Features
Thursday, September 17 2009
Abstract Comics
If nothing else, it seems that Abstract Comics makes explicit that the line between comics and high art is beginning to disappear.
Monday, August 24 2009
The Boy Who Would Be The Beast of the Apocalpyse: Mike Mignola's Hellboy, Mythology, and the Human
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.
Wednesday, July 22 2009
I Saw You: Comics, the Internet, and Everyday Life
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.
Reviews
Thursday, December 17 2009
xkcd: Volume 0
Randall Munroe’s web-comic xkcd does a surprisingly good job of being equally hilarious and accessible, both despite its form and content.
Tuesday, December 8 2009
Hot Potatoe
Bell seems to be part of a growing trend of individuals who exist within the overlap of the art world and comics scene Venn diagram, a space whose very existence contests the necessity of the line in the first place.
Tuesday, October 27 2009
Stitches
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.
Tuesday, October 13 2009
West Coast Blues
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.
Thursday, September 10 2009
Galactic Zoo Dossier #8
Underground music and comics, while both inspiring each other, too, inspire a lot of similar fan behavior as Galactic Zoo Dossier demonstrates.
