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July 5th

Summer Loving: Inbound Anthology #3

July 5, 2009 - 22:19 | Xaviar Xerexes

A little late but better than never?  The third edition of the solid-to-really-good anthology Inbound: Comics From Boston from the Boston Comics Roundtable group is all about the romance, the love, the heartache and pain and that's worth reading about now just as much as when I first read through this book back in the Spring.

The Deformitory

July 5, 2009 - 19:10 | Xaviar Xerexes

Sophia Wiedeman's The Deformitory is a small, black and white, graphic novel that adds just a touch of realism to its magical realism style.  The comic was also her masters thesis for her MFA in Illustration from The School of Visual Arts.  Last year, Wiedeman won a Xeric Foundation grant which she used for publication of The Deformitory.  Diamond will feature it in its August Previews issue and it will be available in comic shops this fall.

It is a very interesting work, a thoughtful literary comic that I read several times, each time finding new angles to think about.  It's hard not to give away the entire plot in discussing the work, but I am going to try.  So a partial "spoiler" warning perhaps...