Comics Articles: February 2008

Ultimately this series is representative of the potential hazards that can arise when one works in the comic book medium.

On one level, this is esoteric horror for esoteric tastes, but as a graphic novel, it’s not a good fit.

It was less like a car chase, more like a train wreck.

Produced in the early '50s, this predates even Eisner in claim to the ancestry of the modern graphic novel.

As good an introduction to the darkly loony world of manga as you'll find.

If Ware's skill as an artist is to find the never-ending manifestations of sorrow and melancholy, his failure as a writer is to find meaning or resolution within them.