The first 121 pages follow a clear concept, namely to explore the life of the Core-Beat poets Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs. Those stories are either pretty much focused on their homoerotic sexlife or on the very basics of them moving around a lot while switching from one odd job to the next or ru...
I thought the story was good, but I wasn't very impressed with the art. I can't tell if Harvey Pekar did the drawings or Ed Piskor did, but the characters were all pretty basic and similar. Heather's trip was great though. I really enjoyed how the dialogue between characters told what could have bee...
This was a huge FCBD issue. Most are a little over twenty and this was almost six. It's also a huge amount of short stories, all originals, or unused material from larger volumes. Unused material counts as new to me since it was unpublished until now, though. Some were brilliant, some were w...
(Crossposted from my blog The Itinerant Librarian) This is a graphic novel history of the early days of hip hop and rap, and it all gets started in parks and nightclubs in the South Bronx. We get to see the rise of stars like Grandmaster Flash, the Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow, and others who worke...
My favorite pieces were about Kenneth Patchen & the Beat Chicks. Who knew Louise Fitzhugh illustrated a book about a little Beatnik girl(Suzuki Beane)before she wrote Harriet the Spy.
My favorite pieces were about Kenneth Patchen & the Beat Chicks. Who knew Louise Fitzhugh illustrated a book about a little Beatnik girl(Suzuki Beane)before she wrote Harriet the Spy.
The Joyce Brabner story is by far the best; the Jeffrey Lewis one about Tuli Kupferberg is also quite well done. Everything else is so dry ("he spent two years in California but then he returned to New York in July 1958" etc., etc.) that you'd be better off reading the Wikipedia articles. Also, most...
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