CanLit
#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 ...
#90 Canadian Identity in a Webcomic World: Hark, A Vagrant
Fellow Graphixian Peter and I have been thinking a lot about the space for Canadian identity in the world of comics as we put together our paper for Comics Forum 2012 on Scott Pilgrim. (I ...
#86 Nobody Likes Chester Brown Except Me (and You)
When I first arrived at Graphixia, it was to write about Chester Brown’s Louis Riel as a work of Canadian literature. (You can read that post here.) That was almost 70 Graphixia posts ago now, and I ...
#62 – Cerebus’ “Minds”: Dave Sim as God?
When I first recommended Dave Sim’s magnum opus Cerebus for a Graphixia theme, I have to admit that I had forgotten how unwieldy a tome the series was – I had first read it over ...
#61 Melmoth: The Wildean Pause in the Cerebus Narrative
I love Oscar Wilde. Of course, who doesn’t? Announcing an adoration for Wilde is about as controversial as declaring that sunshine is pleasant or cookies are delicious. Are there Oscar haters even out there? I ...
#59 Disorient/Reorient: Cerebus #20
I have to admit to knowing almost nothing about Cerebus, Dave Sim’s magnum opus of 300 issues. I have only heard vague rumblings of Sim’s genius and eccentricity. Scott assures me that the series becomes ...
#47 Really Awesome Art and Not Thinking Like an English Person
In the last six weeks or so I started a new blogging gig over at Book Riot, which is a new online book discussion community. I enjoy blogging for them, not least because sometimes people ...