“How Can the Spaces Between the Pages Be as Meaningful as the Pages?”: A Dash Shaw Interview
Jan 21, 2015Process talk with the creator of Cosplayers and Doctors. Continue reading
America’s Own Charlie Hebdo
Jan 12, 2015A U.S. legal antecedent to Charlie Hebdo. Continue reading
PABLO and Charlie
Jan 9, 2015A report from Paris in the aftermath Continue reading
In the First Circle of Hell with S. Clay Wilson
A visit with S. Clay Wilson and Lorraine Chamberlin and an update on the state of the artist’s health. Continue reading
Harvey Kurtzman Estate and Al Feldstein File to Regain Copyrights to 1950s Comics
The Journal has learned that legendary EC writer/editor Al Feldstein and the estate of Mad editor/cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman have filed notices to reclaim the copyrights on their work. Continue reading
Building Memories: Mine, Hers, and Ours
Our final installment in the Building Stories essays. Continue reading
The Theo Ellsworth Interview
An interview with the author of Understanding Monster and Capacity. Continue reading
The Diagram of a Life
I finished reading Building Stories about an hour ago, and I’m already late on my deadline. Building Stories is big. It takes time to absorb. Even unpacking all the materials from the box requires time and space that I should have been giving to other things. Continue reading
From Comics History to Personal Memory
In Building Stories the narrative past, present, and future come unglued from one another, reminding us that reading itself may also be an issue of memory, of what we recall and when we recall it.
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Formal Disruption and Narrative Progress in Building Stories
Ware’s Building Stories, his new graphic-novel-in-a-box, moves away from the narrative and formal coherence of Jimmy Corrigan, eschewing most of that work’s sense of historical context to focus on the process of individual story-making. Continue reading
The Enigmatic Edward Sorel
One our greatest illustrators writes about his friend and colleague. Continue reading
