Alternate History
#99 Vanishing Points: Perspective in Jason Lutes’ “Berlin: City of Stones”
A few months back at Graphixia when pondering over potential topics for consideration, Dave brought up an excellent suggestion in a text that I’d only heard about before in passing: Jason Lutes’ “Berlin,” which is ...
#85 Who’s Writing “Inside Woody Allen”?
The answer to the question in the title of this post is Stuart Hample, who wrote and illustrated the daily / weekly strip from 1976 to 1984. The premise was simple, take the persona of ...
#72 Seth and The Artifact / The Nostalgia
Canadian comic book practitioner Seth is well-known for his forays into false histories. His It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken was so spot on in its representation of the author’s search for a ...
#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 ...
#56 Alternate History and Monkeying with Memory: Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son
Superman comics are my kryptonite. See what I did there? Usually I don’t love Superman. He’s too perfect. It’s annoying. I like my superheroes flawed and fallible. But, I also like alternate histories, so I ...
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