Columns
Tuesday, September 6 2011
Show and Tell: On Words and Images in Comics
While there are prose books that use pictures for illustrative purposes, only in comics are stories actively told through both written words and drawn pictures.
Tuesday, June 8 2010
Freeze Frame: How Best to Capture Film in a Comic Book?
For both writers and artists working on adaptations of movies and TV shows, the challenge is to find a working space wherein one's own sensibilities can be effectively meshed with the look and feel of the original text and into a book that works for readers.
Tuesday, June 2 2009
Is the 'New York Times' Tracking Porn Sales Now?
That “comics” persists in connoting “pulp” and “graphic novels” implies something “literary” is purely a matter of convention, and is not because those are the inherent meanings or implications of the terms.
Tuesday, December 16 2008
Capturing the Abstract in the Concrete
What do the worlds contained within comics, within and between panels, tell us about the worlds in which we live out our lives?
Reviews
Monday, August 6 2007
Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
Wolk discusses each selection with a fan's enthusiasm and a critic's eye for detail.
