Memoir
#120 Comics & The Multimodal World – An International Conference
With our partners at The Comics Grid, everyone at Graphixia is very excited to be hosting our first conference starting tomorrow. Scholars from around the globe will convene in Vancouver on Thursday 13th of June for ...
#119 The Hands of a Master: The Art of Jaime Hernandez
So, my plan to write about the connections between comics and fine art went out the window. I was going to talk about Picasso’s love of The Katzenjammer Kids, the links between Philip Guston, Robert ...
#116 Sparse Art: Meditations on a Line-Drawn Life
My favourite comic artists these days: Simone Lia; Brian Lee O’Malley; Chester Brown; Jeff Lemire; Sarah Leavitt. In webcomics I love Kate Beaton; xkcd; Dinosaur Comics. These are the artists and authors of the books ...
#113 What Will It Take To Seduce You? – Coming of Age in Geneviève Castrée’s Susceptible
As the least Canadian member of the Graphixia crew (being neither a national nor studying there) I felt it was about time that I came of age by writing about a Canadian comic about coming ...
#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 ...
#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 ...
#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 ...