Culture
#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 ...
#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 ...
#87 Who’s the Villain Here? “Avengers vs X-Men” and the Summer Blockbuster
As this is a free-for-all month at Graphixia, I wanted to turn to what I’m perceiving as a current trend in the big two publishers: the nature of villainy, in mainstream superhero comics, is changing ...
#70 Marketing Storytelling: Neil Gaiman Selling his “Sandman”
Neil Gaiman is one of those rare triple-threats of the publishing industry – he is an accomplished New York Times bestselling novelist, a successful author of children’s books as well as one of the most ...
#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.” ...