Authorship
#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 ...
#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 ...
#97 The Scene
This post is about scenes. Comics are all about scenes. I also think they get us thinking about what actually makes up a scene. If a scene is, straight up, a space where any event, ...
#95 “Lest we Forget”: Affect in Translation in Tardi’s “C’etait la Guerre des Tranchees”
It’s international month at Graphixia, where we’re recognizing comics from outside of North America – highly appropriate, given that three of our number have just completed a whistlestop world tour bringing Canadian content abroad through ...
#91 Webcomics and Authorship: Problematic fun in “Garfield minus Garfield”
I have to admit, I’m not a big reader of webcomics – my interest has always centred on comics as material objects, collectible ephemera that I can organize alphabetically and numerically, hoarding in my custom ...
#81 Self-Consciously Academic: Brian K. Vaughan Pushing “Y: The Last Man”
The first issue of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s “Y the Last Man” came out at the time that I was at the peak of my comic collecting, and from the moment it was ...
#80 Of Pulp and Circumstance: The Forbidden Fruit of Y: The Last Man
The cover art of Y: The Last Man cultivates a paradox between the representation of morality–the sexual status quo, the politics of gender–and the representation of a world in which those morals have been subverted. ...