References for today's sample panels

Perhaps you are wondering what the sources are for the various panels exhibited in class today (and reprinted in your photocopy packets). They are as follows:

1) The superheroes kissing as a nuclear device explodes are from Watchmen by Alan Moore (writer) and Dave Gibbons (artist), published by DC Comics.

2) Babs Bradley being assaulted in a car comes from Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge, the first of a two-volume set reprinting the comic book series Hate from Fantagraphics Books (the second volume is called Buddy Does Jersey). Bagge will be coming to town shortly; I'll try to find out the details and share them with you.

3) The Harlequin Romance-esque scene between the blonde beauty and her pointy-nosed French lover comes from Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds, published by Pantheon. We'll be reading this one towards the end of term.

4) The president of Blackland and his lover are pictured from Birth of a Nation, written by Aaron McGruder (Boondocks) and Reginald Hudlin and drawn by Kyle Baker (who will be a guest at ICAF this October at the Library of Congress), published by Three Rivers Press.

5) Enid Coleslaw practically loves Josh in Ghost World by Daniel Clowes (an anagram of "Enid Coleslaw"), published by Fantagraphics. The film version directed by Terry Zwigoff is worth viewing, though quite different in plot from the graphic novel.

6) Quinn is surprised by a kiss from Peter Stillman's wife in this scene from the graphic novel version of Paul Auster's City of Glass, adapted by Paul Karasik and illustrated by David Mazzucchelli; published by Picador. This one's on the syllabus.

7) A tender kiss between two lovers in Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby, published by Paradox Press, an imprint of DC Comics.

8) A couple of panels from Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons, published by Sasquatch Books; we'll be reading this one, too.

9) An ecstatic kiss in Craig Thompson's autobiographical Blankets, published by Top Shelf.

10) Berkeley-based Ariel Schrag (now a writer for The L Word) kisses her girlfriend in area bathrooms in these panels from Potential, published by Slave Labor.

11) James Kochalka, as a bucktoothed elf, doesn't exactly relish his buddy Cooley's offer to make out, even though Cooley is portrayed as a cute dog; from a backup feature in Dylan Horrocks's Atlas #1, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

All of these comics are entertaining, interesting, and well worth reading.