
Anything by Shintaro Kago
Suehiro MAruo(Rose Colored Monster, Shadow Star, the caterpillar, Mr. Arashi's Amazing
Freak Show, Ultra gash inferno)
Daisuke Igarashi ( Hanashippanashi,Children of the sea)
Iou Kuroda(Nasu, Japan Tengu Party Illustrated,Sexy Voice and Robo)
Seiichirou Tokunan ( Human Clock)
Tetsuya Toyoda( Undercurrent, Googles)
Makoto Yukimura (Planetes, For Our Farewell Is Near)
Inio Asano ( Goodnight Punpun, Nijigahara Holograph, Solanin, Before Dawn and the End of
The World)
Mizumaru Anzai (A Train at the End of Summer)
Kyoudai Nishioka (hell,God's child, journey to the end of the world, Sadness of the heart)
Yuki Urushibara (Mushshi, Filament
April 14, 2015 at 12:29 AM

Isabelinho said...
It seems that I've misjudge you nikai, I'm sorry for that!

Alan Dunn is not there? I need to correct that, presto! Ditto Geneviève. As for Jochen Gerner, I
need to think about it (too experimental, maybe?, see below). Al Columbia is interesting, but he
doesn't fit. As for Joost Swarte, I like his single drawings, not his comics (see below my
"underground" comment).

I read almost all of the alternative artists that you mention. Maybe not those exact books in
some cases, though (I read Schrauwen's "barbe" book, not the one in your list, for instance - I
can't, for the life of me, remember a thing now). Julie Doucet and Brian Chippendale are good
examples. I read everything by them, but the latter is mostly form with no substance (the
problem with lots of avant-garde work). I tend not to favor the underground, art brut, surreal,
ha ha ha, approach, but maybe My New York Diary should be in my list above. Backderf's
drawing style just puts me off. And so on and so forth...

As for your Japanese comics list I find it intriguing. Some I read and didn't like (Red Colored
Elegy) others I found so so (Doing Time), others I never read, that's true. I intend to buy Tadao
Tsuge's book very soon.
April 14, 2015 at 4:50 PM

Isabelinho said...
Oh, I like Kiriko Nananan's work a lot! I also need to correct that!
April 14, 2015 at 4:52 PM

nikay andrews said...

Why didn't you add Barroun Storey's Life after Black or The Marat/Sade Journals? Or Tatsumi's
drifting life? Or Gary panter's Jimbo Trilogy?

April 14, 2015 at 5:43 PM

nikay andrews said...

Any other artists you've feel that you've forgotten?
April 14, 2015 at 5:49 PM

nikay andrews said...

Aren't you going to update your canon post?

Other artists featured in your monthly stumblings column are Tim Gaze and otto dix. You also
did the entry for Otto Nuckel in the 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die guide.

Also, here's a collection of Tsuge short stories.

http://speedtomy8.imgur.com/
I believe chico, the marsh,and especially The Master of the Gensenkan deserve to be in your
canon. From what I understand, its about as famous as ScrewStyle in japan, another entry you
forgot to add in your canon.
April 14, 2015 at 9:10 PM

Isabelinho said...
You know more about me than I do myself! Thank you for that nikai!

An update is indeed in order. Otto Dix's absence is a huge blunder. Nuckel's book is too
melodramatic (I really like the visuals, but I also like Jack Kirby's visuals, so...). Thanks a lot for
the Tsuge link and for your comments!
April 14, 2015 at 11:16 PM

nikay andrews said...

Your list must include mizuki.
April 19, 2015 at 11:34 PM
 nikay andrews said...
You still haven't fully updated your canon besides the inclusion of brubaker and nananan. Any
other canon-worthy artists you can think of lately? How did you like those tsuge stories I
linked you? Do you like his brother, tadao?
November 9, 2015 at 4:29 PM

nikay andrews said...

Sorry for bothering you about it. I just have an obsession with completing as much as I can.
November 9, 2015 at 4:33 PM

Isabelinho said...
No prob! It's just that I'm not reading many comics at the moment (I'm passing through one of
those burn out periods). Not even Tadao Tsuge, contrarily to what I said. His drawing style
puts me a bit off, though.
November 10, 2015 at 2:08 AM

nikay andrews said...

