Monsters Eat Critics
My Back Pages
My ostensible reason for teaching serialization in the first place was that I felt an obligation to discuss the history of the floppy, but my students don’t care at all about that history. Continue reading
Night and Day: Notes on Building Stories
Building Stories? Take your time, and read it carefully. Continue reading
Devils and Machines: On Jonah Hex and All Star Western
This column fulfills a promise. Continue reading
The Ballad of Axe-Faced Anne: Comics, Criticism, Contexts
Horror, Robert Jauss’s horizon of expectations, the Skywald publishing line. Continue reading
Pluto and Doubling
In this column I’m looking for art in other genres, and I’ll begin with one of the most artistically accomplished genre comics of the last ten years, Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto (2003-2009). Continue reading
