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Read my full review of "The Grande Odalisque" v1

Last week's podcast topics were art-based, and inspired by this book.

• "Are You Too Quick to Judge?"
• "Art Doesn't Need to be Perfect"

Also mentioned in this episode: Another heist book, "Curtain Call"

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Read my full review of Freaks' Squeele volume 1, "Strange University"

I also mentioned "FRNK", which I reviewed here.

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"La Grande Odalisque" is an imperfect painting. Borne of a school of technical art that strongly believed in perfect anatomical representation, its painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres chose instead to emphasize beauty over perfection. He screwed up the anatomy to make a painting that he thought was better.

This got me to thinking about how comic art is filled with purposeful imperfection, how well that might work, and why it's not such a bad thing. In other words, are J. Scott Campbell's women "bad art" or just a series of conscious choices to create a specific look that amounts to his style? Is "perfect anatomy" the be all and end all of art? Should comic book artists not be judged so harshly on whether they get it "right"?

My review of "The Grande Odalisque" v1

Khan Academy lessons on the painting

A real human in the same pose for anatomical reference.

The Louvre's page dedicated to the painting.

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My full review of the book will be available on PipelineComics.com in the days ahead.

For the younger listeners who didn't get the reference: Wikipedia explains the classic 80s sit-com, My Two Dads

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"Black Water Lilies" is an amazing murder/mystery book that I read last week and instantly went to the microphone to talk about.

I've also since written up a full review of it on the site that you can find here:

"Black Water Lilies: A Novel Turned Graphic Novel"

That review also contains the video of Cassegrain's painting technique that I mentioned in the podcast.

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Where do new comic readers come from? From listening to interviews with comics creators, reading comments from comic readers, and seeing trends, I can point to three moments that brought new comic readers into the world. In order, they are:

• The GI Joe TV commercial
• The Saturday morning X-Men animated series
• The Borders-era Manga boom

I'll talk about all of those and bring you some fun nostalgic audio along the way.

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In episode 21, I discussed four Lewis Trondheim books (with Thierry Robin on art in two cases) that included no dialogue. Silent comics.

In this episode, I'm looking at a variety of other silent books coming out of France, most of which are even available in print today.

Read My Reviews:

• Paris Soirees
• Love: The Fox
• Betty Boob
• A Sea of Love
• Game Over

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The easiest French comics to read would be the silent ones -- there's nothing to translate!

As it happens, Lewis Trondheim wrote four of them that did get translated (!) about 15 years ago, and that's what this show is about: Li'l Santa, Mr. O, and Mr. I. They're all great books, and I'm going to explain why.

Li'l Santa: Preview Pages (Amazon [affiliate link])

Happy Halloween, Li'l Santa: Preview Pages (Amazon [affiliate link])

The latter is one is still available direct from NBM for a mere pittance of $3 at publication time! Buy it now!

Thierry Robin's previous work that I've reviewed: "The Death of Stalin"

Mister 0 (Amazon [affiliate link])

Mister I (Amazon [affiliate link])

In the next episode, I'll cover a bunch of silent French comics that you might also track down, including one that still has never been "translated."

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Still dreaming....

I would like nothing more than to organize my entire comic book collection into alphabetical order. I crave that organization.

But I also wouldn't want it. There are plenty of cases where sorting things in strict A-Z order would be more annoying than anything else. And what about the books-with-spines? I'll never have enough bookshelves for that.

Should we all just give up on the dream of bring order into the chaos that is out comic book collections? Let's talk through this....

Episode 18: "My Comics Collection Is a Mess"

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