#189 – OK, This “Looks” Bad, But…
This post features an Easter Egg–a hidden clue to its complete reading. We’re riding the edge of the wave here, but trying to think about the hidden aspects of collaboration; the visual verses the...
View Article#196 – Where’s Côte d’Ivoire Again? Abouet and Oubrerie’s Aya: Life in Yop City
As this month’s Graphixia topic has revealed, looking for comics outside the Western paradigm isn’t something that even scholars of the medium do very often, or at least not intentionally. When...
View Article#206 Mixing our Media: Secret Wars, Age Of Ultron and Contest of Champions
So I have to admit I’ve felt like I’ve been cheating on my favorite storytelling medium a bit. It’s not that I haven’t been reading my monthly comics – I haven’t slowed down at all in this area...
View Article#214 Coping With Being Human through Inhumanity
Inhumanity in comics was an early staple of the medium, right from Superman in Action #1 asking us to suspend our realities so as to admit a hero who could transgress the physical, mortal boundaries of...
View Article#222 The Simulacral 70s: Tripping With the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Writing about the 70s in comics is a little problematic as we get further and further away from the decade – two of the four central graphixians (myself included) weren’t even born yet, and for me it’s...
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