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A real mixed bag of varying quality, but it's always weird and almost always interesting.
I'm going to be entirely honest here. This was mostly unskilled and actually pretty boring. I found myself setting it down several times out of boredom before picking it back up again, but I did finally finish it. I couldn't make it through many of these pieces without skimming. I'm not sure what inspires people to produce anticlimactic and directionless stories of an artless nature, but I suspect it's probably getting high and then having nothing to do... so we end up with "creative" busy work....
5 stars forArcher prewittSteven weissmanLale westvind
I finally get my greasy mitts on a Kramers Ergot collection. I love Sammy Harkham's work but he's either not very prolific or just hard to find. I used to dislike anthology series, but now I typically find them highly enjoyable. I've just learned to ignore the stories I disliked and I tend to not factor them heavily in my score. After all, I think I would rather anthology to have some really great stories and be inconsistent than be consistently average. It's all about the best stories, it's eas...
Great piece from Kim Deitch, heartfelt story from Gabrielle Bell, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright's stuff made me laugh. The good stuff is really good but most of the pieces weren't. Not really worth the price of nice meal. Try to get it from the library or borrow it from a friend.
A fun way to discover new artists! Kind of annoying because many are only short excerpts of longer works, but that's kind of the point. It's a nice showcase of unusual comic artists.
I never paid this much money for a comic in my fucking life. But I was helping out a new bookstore owner, and I figured I'd get the best comix ever here. And there are a few pieces in this that are astounding, funny, and truly innovative. But overall, the majority of the stories are uninspired, hipster bullshit, with very little visual and narrative invention on display. I'm tired of this shit, from North American comics. We need to step up the game.
Overall, I enjoyed the latest Kramers Ergot. And there are some selections from it that are truly outstanding, pieces that are some of my favorite reads of this year. The Kim Deitch contribution is one that immediately leaps to mind. But as a complete text, an anthology with a cohesiveness (however loose), I'm less enthusiastic. There were a number of contributions that were mediocre, or at least they didn't do much for me. Maybe one of the problems for me is that I had high expectations for thi...
Wild artsy bits. Seems like an excuse for transgressive stuff at times.
El tomo está bueno y tiene artistas re copados, algunas historias ya las había leído por qué son extractos de libros ya publicados pero no deja de ser una buena selección, no me gustó que en el medio del libro haya un femicidio como simple aporte a la trama esa cómic me pareció re de más pero bueno siempre hay un macho de mierda arruinando todo.
Hit or miss, as most anthologies are. Favorite bits were from Dash Shaw, (holy shit, that ruled) John Pham, Jerry Moriarty, Gabrielle Bell, and a couple others.
It was Ok...as with any collections, there are flashes of brilliance and those that make you wonder "why is this here?"
Aside from one or two pieces that are tolerable, this is mostly a compendium of the sort of bullshit, nonsensical art comics that I despise. Garbage and a pure waste of time.
It feels almost sacrilegious to give an issue of Kramers Ergot three stars, but please read on for my reasons. By nature, anthologies are a mixed bag. That's in part, why I am always drawn to them. You may not love every piece included, but hopefully you'll find at least one new artist you weren't previously aware of to follow. This issue of Kramers has plenty of heavy hitters whose work I'll always be interested in reading (Steven Weissman, John Pham, Julia Gfrörer, Kim Deitch, Archer Prewitt (...
Some pretty good stuff. Worth it just for the Kim Deitch and two other artists I don't know named Lale Westvind and Trevor Alixopulos. There were a couple of throwaways one pagers that just weren't the right size, needed a larger format. I found myself surprised when a story actually made sense. And I don't mind this so much if either the tone is interesting or the art is nice to look at. But there are a lot of stories in this book that are intentional nonsense and meant to be ugly. Not a big fa...
(edit) I'm updating this review from when I first read this collection when it was released in 2016. I didn't know what kind of impact it would have on me at the time but it threw me deeper into comics than I could've anticipated and I now see it as one of the most important collections I've read. This individual collection isn't perfect, but what Kramers does is amazing and is much needed in a comics world where academic attention is dumped on some of the most dull and safe examples of the form...
