#graham chaffee

[oldschoolfrp]

It's a special Texas Bicentennial celebration down at the Armadillo Autoduel Arena in Austin (Graham Chaffee, for Allen Varney's Car Wars scenario in Autoduel Quarterly V4 N3, "Fall 2036, Special Texas Bicentennial Issue," Steve Jackson Games, September 1986)

[thefailurecult]

[koyamapress]

We are so super proud of Patrick Kyle and Rokudenashiko whose books Don’t Come in Here and What Is Obscenity? are nominated for L.A. Times Book Prize for best graphic novel/comics, which will be announced at a ceremony tomorrow hosted by Tig Notaro (!!!). Moreover, Patrick will be participating in a discussion this Saturday at 12:30pm with cartoonists Graham Chaffee and Anna Haifisch moderated by Benjamin Schwartz. More details on the awards ceremony here and Patrick’s talk here! 

[thefailurecult]

[ink-a-dink-a-doo]

Mermaid tattoo • by Graham Chaffee • Purple Panther Tattoos - Los Angeles, CA

[ajmcguire]

My review of Graham Chaffee’s “To Have and To Hold” is up on the Comics Journal today: http://www.tcj.com/reviews/to-have-to-hold/

A lot of crime comics have thin characters and ride the rails of of genre convention like the rail that guides the old-tyme cars ride at the amusement park.  (Incidentally my favorite ride at the amusement park, but that’s because I'm a mild-sauce type of guy when it comes to rides and I like the ones that allow my two year old daughter to participate with me.)  But “To Have and To Hold” fleshes out the characters in a way that takes the story to different places and does it in a way that doesn’t feel meta or self-aware.  I really loved this comic and spent a long time thinking about how Chaffee pulled it off.

[ajmcguire]

TOP 5 COMICS OF 2017

Graham Chafee - To Have and To Hold Great story, great character driven plot, sad sack heist gone wrong with tropes all inverted but not in a lame we’re-messing-with-your expectations type of way, more that these characters are actually real living breathing people not plot devices.  It’s so much better than any other crime comic published elsewhere.

Los Bros - L&R #4 Teenage maggie & hoppey ride again!  God is great!  Maggie's facial expressions in any given panel in this comic are better than the total of what most other good artists accomplish in their entire careers.

Jacque Tardi - Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge There was a gap there between Tardi books that was a little too long for comfort, but the wait was worth it.  Really great to compare this to his Manchete adaptations.  The scene where they go to movies was one of three great going-to-the-movies scenes this year along with Crickets #6 and Anti-Gone.

Deforge - Placeholders This was political in a way that was not didactic or superficial.  And the silk screen format complimented the inky goopy parts of his drawing. This is a perfect example of a comic which other artists can try and borrow style from, but there is so much more depth then just the style of the drawings.

Yuichi Yokoyama - Iceland The loudest comic I've ever read.

Lale Westvind - Mary I also loved the latest issue of Hot Dog Beach, but this comic continues in the tradition of “HAXX”, “Yazar and Akadas”, and her gallery art is much more of a flex for her.  I dont have vocabulary to explain why this fires my synpases so much.  She's the artist that inspires the feeling in me the most.

[pwcomicsworld]

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Live from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), Calvin interviews Ethan Rilly, creator of the acclaimed Pope Hats series from Ad House; and Heidi interviews Graham Chaffee, creator of the new graphic novel To Have and To Hold from Fantagraphics. In a separate interview, Calvin talks with writer Scott Snyder about his work on DC's All-Star Batman: My Own Worst Enemy with artist John Romita, Jr., part of DC's Rebirth line.

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