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By various (Fantagraphics Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-56097-872-5<\/p>\n
The latest volume of the alternative cartooning and graphic arts series is truly autumnal in tone despite the addition of many more brightly coloured pages. The experimental nature of the features is often challenging but the rewards are great for the devotee prepared to work with the material rather than slavishly absorb. It also helps to let go of style preconceptions.<\/p>\n
This volume features a fantastic variety of work by Ray Fenwick, Tim Hensley, Al Columbia, Eleanor Davis, Gabrielle Bell, Andrice Arp, Joe Kimball, Tom Kaczynski, Kurt Wolfgang, Brian Evenson, Zak Sally, Paul Hornschemeier and Sophie Crumb. There’s also a frankly astounding art feature on the multi-media illustrator Mike Scheer, but the real gem is the first instalment of a wordless and surreal epic ‘The Lute String’<\/em> by Jim Woodring.<\/p>\n Mome<\/strong> is as much magazine as book and each one is a graphic event. The earnest and dedicated creators make intense and often hard to read comics which are then reproduced to the highest print standards. It is well on the way to achieving its goal of becoming the twenty-first century successor to Art Spiegelman’s seminal Raw<\/strong>. This one, as always, is challenging, diverting, pretentious, absorbing, compelling, annoying and wonderful.<\/p>\n If you love our art form and think without moving your lips you need to see this series.<\/p>\n Mome \u00c2\u00a9 2007 Fantagraphics Books. Individual stories are \u00c2\u00a9 the respective creator. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By various (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-56097-872-5 The latest volume of the alternative cartooning and graphic arts series is truly autumnal in tone despite the addition of many more brightly coloured pages. The experimental nature of the features is often challenging but the rewards are great for the devotee prepared to work with the material rather … <\/p>\n