The Enigma of Cecil Jensen, Part Two: Elmo Without Elmo
Dec 10, 2018The later years, when Elmo made way for Little Debbie. Continue reading
The Enigma of Cecil Jensen, Part One: The Road to Elmo
Dec 7, 2018An appreciation of the 1940s strip Elmo, which was both ahead of its time and behind the times—possessing the absurd cool of a Nathanael West or S. J. Perelman and droll ensemble comedy reminiscent of Thimble Theater. Continue reading
Sammy Stein on the Art/ifacts of the Real and the Virtual
Dec 6, 2018Stein is at the forefront of the new French Abstract Formalist Comics, using photography, sculpture, and printed works to explore ontology and epistemology of representational image, among other things. Continue reading
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief
Dec 11, 2018The story of Al Capp and Ham Fisher, two cartooning geniuses, their rise to celebrity and their furious interactions with each other, is the stuff of epic adventure fiction,
but here, it is fact. Continue reading
Welcome to the Strip Mine
Dec 3, 2018One of the great joys of comic book collecting is longbox surfing. You know what I mean, standing for hours sifting through filthy, disorganized boxes, carefully un-taping bags of one cheap floppy after another, scanning the credits, flipping the pages, … Continue reading
The Life and Dedication of Art Young: An Impassioned Cartoonist of Uncompromising Principle
Nov 26, 2018A look at one of the early masters of the medium, an artist devoted to principle at a time when cartoonists weren’t yet noted for doing much more than making funny faces. Continue reading
Comics of the WeakExtreme Boy Pizza Party
From the To Read stack, plus Abhay Khosla on DC WTF?! Continue reading
This Week in ComicsTHIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/6/13 – Sensual Planet Asylum)
France! Teach me to kiss, France! Continue reading
Monsters Eat CriticsMy 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
No One Knows You're A DogWebcomics Capsule Reviews #2
It’s that time again: time for me to read a bunch of webcomics at random and tell you what I think of them. Continue reading
This Week in ComicsTHIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/30/13 – The Face of Mainstream Comics)
A deep dive into digital manga pours out into an alternative newspaper reunion, and other things adrift. Continue reading
Comics of the WeakHe Was Said To Have Loved It When You Called Him Big Poppa
Image Comics: The Movie Continue reading
Say HelloHeather Benjamin!
There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where one of the bad guys tries to press Indy’s face against a conveyor belt that would pretty much sand off his skin. Your first glimpse of a Heather Benjamin drawing feels something like that. Continue reading
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