There was a good article posted last week on BBC about Fantagraphics’ MOME publications—along with images from some of the comics, plus an interview with many of the Mome contributors—their takes on what MOME and comics are all about.
Links to the images and the interview transcript are at the top of the page. The direct link to the interview (which is the best part) is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A10125064
How some MOME contributors explain MOME:
Martin Cendreda: MOME is like a bunch of cartoonists gathered at a party, all talking about different things. But the party is in the form of a comic anthology ...
Paul Hornschemeier: ... MOME updates the dictionary, so to speak. No language is static, and this language of symbols is furiously evolving ...
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