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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 ...
#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 ...
#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 ...
#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.” ...