Scott McCloud

Columns

Are Comics Like Reading with Training Wheels?

By Shaun Huston

Reading a comic requires multiple forms of literacy and levels of interpretation. Every movement from word to image and back again so as to create a coherent, narrative whole engages the reader’s brain in distinct ways. [13 October 2009]

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Is the ‘New York Times’ Tracking Porn Sales Now?

By Shaun Huston

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. [2 June 2009]

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Capturing the Abstract in the Concrete

By Shaun Huston

What do the worlds contained within comics, within and between panels, tell us about the worlds in which we live out our lives? [16 December 2008]

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