San Francisco Panorama, by various, 2009, McSweeney’s, 320 pages, $16.00
The independent publisher McSweeney’s recently released a new issue of its quarterly literary journal in the form of a newspaper called the San Francisco Panorama. It’s huge, beautifully designed, and includes contributors like Michael Chabon and Steven King. It’s a celebration of print newspapers, and the writers, editors, and publisher have clearly attempted to show off every facet of what makes newspapers unique and vital.
I’m struggling to come up with an appropriate metaphor for it: is it the last spark from a dying fire, or a brilliant torch lighting the way for others to follow? Either way, perhaps the smartest thing that they did was to not make the content available on the web. The only way for people to see this sucker is to pick up a hard copy and open it using their hands.
Here’s one of the few samples that they’ve put online:
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Looks great, doesn’t it? And as you can see, one of the pages in the spotlight is a comic by Adrian Tomine. McSweeney’s has already shown it is pro-comics, having published a well-regarded comics anthology (McSweeney’s Issue 13) and a new printing of a piece of graphic novel history, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary.
The San Francisco Panorama includes a entire section devoted to comics, with contributions from some of the most respected comic book creators around. Let’s turn that sheet of newspaper and take a look at what’s inside:
First are several short comic-strip style entries, from Keith Knight, Jon Adams, and Gabrielle Bell, and two from Michael Capozzola.
Review: McSweeney’s Issue 33: The San Francisco Panorama
San Francisco Panorama, by various, 2009, McSweeney’s, 320 pages, $16.00
The independent publisher McSweeney’s recently released a new issue of its quarterly literary journal in the form of a newspaper called the San Francisco Panorama. It’s huge, beautifully designed, and includes contributors like Michael Chabon and Steven King. It’s a celebration of print newspapers, and the writers, editors, and publisher have clearly attempted to show off every facet of what makes newspapers unique and vital.
I’m struggling to come up with an appropriate metaphor for it: is it the last spark from a dying fire, or a brilliant torch lighting the way for others to follow? Either way, perhaps the smartest thing that they did was to not make the content available on the web. The only way for people to see this sucker is to pick up a hard copy and open it using their hands.
Here’s one of the few samples that they’ve put online:
Looks great, doesn’t it? And as you can see, one of the pages in the spotlight is a comic by Adrian Tomine. McSweeney’s has already shown it is pro-comics, having published a well-regarded comics anthology (McSweeney’s Issue 13
) and a new printing of a piece of graphic novel history, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
.
The San Francisco Panorama includes a entire section devoted to comics, with contributions from some of the most respected comic book creators around. Let’s turn that sheet of newspaper and take a look at what’s inside:
First are several short comic-strip style entries, from Keith Knight, Jon Adams, and Gabrielle Bell, and two from Michael Capozzola.