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Friday, November 20 2009
What We Talk About When We Talk About Supergirl’s ShortsSupergirl's summer costume change -- which included concealing shorts under her skirt as she flew about, kicking butt -- reveals a lot about our changing superheroes. (more Worlds in Panels) Tuesday, October 13 2009
Are Comics Like Reading with Training Wheels?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. (more Worlds in Panels) Friday, September 18 2009
Comic Re-ImaginingNot all comic book adaptations are created equal, especially not when comparing our own imaginings with what actually happens when books are moved from print to screen. (more Worlds in Panels) Wednesday, August 26 2009
G.I. Joe’s Future Hangs on the UnbalancedThe fate of 'The Rise of Cobra' (both the toys and the movie) might depend on something completely out of Hasbro’s control: nostalgia. (more Lowbrow Literati) Tuesday, August 11 2009
Comics, Art for the IdiosyncraticWith little pressure to conform to storytelling or visual norms, comics are rife with artists like Jason Shiga, who bends and splices genres, and whose aesthetic sense is readily identifiable as his own. (more Worlds in Panels) Thursday, July 9 2009
Barbara Thorson, Giant Killer, is Within Us AllWe needn’t substitute our daily fears with the supernatural to understand what it means to adopt different identities for different purposes and to feel both tied to and apart from others, but in Barbara’s case, it helps. (more Worlds in Panels) Tuesday, July 7 2009
Truth Against Truth: The Work of Adrian TomineTomine has a gift for capturing body language and facial expressions -- his characters often say more in a silent panel than most say with an entire word balloon. (more Lowbrow Literati) 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. (more Worlds in Panels) Thursday, May 14 2009
Meaningless Landscapes: G. Willow Wilson’s and M.K. Perker’s ‘air’Airports and airplanes are extreme manifestations of a placeless McWorld, and Jihad is a backward-looking form of resistance to that placelessness, but we need not be limited by those choices. (more Worlds in Panels) Friday, May 1 2009
Like Movies—with ButtonsLike Edwin S. Porter realizing that a series of shots was how you structured a film, games have to abandon the presumption that they need to obey a linear narrative or controlled message and just let the player loose. (more Moving Pixels) Thursday, March 26 2009
English-Only? Not Quite: Linguistic Difference in Jessica Abel’s La PerdidaThe interaction between cartoonist, language, and reader is unusually subtle and complex in Jessica Abel's La Perdida (more Worlds in Panels) Wednesday, February 25 2009
Getting Through Hard Times: Re-visiting Andi Watson’s Breakfast After NoonIn our sobering economy, Breakfast After Noon is more relevant than ever, as it addresses the psychic and emotional toll of unemployment. (more Worlds in Panels) Thursday, January 29 2009
Metabots and Deconstructicons: Transformers Goes PostmodernI am happy to report that after 25 years, the 'Transformers' franchise has finally gone postmodern… no thanks to 'Transformers Energon'. (more Lowbrow Literati) Thursday, January 15 2009
Convergence Culture: the Many Faces of HellboyDifferent media means different Hellboys. Mike Mignola's versus Guillermo del Toro's. (more Worlds in Panels) Tuesday, December 16 2008
Capturing the Abstract in the ConcreteWhat do the worlds contained within comics, within and between panels, tell us about the worlds in which we live out our lives? (more Worlds in Panels) Friday, November 21 2008
From a Fluid Culture to a Culture of Steam: Alan MooreFor all the self-serious Deep Thoughts and the sometimes unsettling material in DeZ Vylenz The Mindscape of Alan Moore, Moore can be a startlingly funny host. (more Lowbrow Literati) Monday, February 25 2008
Missing Places I’ve Never Been: A Love Letter to Alex RossThe appeal, the madness of Ross' painting is that it makes a scene involving a fight between spandex-clad do-gooders seem almost as important as Rockwell's depiction of the first step to end racial segregation. (more Lowbrow Literati) Wednesday, June 6 2007
Who Will Watch the Watchmen?To reduce Watchmen to just another superhero movie is to miss the point entirely, and one can't help but anticipate that the result will have all the cultural relevance of a supermarket paperback novelization of Citizen Kane. (more Lowbrow Literati)
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