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COWFEST Indie Book Review #3 - "STRING" Issue #11
We’re back to finish up this year’s Cowtown Alternative Comic Expo! Watch for reviews from the Chicago Comic-Con coming shortly, but before that look for a new look the website coming up in the next week. Now the boilerplate:
“String” is a monthly, black and white “half-mini-comic” (letter-sized paper fold once) from 7000 BC, who make “independent comics from New Mexico.” Each issue is thiry-two pages (including the front and back cover - no room wasted!), this time around with five stories. When I bought “THE DARKNESS FROM WARSAW’ I gave a copy of SHORT-STACK to Bram Meehan (the writer) he tossed me a couple of copies of “String” in return.
To contact any of the creators, and to check out more of their great work, go to 7000bc.org.
I scanned some pages out of the book and some did not turn out as well as I would have liked, but this is a blog, not the Sistine Chapel. If any of the artists’ are offended by the representation of their art I apologize. Send me a better resolution image and I will gladly replace the image here.
Friday, August 28, 2009
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Page #39 (left) and #43 of “The Darkness From Warsaw” - art by Jaime Chase (Bram Meehan, writer).
NOTE: Page numbers indicted are from the collected edition.
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REVIEW #3: “SWIZZLESTUCK” by Nick Sedillos
The two-page, four story “SWIZZLESTICK” packs a lot into its space in “String.” The first page features three stories with a more crude art style, but each is clever in a different way and the story telling and panel perspective are well done.
The second page, seen below, has a much cleaner line and style, but the language and feel of the story fit the tone of the previous three. I’ll let the page speak for itself.
Thanks for popping in on another round of reviews. To see more of “SWIZZLESTICK” and Nick Sedillos check out 7000bc.org.
REVIEW #1: “SOLSTICE” by Courtney Angermeier
This sixteen-page story is told all in splash pages, and all-in-all, in works quite well. An overlaying narrative frames the story between the events as they happened and the recollection, or lack thereof, the memory.
Ms. Angermeier’s the first creator from 7000 BC to get more than one review (“Peoplings,” last entry) for different stories. I can tell you this, I really like her approach. Straightforward in the beginning with such nice twists at the end, you can’t ask for more in a sixteen-panel/page story.
The art works quite well with the story, especially setting the scale for the cold, blustery day we the readers encounter. For more check out 7000bc.org and check out the pages below!
REVIEW #2: “THE DARKNESS FROM WARSAW: Part VI” by Bram Meehan and Jamie Chase
I just reviewed the collection of this story, so click here if you want to read a review of the full story and just not me rambling some more. Oh, and here’s some art from the book!
Page #8 and #9 from “Solstice” by Courtney Angermeier
Page #2 of “SWIZZLESTICK” by Nick Sedillos
