Posts Tagged "Umberto Eco"
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#64 The Trauma of Obsolescence
Created to function as a commodity, something to be purchased, read, and thrown away, quickly replaced by the next issue, comics have always had an inferiority complex. Though the medium has gained traction in elite ...
#57 Between the Set-Up and the Punchline
Superhero comics remind us about things we’ve missed in a story or things we may not have context to understand through editorial interjections, or annotations. Those little boxes, usually at the bottom of a panel, ...
#36 Pornography and Comics
We’ve discussed the relationship between comics and mimesis, temporality, identity, continuity, and a whole slew of other categories. In fact, the basis for our continuing engagement with comic books is an underlying, preconceived, agreement that ...
#16 Louis Riel and The Optics of History
In a review of Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, the Globe and Mail argues that the book “is comics history in the making, and with it, history never looked so good.” How things ...
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