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“It was February 24, 2004, 08:27 AM, on the Comics
Journal Messboard.” This is the first phrase of my
blog, The Crib Sheet. What happened at that particular
day and particular hour was that I, fed up with the accusation
of not liking comics, decided to write a list of
my favorite ones. With that list my answer was: I like
comics, I just don’t like the same comics you like. This
is the genesis and explanation of this book’s subtitle,
“My Comics.” On the other hand, if you insist that
I don’t like comics because what’s in this book are
not precisely cartoonists, don’t worry, I like them too,
they’re just not here yet because I divided the comics
corpus in two: The Extended Field and The Restrict
Field. This book is, then, an anti-essentialist stance, a
cry of freedom from India Ink on board, if you like...
Domingos Isabelinho
Domingos Isabelinho was born in Lisbon in 1960. He contributed
to the magazines Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite Internacional, Splaft!,
various catalogs of the Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions
(Portugal), The Comics Journal, The International Journal of Comic Art
(U.S.A.), L’indispensable (France), European Comic Art (UK). He also
wrote the preface to one of the latest editions of Guido Buzzelli’s
book I Labirinti (Italy). He co-curated a Buzzelli exhibition in Lisbon
and an exhibition of his original art collection in the Beja Comics
Convention (Portugal). He wrote twenty three entries in the book 1001
Comics You Must Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 He was invited
to the seminar Aesthetics of Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway).
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