I was wondering if you could do a coda on Edmond Baudoin. There's barely any info in English
on his comics and their influence. All there is some basic bio summaries and that he's the
father of french alternative comics.
March 4, 2016 at 5:33 PM

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David Wright's Carol Day: Jack Slingsby José Muñoz Sobre Carlos Nine!

José Muñoz, Carlos Loiseau (Caloi), Carlos

Nine, Caloi en su tinta , años noventa. Sì,
atorrante, hijo de zapateros, como yo, mas...

Can you imagine an American newspaper comic in which "the hero" (to speak children's comics
lingo) is engaged to one character while she's having an affair with another character who's
married (a slacker, no less!)? Can you imagine Mary Perkins following her heart against social
conventions and doing that? I can't. No newspaper or syndicate editor would allow it.
But that's exactly what happens in this masterpiece of the comics form that you can buy here.

The strips were reproduced from the original art and tearsheets originally assembled by the artist,
David Wright, himself.

In a nutshell: great art, great visual and psychological characterization. I especially like David
Wright's hatchings and cross-hatchings. He was at the peak of his abilities in the mid sixties,
when this story was published, one strip each day, in UK's Daily Mail.

Image: Keith Haring; header: George Herriman

Image:
Carol Day's strip # 2486. In the second panel we can see jazzman Memphis Slim.
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Rutu Modan's Jamilti José Muñoz Sobre Carlos Nine!

José Muñoz, Carlos Loiseau (Caloi), Carlos

Nine, Caloi en su tinta , años noventa. Sì,
atorrante, hijo de zapateros, como yo, mas...

Rutu Modan is Israel's new star in the international comics firmament thanks to her great, instant
classic, graphic novel Exit Wounds. She's part of Actus, a group of comics creators who began
self-publishing as Actus Tragicus in 1995. To find my first contact with these artists (the
aforementioned Rutu Modan, but also Etgar Keret - her scripter, if that's a word -, Yirmi Pinkus, Image: Keith Haring; header: George Herriman
Batia Kolton, Mira Friedmann, Itzik Rennert) I have to go back to 1996 when I bought four silvery
covered comic books: How to Make a Good Script Great by Rutu Modan and Etgar Keret; Fotofix by
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What's interesting re. Rutu Modan is to see her completely different drawing style back then. Not Isabelinho
only that, but Batia Kolton (whose drawing style is now a better version of Rutu's - cf. Actus' last
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book How to Love) heavily retouched photos in a Bazooka mood back then. It's also interesting to
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see, in retrospect, how Yirmi Pinkus was the first to adopt an European looking, clear line Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite
approach. Internacional, Splaft! and the catalogs of the
Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions
The group's site is at (and I thank Ofer Berenstein for his timely post at the comics scholars list): (Portugal), The Comics Journal, The
International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.),
http://www.actustragicus.com/ L'indispensable (France), European Comic Art
(UK). I also wrote the preface to one of the
latest editions of Guido Buzzelli's book I
Another interesting looking small press publisher from Israel is Dimona:
Labirinti (Italy). I co-curated a Buzzelli
exhibition in Lisbon and an exhibition of my
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Convention (Portugal). I wrote twenty three
You can read "Jamilti" by Rutu Modan for free, here: entries in the book 1001 Comics You Must
Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 I was
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Actus Tragicus (left to right: Yirmi Pinkus, Mira Friedmann, Rutu Modan, Batia Kolton, Itzik Rennert wonderfully
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Rutu Modan's Jamilti - Coda José Muñoz Sobre Carlos Nine!

José Muñoz, Carlos Loiseau (Caloi), Carlos

Nine, Caloi en su tinta , años noventa. Sì,
atorrante, hijo de zapateros, como yo, mas...

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Isabelinho

I'm a Portuguese comics critic. I

contributed to the magazines:
Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite
Internacional, Splaft! and the catalogs of the
Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions
(Portugal), The Comics Journal, The
International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.),
L'indispensable (France), European Comic Art
(UK). I also wrote the preface to one of the
latest editions of Guido Buzzelli's book I
Labirinti (Italy). I co-curated a Buzzelli
exhibition in Lisbon and an exhibition of my
original art collection in the Beja Comics
Convention (Portugal). I wrote twenty three
entries in the book 1001 Comics You Must
2. Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 I was
invited to the seminar Aesthetics of
Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway). In the
last half dozen years, I came back to where I
started: i.e.: writing for Manuel Caldas.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 Featured Post

Jossot's Le Credo and Dressage José Muñoz Sobre Carlos Nine!

