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Y: The Last Man

#83 Stuff Scott Almost Talked About But Didn’t Re: Y: The Last Man

I am known for my catchy post titles, readers. In Scott’s post on Y, he talked about the self-consciously academic nature of the text.  It was an interesting post, but I think he missed one of ...

Sep, 05

#82 Representing the Margins: Deciphering Visual Clues in Y: The Last Man

The following is a Guest Post by Ashley Olien who has recently completed the Master of Liberal Studies Program at the University of Minnesota.  Her Master’s thesis, How GLBTQ Characters are Depicted in Contemporary Comic Book Fiction: ...

Aug, 28

#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 ...

Aug, 21

#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. ...

Aug, 14

#79 Iconicity, Caricature, and the Female Form in Y the Last Man and Locas

Every few months Graphixians meet to determine our themes and texts for the upcoming posts. While this thinking ahead produces stability and coherence, it also produces frustration, because we often find something other than the ...

Aug, 07

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