Sara Cole

Abstract Comics

By Sara Cole

If nothing else, it seems that Abstract Comics makes explicit that the line between comics and high art is beginning to disappear. [16 September 2009]

The Boy Who Would Be The Beast of the Apocalpyse: Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, Mythology, and the Human

By Sara Cole

Hellboy essentially argues that biology indeed need not be destiny, and that to exist as a human means something more than possessing a certain normative appearance. [24 August 2009]

I Saw You: Comics, the Internet, and Everyday Life

By Sara Cole

In this Iconographies feature, I Saw You will be used as a spring-board to understanding how the internet might be examined and made sense of through comics. [21 July 2009]

Stitches

By Sara Cole

Like many non-graphic memoirs that have received loads of attention and landed their composers appearances on Oprah, Small’s Stitches recounts an extremely harrowing tale of childhood. [27 October 2009]

West Coast Blues

By Sara Cole

Perhaps what makes West Coast Blues so captivating is how well it highlights the similarities between film and comics, while simultaneously showcasing its own unique ability as a graphic novel to capture the noir aesthetic through word and image. [13 October 2009]

Galactic Zoo Dossier #8

By Sara Cole

Underground music and comics, while both inspiring each other, too, inspire a lot of similar fan behavior as Galactic Zoo Dossier demonstrates. [10 September 2009]

Prayer Requested

By Sara Cole

Despite its aesthetic slickness and original subject matter, Prayer Requested comes of feeling a little uninspired and flat. [13 August 2009]

The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders

By Sara Cole

So what is it about The Photographer that makes it seem so particularly effective in its story-telling? One reason may be that it is not exactly a comic book. [28 July 2009]

Tank Girl One and Tank Girl Two

By Sara Cole

There’s something about Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s Tank Girl re-printed collections that feels like a time capsule. [14 July 2009]

The Bun Field

By Sara Cole

The world of The Bun Field is one in which the reader is forced into the child-like state of both unbridled imagination, coupled with uncertainty, and a certain inability to quite fathom what is happening around oneself. [18 June 2009]

Nocturnal Conspiracies

By Sara Cole

Dreams are presented as reports with no analysis. In fact, readers get the sense that they are having the dream themselves, as they are equally lost and unaware in these curious dream worlds. [14 April 2009]

Tamara Drewe

By Sara Cole

With its hyper-self-awareness of class and clout yearnings among the middle-class, Tamara Drewe comes off a bit like the graphic novel equivalent of Frasier. [2 April 2009]

Capacity

By Sara Cole

If you were wondering if art could be made that is both self-aware and sincere, experimental but not at the cost of being humanistic, here is your answer. [22 January 2009]

Graphically Speaking: I Saw You - Comics, Craigslist, and the Internet [12 July 2009]