Narrative
#117 Words and Pictures: Art and Competing Visualities in Comics
Referring to comics as “art” has long been problematic for a host of reasons – their mass production, their varied content and audience level, their lateness in arriving to the literary field and the canonical ...
#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 ...
#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 ...
#85 Who’s Writing “Inside Woody Allen”?
The answer to the question in the title of this post is Stuart Hample, who wrote and illustrated the daily / weekly strip from 1976 to 1984. The premise was simple, take the persona of ...
#81 Self-Consciously Academic: Brian K. Vaughan Pushing “Y: The Last Man”
The first issue of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s “Y the Last Man” came out at the time that I was at the peak of my comic collecting, and from the moment it was ...
#80 Of Pulp and Circumstance: The Forbidden Fruit of Y: The Last Man
The cover art of Y: The Last Man cultivates a paradox between the representation of morality–the sexual status quo, the politics of gender–and the representation of a world in which those morals have been subverted. ...
#77 Report on Day 2 of the Third International Conference on Comics: Comics Rock!
As with my report on Day 1 of The Third International Conference on Comics: Comics Rock!, what follows is a discussion of the panels that I saw on Day 2 when the theme was Comics ...