RIP: Maurice Sendak (1928 – 2012)
#69 Back to the Future: September 11 in Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602
Continuing Neil Gaiman month here at Graphixia, I’m pretty excited to talk about Marvel 1602, an eight-issue series penned by Gaiman and published in 2003. It won both a 2005 Quill Award and 2003′s Worst ...
#68 Of Skulls and Authorship
The image of Dream emerging from his confinement through a vortex in which clouds give way to what look like stylized skulls in Episode I of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series is one that reminds us ...
#67 In the Land of Marvelous Dreams: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
In previous posts we have addressed the issues in comics of continuity, retconning, and the radical alternation of drawing and colouring styles to indicate different sorts of worlds. All of these issues illuminate the force ...
#66 Trauma in Kirkman’s “The Walking Dead”: Finding our Humanity in an Unlikely Place
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ...
#65 When Life Gives You Lemons, Destroy Everything Your Parents Hold Dear: Trauma and Naming in Marvel’s Runaways
So I really like young adult fiction, and I really like comics. And sometimes, a series pops up that allows me to blend my love of both. Marvel’s Runaways series, initially by Brian K. Vaughn but ...
#64 The Trauma of Obsolescence
Created to function as a commodity, something to be purchased, read, and thrown away, quickly replaced by the next issue, comics have always had an inferiority complex. Though the medium has gained traction in elite ...
#63 Visible and Hidden Trauma in Natsume Ono’s Not Simple
“It’s about this really unlucky guy who finally hits rock bottom and ends up getting killed in a case of mistaken identity…And here’s the thing. The man writing the story is gay, and he hangs ...