José Muñoz, Carlos Loiseau (Caloi), Carlos

Nine, Caloi en su tinta , años noventa. Sì,
atorrante, hijo de zapateros, como yo, mas...

L'Assiette au Beurre (1901 - 1912) was a French anarchist satirical magazine. Great artists
published their virulent words and drawings in the mag's pages: Felix Valloton, Kees Van
Donguen, Frantisek Kupka, Juan Gris, Jacques Villon, are all important avant garde painters (from Image: Keith Haring; header: George Herriman
the nabis, Vallotton, to Fauvism, Van Donguen, to Cubism, the other three). This list would be
impressive enough, but the best graphic artists of the age also published in L'Assiette: Benjamin About Me
Rabier (well known for his laughing animals, mainly for a certain cow linked to a cheese label),
Caran d'Ache, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (of Le Chat Noir fame), Adolphe Willette (ditto), Nadar, Isabelinho
Gustave-Henri Jossot. Other contributors are not as well known as the above outfit, but they also I'm a Portuguese comics critic. I
deserve to be mentioned (a few at random; my excuses to all the others): Jules Grandjouan, contributed to the magazines:
Hermann Paul, Bernard Naudin, Aristide Delannoy, Louis Malteste, Ricardo Flores, Emmanuel Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite
Barcet, Auguste Roubille, Leal da Câmara. The latter is a relatively known, in his homeland that is, Internacional, Splaft! and the catalogs of the
Portuguese cartoonist. Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions
(Portugal), The Comics Journal, The
Here's a site dedicated to the magazine:
International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.),
L'indispensable (France), European Comic Art
(UK). I also wrote the preface to one of the
http://www.assietteaubeurre.org/
latest editions of Guido Buzzelli's book I
Labirinti (Italy). I co-curated a Buzzelli
You can read Jossot's "Le credo", for free, here:
exhibition in Lisbon and an exhibition of my
original art collection in the Beja Comics
http://www.assietteaubeurre.org/credo/credo_f1.htm Convention (Portugal). I wrote twenty three
entries in the book 1001 Comics You Must
Ditto "dressage", here: Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 I was
invited to the seminar Aesthetics of
http://www.assietteaubeurre.org/dressage/dress_p1.htm Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway). In the
last half dozen years, I came back to where I
started: i.e.: writing for Manuel Caldas.
I have a confession to make: I have a problem with humor in the arts. I firmly believe that art's
purpose (apart from formalist concerns that must always be present) is to unveil some kind of View my complete profile
truth. Laughter, as Charles Baudelaire said more than a century ago (1855) is satanical:
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Either we laugh for frivolous reasons or we laugh at someone's expenses. I would place satire
above the innocent joke (if such a thing exists) no doubt, but a satirical caricature is always a Select Language
simplification. If manichaeism and scope reduction is what bothers me in most mass art
(children's comics included, of course) why do I like Jossot's satirical comics? And are they even Powered by Translate
comics at all?
Certainly there's no lineal story in "Le credo" (a lifetime is told in "Dressage"). This narrative form
"The public is
is often called a cycle. Modernism allowed other art forms to expand their limits. I see no valid wonderfully
reasons to deny comics such freedom. Plus: does a comic really need to tell a story (lineal or tolerant. It forgives
otherwise) in order to be called, a comic? I don't think so, and that's all I'm saying for now. As for everything except
disliking, up to a point, I must add, 99 % of what the comics milieu considers a canon of comics My Blog List genius."
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 Featured Post

Jossot's Le Credo and Dressage - Coda José Muñoz Sobre Carlos Nine!

José Muñoz, Carlos Loiseau (Caloi), Carlos

Nine, Caloi en su tinta , años noventa. Sì,
atorrante, hijo de zapateros, como yo, mas...

1.

