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I, René Tardi, Prisoner Of War In Stalag IIB Vol. 2: My Return Home by...
Robert BoydI, René Tardi, Prisoner Of War In Stalag IIB Vol. 2: My Return Home by Jacques Tardi(Fantagraphics Books, 2019) This volume is a little more expository than the first volume. As the Russians...
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The Texas Connection to the George Washington High Mural Controversy
Robert BoydOver the past few months, there has been a simmering controversy over a series of murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco. The murals, painted as frescos in 1936 by Victor...
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Dispossession by Simon Grennan
Dispossession by Simon Grennan (Jonathan Cape, 2014)Adaptations of classic literature into comics form are almost universally terrible, so one would be forgiven for imagining that this adaptation of...
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Michael Galbreth, RIP
Michael Galbreth, the tall half of the Art Guys, died yesterday. I'm staggering under this news. There is much to say about this man and his work. Perhaps once I have collected my thoughts, I will...
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Robert BoydToday I went to a lunch lecture put on by the Houston Symphony for the education of those of us who work for Symphony. Calvin Dotsey, the editor of our program magazine, InTune, gives talks...
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The Best Comics of The Decade
Robert BoydIn 1990, I worked on one of my favorite publishing projects, a two-volume anthology called The Best Comics of the Decade, published by Fantagraphics Books and co-edited with Gary Groth and...
View ArticleOne More List
Robert BoydThis list comes from Kim Jooha, who was the associate publisher of 2dcloud and is a writer about comics. 2dcloud is one of the most adventurous publishers of comics today, which gives you an...
View ArticleRevised Best Comics of the Decade Lists
Robert BoydAt the beginning of the year, I conflated 6 best-of-the-decade lists into one list (two actually--one for publications, one for artists). I figured my work was done. Then this week, I heard...
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Pictures of Artists
Robert BoydLast weekend, Jack Massing hosted a one-day only exhibit dedicated his recently deceased partner Michael Galbreth. (They were the Art Guys.) The entire Houston art community showed up. I...
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The Man Without Talent
Robert BoydYoshiharu Tsuge, The Man Without Talent (2019, New York Review of Books)Yoshiharu Tsuge, "Red Flowers" published in RAW 7, drawn in 1966, published in English in 1985Back in 1985, Yoshiharu...
View ArticleAn Apocalyptic Dream
Robert BoydI dreamed I was living through a societal collapse. Things were breaking down and not getting repaired, and people were just dealing with it as well as they could. A slow-motion apocalypse....
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Go Read My Review of Patrick Renner's Current Exhibit
I wrote about Bounty, Patrick Renner's huge new installation up not at Redbud Gallery. The review is up at Glasstire.
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Archive Art
Robert BoydJust before coronavirus shut everything down, I went to San Antonio for Novel Ideas, Blue Star Contemporary's art book fair. The keynote speaker was Julie Ault, who had been a member of the...
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A Coronavirus Dream
Robert Boyd“What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Reports: 3 New York Dadas + The Blind Man
by Robert Boyd I decided to start using my free time (being an unemployed guy whose job was ended by COVID) creatively. I've been reading a lot, so I decided I would record brief reports of books as I...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Reports 2: The Mystery of Rio
Robert BoydI read another book this week, and talk about it here. The book is The Mystery of Rio by Alberto Mussa.
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Robert Boyd's Book Report 3: Evil Geniuses
Robert BoydThis week I'm talking about Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Anderson. There are a lot of awkward jump cuts where I edited the video. This is the first...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Ganzfeld 7
Robert BoydToday, my book is an old one (published in 2008): Ganzfeld 7 edited and published by Dan Nadel. I've reviewed Nadel's books and exhibits in the past, including his work on HairyWho, his...
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