Tango8: Love and Food
What:
Tango8: Love and Food
Where:
Here, Sticky, Brunswick Street Books, Polyester Books, Greville Street Books
How much:
$20
In the same way that Sesame Street trains kids to watch TV, MAD Magazine trained me to read comics: get a few quick jokes then move on. Other than Mandy Ord's excellent Rooftops I've never read a graphic novel in my life. Really. If I lived in Japan and had to read manga novels I'd kill myself (possibly in a Japanesy way like dressing up as a cutsy tear drop character then knifing kids coming out of a baseball game before running flat chat into an oncoming fugu).
So it is with great delight that I welcome Bernard Caleo's latest/greatest feat of bite-sized comics - Tango8: Love and Food. It's Australia's low-fi version of America's famous high-fi comic anthologies, and no better or worse, I reckon, just different paper stock. The aforementioned Ord is in, alongside big name novelists Bruce Mutard and Nicki Greenberg and Australia's best stand-up comedian who sits down and draws his jokes into cartoons, Andrew Weldon.
All up, a yummy Coles variety salad-in-a-bag collection of 70 Australian cartoonists cram 242 pages with short-attention-span-sating comics. Buy for yourself this Christmas, instead of any new American anthology you see.
Format: Comics
Motivation: Good with a whiskey in the bath
Keywords: Illustration, Cartoons
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