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JOE MATT - POOR BASTARD

directly from the underground Canadian / American comes this collection of short stories by Joe Matt, one of many "children" by Robert Crumb.
Joe uses his cartoons, strictly six per page, to tell us their lives by focusing on its problems of emotional and sexual nature. His love-hate relationship with Trish, his mania for the porn and masturbation, his search for the perfect woman, the ways to earn da vivere e arrotondare il misero guadagno che trae dai fumetti, gli inseparabili amici e colleghi Cester Brown e Seth sono solo alcuni dei punti focali del racconto.
Figlio della solitudine e dei problemi relazionali, Joe Matt rinuncia alla sua privacy infondendo nei suoi racconti il verbo di Bukowski: "La gente è il più grande spettacolo del mondo. E non si paga il biglietto" (per citarne uno).
Il suo vero pregio è l'immediatezza con cui esprime le situazioni, gli stati emotivi e le gag comiche.
Tuttora Matt continua a pubblicare le sue storie che spero vengano presto tradotte in italiano.


Joe Matt
Poor Bastard
Brossurato con sovracopertina, 172 p.. b / w
16.50 €
Coconino Press

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VAUGHAN & RISSO - WOLVERINE: LOGAN

The premises were all for a good story: one of the best comics writers of the square and one of the designers more talented and versatile as ever.
But if you write a story so short and you do those, though good, the designs of one of the greatest interpreters of black and white as ever, perhaps the result will not be much.
Unfortunately, this volume, which contains a mini three, is not quite successful.
The setting and the historical period, Japan's Hiroshima bomb with his "little boy", create a good connection, but the same old woman loved her die on duty undermines not just the originality of the story.
Vaughan writes a simple story from the dialogue a little intrusive and leaves the field open emotion of the reader.
Risso is flawless as usual and its stroke is just softer. Too bad for the excellent coloring, which was entirely avoidable. In America they remember, and so the story came out in black and white.
short, without infamy and without praise. Pity, because I expected more.


Vaughan & Risso
Wolverine: Logan
Hardcover, 80 p.. Color
12 €
Panini Comics

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TARDI - LEGRAND - AMMAZZASCARAFAGGI

I think it's one of the first volumes Coconino past and I think also a bit muted.
fact is that this couple of French authors gives us a nice noir full of intrigues and conspiracies. Eisenhower
Walter is the son of a German woman sold to an American officer, whose wife could not have children, with the promise of a better life in America. Obviously this does not happen and Walter finds himself thirty-odd years with a sedentary lifestyle, with the loneliness and carried out by the unrewarding job of killing cockroaches. During business hours
Walter happens by chance on a landing something wrong and feels that he should not hear. From here the story takes off from New York's neighborhoods, Hispanic Americans and underworld society.
Technically, the narrative is well structured and based on patterns of 50s pulp classic, full of sharp jokes and rhythmically tight.
master's designs are Late to the maximum, so that the representation of New York is a real postcard.
By the way, but the story itself is original and takes advantage of the usual cliches of film noir. So what to do? Well we must dig deeper and get to find the theme of the cycle that the authors have imposed work. In particular there is a repetition of the places "photographed" by late, especially when opening and closing of the book, as if this story could be repeated indefinitely, simply by changing the protagonist. We can see how the concept of man and cockroach is interchangeable and that the association underworld can be seen as a sort of business-men to kill cockroaches. Ultimately
paranoid like red, single color, which marks the character and affects the city. In Appendix
a kind of reflection of late and with a short story by Legrand that can reveal a lot about the intent of the work.

Later - Legrand
Ammazzascarafaggi
Paperback, 64 p.. two-tone
12.39 €
Coconino Press