A Conversation About Comics
#117 Words and Pictures: Art and Competing Visualities in Comics
Referring to comics as “art” has long been problematic for a host of reasons – their mass production, their varied content and audience level, their lateness in arriving to the literary field and the canonical ...
#116 Sparse Art: Meditations on a Line-Drawn Life
My favourite comic artists these days: Simone Lia; Brian Lee O’Malley; Chester Brown; Jeff Lemire; Sarah Leavitt. In webcomics I love Kate Beaton; xkcd; Dinosaur Comics. These are the artists and authors of the books ...
#115 “Okay… this looks bad”: Hawkeye and The Problem with Comics as Art
What is art? It’s a question that loads everything we’ll be discussing in this space over the next five weeks or so. And, as with most questions with such a loaded pretence, it inevitably leads ...
#114 What Does It Mean to Draw a Picture of Something? Comics, Art and Warren Craghead
“In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick ...
#113 What Will It Take To Seduce You? – Coming of Age in Geneviève Castrée’s Susceptible
As the least Canadian member of the Graphixia crew (being neither a national nor studying there) I felt it was about time that I came of age by writing about a Canadian comic about coming ...
#112 Michel Rabagliati’s Paul à Québec – The Coming of Age of Quebec’s Everyman
Michel Rabagliati has become one of Quebec’s most famous and well-loved creators of bandes dessinées. Author of the semi-autobiographical Paul series, Rabagliati has created a character that has been dubbed both Quebec’s Everyman and the ...
#111 Comics Coming of Age, Again and Again
In my longstanding love of comics, I’ve collected books from across the variously defined “ages,” and each has its own particular and distinctive feel. The Golden Age, for example, was rife with morality, nationalism and ...