Nostalgia
#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 ...
#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 ...
#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 ...
#73 Dispatches from Wales: The Beano, Nostalgia, and the Perpetuation of Comics Fans
It’s fitting that we’re doing nostalgia month while I’m teaching a field school in Wales, because in a lot of ways this return to the UK, my first since I was about 15, has been ...
#72 Seth and The Artifact / The Nostalgia
Canadian comic book practitioner Seth is well-known for his forays into false histories. His It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken was so spot on in its representation of the author’s search for a ...
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