Its goal is clarity of purpose and to deliver compelling facts much like a documentary. “The Outside Circle” is a very sincere work with more of an earnest tone. We can do a little bit of comparing to my previous review dealing with Aboriginal people. It’s perfect timing for me to start off with the first entry to the latest KE, volume 9. The shifts can be jarring but the payoffs can be great too. This is where anything goes with subversion ruling the day. In the case of the comics anthology, “ Kramers Ergot,” it is, without a doubt, totally in the fine arts camp. This level of responsibility, and relative notoriety, easily consumes him threatening an already shaky relationship with his wife, Ida.įrom Steven Weissman’s “Silver Medicine Horse”Īs I stated in my previous review for “The Outside Circle,” about an Aboriginal’s journey, you get to that point in the process where you say your work is more like A than B or C. Our anti-hero, Seymour, working at one of these cheap movie studios and patiently waiting his turn, has been promoted leaving him in charge of his own movie. Fans and critics alike have been patiently waiting for the various parts they’ve read published elsewhere to all come together and so here we go: a story about Hollywood, its underbelly in fact, the exploitation scene of the 1970s. This particular work is at the masterpiece level when it comes to full-length graphic novels. $30.Ī quick and apt description of the comics created by Sammy Harkham would be “painfully honest.” While this sentence alone may not mean very much to the vast sea of potential readers, it will resonate with many, not only the comics aficionado but the general reader.

Kramers Ergot #7 by Sammy Harkham