#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 ...
#108 Coming of Age (or Not) in Mats Jonsson’s Hey Princess
Coming of age stories are as much about the zeitgeist and spirit of place as they are about the age of the focal character or memoirist. These narratives concern a person’s transition to adulthood at ...
#101 Adapting the Wolf Man
I have ambivalent feelings about comics adaptations of works of literature. Freud says that while ambivalence involves feelings of love and hate, it really means hate. That is, whenever we say we are ambivalent about ...
#96 Human Geography: Oliver East’s Trains Are…Mint
One of my aims for my latest trip to the UK was to pick up a copy of Oliver East’s Trains Are…Mint, which came out in 2008. I thought I would pick it up from ...
#92 Graphixia World Tour 2012
Graphixia has come some distance since Peter and Dave began fooling around with a shared-writing project on Google Docs and Dropbox. We are approaching our 100th post and have no intention of slowing down. Over ...
#88 Not Safe for Work: The Joys of Oglaf
This month at Graphixia we are writing about webcomics. While concerns abound about the fate of the comics publishing industry, and newspapers fail daily, webcomics are slowly gaining ground as a possible destiny of the ...
#84 Eddie Campbell at the Crossroads
The universe had been trying to get me to look at some Eddie Campbell comics for some time now and has finally succeeded. A year or so ago, a friend and colleague gave me a ...