Mome Volume 18: Spring 2010 - Tapa blanda

Almost to a story, the bits and pieces of Mome [Vol. 18] just suck the careful reader in. Indeed, almost every contribution practically begs for critical examination, not to mention a different frame of mind. ... Some of the individual stories are just stunning. --Jeremy Nisen"

It must be said, of all the art comix anthologies, MOME is probably the most perfect distillation. Sometimes evolution works. --Heidi MacDonald ""The Beat" ""

Like Weirdo, Raw, and Drawn and Quarterly before it, Fantagraphics Mome has been the go-to showcase of its time for emerging alt-comics visionaries. Mome Vol. 18 is another excellent installment of the anthology series so excellent, in fact, that it s hard to single out a highlight. [Grade: ] A-. "

2008 found MOME on MANY year-end critics' lists, increasing academic and library interest, several gallery exhibitions mounted nationwide, and an increasingly potent well of top-notch, known and unknown talent, making every issue a surprising, dense and delightful read. With this season, the quarterly journal of comics will have brought over 2,000 pages of new comics to the world since its inception in 2005.

Upcoming contributors of short stories to MOME include: Dash Shaw, Lilli Carré, Al Columbia, Jonathan Bennett, Laura Park, Émile Bravo, Olivier Schrauwen, Tom Kaczynski, Ray Fenwick, Andrice Arp, Eleanor Davis, Nathan Neal, Conor O'Keefe, Jon Vermilyea, Robert Goodin, Sara Edward-Corbett, Derek Van Gieson, and many more.

As three serials ended in 2009, two more launch: T. Edward Bak's biography of German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller is certain to eventually become one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the decade. Ted Stearn's cult favorite characters (Matt Groening declares them “why I love comics”) now grace MOME with a new, serialized adventure in which the hapless Fuzz & Pluck discover a literal money tree. The ensuing entanglement of intrigue and desire is a surrealist, picaresque tour de force of comics storytelling with strong thematic ties to America's housing and financial meltdown, and the dreams that led to it. There's also a pirate, and we all know that pirates sell.