A Conversation About Comics
#110 Can Archie Comics Come of Age? Going Gay in Gay Old Riverdale
In 2010, Archie Comics made the decision to leap into the twenty-first century and include, gasp!, a gay character. His name is Kevin Keller, and it was a huge deal in Riverdale when he was introduced. ...
#109 Inspiration and Integration: Why Comics Can’t Come of Age
Comics seem to come of age every ten years or so as the art form responds to innovations from its practitioners. Some might point to the Golden Age of comics in the 1950s as a ...
#108 Coming of Age (or Not) in Mats Jonsson’s Hey Princess
Coming of age stories are as much about the zeitgeist and spirit of place as they are about the age of the focal character or memoirist. These narratives concern a person’s transition to adulthood at ...
#107 Austen Gets Graphic: Marvel’s Northanger Abbey
I’m not much of a comics reader, but I do love Jane Austen and have long been interested in adaptations of her work and her pop-cultural afterlife. So I was delighted when Peter gave me ...
#106 American Splendor: What’s In A Name?
My fellow Graphixians have focused mainly on adaptation into (or between) the medium of comics. For my first ‘proper’ post I will be looking at American Splendor as an example of a comics adaptation into film. ...
#105 1001 Nights of Snowfall: The Fairytale Reinvented
I too was pretty excited when I saw that the theme for my first ‘proper’ post on Graphixia was to be about Adaptation. I am a big fan of ‘cover versions’ whether musical, literary or ...
#104 Adapting Adaptations: First Publishing’s Classics Illustrated
I’ve always had a fondness for comic book adaptations, both of film and of literature – I find that there’s often a fuzzy line between media, particularly when they’re visual, and sometimes I enjoy the ...