Comics, Weakly

Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past few weeks. I’ve had almost no time to read comics lately… When translating/collecting works from prolific artists, publishers wisely publish the best material first. I mean, you want the people who pick up the first volumes to be impressed and keep buying. So what are we getting in the tenth volume of Fantagraphics’ monumental collection of Guido Crepax stuff? More than three thousand pages in? Yes, “Surreal Stories”, as the cover says, but I’m not sure that’s what most people would call these pieces. The main thing here is a two-hundred-page Bianca… er… non-story, where we basically see Bianca vaguely proceed from torturous tableau to torturous tableau. Crepax’s best stories are also pretty vague, but you feel compelled to keep reading, because things sorta kinda tie together in a strange way, but this is basically just a collection of Crepax’s fantasies. I mean, the line is still great, but it’s just hard not to fall asleep when trying to…