MOME Fall 2009 (MOME, #16) by Gary Groth


MOME Fall 2009 (MOME, #16)
Title : MOME Fall 2009 (MOME, #16)
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ISBN : 1606991531
ISBN-10 : 9781606991534
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 120
Publication : First published March 30, 2009

This issue features several of our favorite alternative comic artists of the last 15 years, bringing us great joy. Archer Prewitt is the first, with an all-new “Funny Bunny” strip created in between his active musical career. “The Moolah Tree” is the new Fuzz & Pluck graphic novel from Ted Stearn, following Fuzz & Pluck and Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville, beginning serialization here. We are equally proud to debut new work from Renée French, whose work is also featured on the front and back cover of this issue. And Nicholas Mahler debuts to ask "What Is Art?" (translated by secret weapon Kim Thompson).

Also: the second chapter of T. Edward Bak's "Wild Man - The Strange Journey - and Fantastic Accounts - of the Naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, from Bavaria to Bolshaya Zemlya (and Beyond)"; a new "Cold Heat" story by the team of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro & Jon Vermilyea; Dash Shaw interprets an episode of "Blind Date" into comics form; and new stories from Lilli Carré, Conor O'Keefe, Laura Park, Nate Neal, and Sara Edward-Corbett, with incidental drawings by Kaela Graham.

MOME Fall 2009 (MOME, #16) Reviews

  • StrictlySequential

    Possibly the most "out of house" talent I've seen in a Mome so far- going with so many they didn't "discover" isn't the Fantagraphics I've become used to. As for each statement- I wonder why?

    Top Shelf had the most books published by the collection of creators at that time but Fantagraphics has probably evened the score by now.

    I apologize = reviewing shorts takes too much time*


    The question that I actually want answered- why is there seemingly ZERO relationship between my favorite two (in business in U.S.)?- N.B.M. and them.

    +Rene French is creepy but not engaging plus she (would say "he" if wasn't U.S. named->) isn't even Canadian- DOUBLE boooring! Her shorts and the looks of her covers have kept me from buying said books but I may relent if one ever gets cheap enough.
    -->(I've essentially lost my interest in this country's fare because it's all just the same to me after reading so many books by nearly the lot of our creators)

    *For free, that is!

  • Bob Comparda

    This was one of the shorter issues of MOME with only 13 entries, the quality is improving though. Standouts in this issue included Laura Park and Ted Stearn.

    Archer Prewitt - Funny Bunny ⭐⭐⭐
    Ted Stearn - Fuzz & Pluck in "The Moolah Tree," Part 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Dash Shaw - Blind Date 1 ⭐⭐
    Lilli Carré - It Was Too Hot To Sleep Indoors ⭐⭐⭐
    Conor O'Keefe - Harvest ⭐⭐
    Ben Jones & Frank Santoro - Cold Heat ⭐⭐
    Ben Jones, Frank Santoro & Jon Vermilyea - Chocolate Gun Cold Heat: Kandril and Mufas ⭐⭐⭐
    Nicolas Mahler - "What Is Art?" ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Laura Park - Untitled ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    Nate Neal - Mindforkin' ⭐
    Renée French - Almost Sound, Part 1 ⭐⭐
    Sara Edward-Corbett - Young Me ⭐⭐
    T. Edward Bak - Wild Man: The Strange Journey and Fantastic Accounts of the Naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, From Bavaria to Bolshaya Zemlya (and Beyond), Part 2 ⭐⭐

  • Morgan

    Dash Shaw doing a lot of heavy lifting.

  • Andrew

    Most welcome new serial: "The Moolah Tree" by Ted Stearn

    Runner-up: "Almost Sound" by Renee French

    Worst comic: "Mindforkin'" by Nate Neal

  • Melissa

    I was kind of underwhelmed by this edition of Mome. I was excited about the e.t.Bak piece as he's my hometown hero, but found it rather disappointing. Oh well.

  • Linda

    Renee French's and E.T. Bak's pieces were my favorites.

  • Troy

    Another episode full of dark whimsy. Nothing stood out, but all of it was either good, damn good, or competent. Still the best regular anthology in the U.S.

  • Devowasright

    picking back up on this title after a bit of a hiatus. some stories are serialized, some stand alone, but all, without fail, are usually excellent.