Image: Keith Haring; header: George Herriman

About Me

Isabelinho

I'm a Portuguese comics critic. I

contributed to the magazines:
Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite
Internacional, Splaft! and the catalogs of the
Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions
(Portugal), The Comics Journal, The
International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.),
L'indispensable (France), European Comic Art
(UK). I also wrote the preface to one of the
2.
latest editions of Guido Buzzelli's book I
Labirinti (Italy). I co-curated a Buzzelli
exhibition in Lisbon and an exhibition of my
original art collection in the Beja Comics
Convention (Portugal). I wrote twenty three
entries in the book 1001 Comics You Must
Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 I was
invited to the seminar Aesthetics of
Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway). In the
last half dozen years, I came back to where I
started: i.e.: writing for Manuel Caldas.
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Monday, September 29, 2008 Featured Post

Steinlen's La Vision de Hugo José Muñoz Sobre Carlos Nine!

José Muñoz, Carlos Loiseau (Caloi), Carlos

Nine, Caloi en su tinta , años noventa. Sì,
atorrante, hijo de zapateros, como yo, mas...

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen lived and worked mainly in Paris. A
prolific illustrator with a remarkably naturalistic drawing technique Steinlen recorded bohemian
Montmartre's proletarians' lives (he was a Realist at the end of the century, but some of his
drawings can't avoid kitchy "oh, the humanity!" melodrama). He's mostly known today because of
his black cat advertising Le Chat Noir cabaret (Steinlen loved cats, by the way). During WWI he did
propaganda against the Germans, embracing interventionism in Serbia, for instance...
Here's a great site dedicated to Théophile Steinlen:
http://www.steinlen.net/main.php Image: Keith Haring; header: George Herriman
Here you can read La vision de Hugo, for free:
http://www.assietteaubeurre.org/hugo/hugo_f1.htm
La vision de Hugo is a denunciation of colonialism. French writer Victor Hugo is seen here as the About Me
heir of the romantic high ideals defended by the American and French Revolutions. If that's what Isabelinho
their vision was, this globalized blood bath is what they achieved. Steinlen saw the lambs being
I'm a Portuguese comics critic. I
slaughtered by arrogant Europeans in 1902 (let's not forget that the Paris Exhibition two years
contributed to the magazines:
before had an incredibly racist human zoo), but he couldn't foresee how the wolves would attack
Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite
each other a few years later provoking an equally huge carnage. Internacional, Splaft! and the catalogs of the
Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions
Image: (Portugal), The Comics Journal, The
a double-page spread in La Vision de Hugo published in L'Assiette au Beurre # 47 (February, 1902). International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.),
L'indispensable (France), European Comic Art
(UK). I also wrote the preface to one of the
latest editions of Guido Buzzelli's book I
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Labirinti (Italy). I co-curated a Buzzelli
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original art collection in the Beja Comics
Convention (Portugal). I wrote twenty three
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Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 I was
Jorge said... invited to the seminar Aesthetics of
Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway). In the
Parabéns Domingos! Acho que o teu blog vai ser um sucesso pelo número de visitas em tão
last half dozen years, I came back to where I
pouco tempo. O teu perfil já foi visto 147 vezes. A tua fotografia é um achado... tinhas vinte e started: i.e.: writing for Manuel Caldas.
tal, não?
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Steinlen's La Vision de Hugo - Coda José Muñoz Sobre Carlos Nine!

José Muñoz, Carlos Loiseau (Caloi), Carlos

Nine, Caloi en su tinta , años noventa. Sì,
atorrante, hijo de zapateros, como yo, mas...

1.

Image: Keith Haring; header: George Herriman

About Me

Isabelinho

I'm a Portuguese comics critic. I

contributed to the magazines:
Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite
Internacional, Splaft! and the catalogs of the
Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions
(Portugal), The Comics Journal, The
International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.),
L'indispensable (France), European Comic Art
(UK). I also wrote the preface to one of the
latest editions of Guido Buzzelli's book I
2. Labirinti (Italy). I co-curated a Buzzelli
exhibition in Lisbon and an exhibition of my
original art collection in the Beja Comics
Convention (Portugal). I wrote twenty three
entries in the book 1001 Comics You Must
Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 I was
invited to the seminar Aesthetics of
Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway). In the
last half dozen years, I came back to where I
started: i.e.: writing for Manuel Caldas.
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My Blog List genius."