Blab! Volume 12

Rating:
Summary: style over substance
Review: blab is a very attractive book/magazine. it employs some of the most talented artists and designers in america today (chris ware, jason baseman, among many others...look them up, you may recognize their work if you don't already know them), doing short comic stories and illustrations, as well as one or two pieces of short text fiction and maybe an article or two. it is fascinating, and beautiful. the book is oversized, and is as coffee table ready as comics get without being a hardcover book. my only critique is that some of the stories are hollow, leaving me apathetic, lacking the meaning that, say, drawn & quarterly manages to give to their work. still, anyone who enjoys contemporary art, comics, or design, will at least find this lush book exciting.