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#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 ...
#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 ...
#74 Synaesthesia and Nostalgia: Comics as Ephemera
As I anxiously await the birth of my first son (due in five days from the time of this writing), I can’t help but be immersed in a sense of nostalgia on a number of ...
#71 Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys and Nostalgia
Disclaimer: I am only part way through 20th Century Boys and my fragmentary comments on the series reflect this partial reading. Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys presents the fate of a group of young friends ...