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	<title>The Walrus Blog &#187; Four-Colour Words</title>
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	<description>Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated.</description>
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		<title>The Somebody: an Interview With Jeff Lemire</title>
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I admire how restless Jeff Lemire seems to be. Look at the career trajectory the Toronto cartoonist has charted for himself, look at how urgently he&#8217;s laid down every penline and brushstroke — you get the sense that this guy needs to tell stories. In 2007, following a Xeric Foundation grant and a self-published debut, Lemire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2010/01/08/the-somebody-an-interview-with-jeff-lemire/</link>
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		<title>Chegg It Oot: An Interview With Marc Bell</title>
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You may have noticed, decorating the pages of the December issue of The Walrus, a series of little drawings called “Schematic Diagrams for Proposed Objects.” These colourful chunks were chipped away from the alternate reality that Canadian artist Marc Bell has been building for the past decade and more: a populous, overwhelming place where “everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/11/20/chegg-it-oot-an-interview-with-marc-bell/</link>
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		<title>All Hallows&#8217; Sheaves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Halloween, once again, one and all! This year I ask that we consider some choice old horror anthologies, in whose pages lurk all sorts of scares and shocks. The horror tradition in comics has long been dominated by a model developed by the EC comics company in the 1950s, whose titles like Tales from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/10/30/all-hallows-sheaves/</link>
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		<title>Encore! Encore! Recent Comics Reprints</title>
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Four-Colour Words returns from a Toronto International Film Festival–induced hiatus — if you can, catch up with Face and Trash Humpers, both of them brassy, unabashed image-making of the first rank — to examine a few important comics that have resurfaced lately. Newspaper pages have shrunk and pamphlets have retrenched to the point of insignificance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/09/28/encore-encore-recent-comics-reprints/</link>
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		<title>Pynchon and comics</title>
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In his new novel, Inherent Vice, released last week and reportedly self-promoted here (though I have my doubts), there&#8217;s a part where Thomas Pynchon has a character say, “I am aware of the Freak Brothers&#8217; dictum that dope will get you through times of no money better than vice versa&#8230;.” Later, another says, “Listen, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/08/12/pynchon-and-comics/</link>
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		<title>Abstract Comics</title>
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Imagine a book publisher had released a retrospective on &#8220;The Graphic Novel&#8221; in 1976, or that a cinema hosted a look back at France’s nouvelle vague in 1957, or that a gallery exhibit somewhere spotlighted American Abstract Expressionism in, say, 1946. The experience would have been not unlike reading Abstract Comics: The Anthology today. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/08/01/abstract-comics/</link>
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		<title>Martin Vaughn-James, RIP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An important and neglected Canadian cartoonist for Coach House Books, Martin Vaughn-Smith was

Martin Vaughn-James passed away on July 3. In the histories of comics in Canada and comics as book-length narratives he played an important and often neglected role. His importance stems not just from the fact that he was a Canadian cartoonist when so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/07/16/martin-vaughn-james-rip/</link>
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		<title>Asterios Polyp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A review of David Mazzucchelli&#8217;s new graphic novel, Asterios Polyp. 
David Mazzucchelli’s worn an astonishing number of hats over the past quarter century. He achieved fame in the ’80s as the last great superhero comics artist, though the stories he worked on stripped the heroes of their costumes, rooting them realistically in urban milieux, among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/07/08/asterios-polyp/</link>
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		<title>From Page to, um, Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walrus writer Jon Evans talks about the creation of his new comic book for Vertigo/DCJon Evans is the writer of The Walrus blog World Fast Forward.
Hear me, O my rapturous children, and I will tell you the saga of page thirty-eight.
By which I mean: the lettered page proofs for my forthcoming graphic novel The Executor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/22/from-page-to-um-page/</link>
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		<title>Joost Swarte: Further (Summer) Reading</title>
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This month, the summer reading issue of The Walrus boasts an eye-catching cover by the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte. His crisp style and high-concept approach help to razor his illustrations into our consciousness before we even know what we’re seeing. Feel like you’ve come across his work before? Odds are either you have, in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/06/16/joost-swarte-further-summer-reading/</link>
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