Article Archive
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.
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.
“Success In Market Terms Justifies and Validates Anything, Replacing All Theories”
Streamlined comics reviews: Julia Wertz, Osamu Tezuka, Punisher, Iron Man, Hulk.
The Enigmatic Edward Sorel
One our greatest illustrators writes about his friend and colleague.
The Now of Glyn: An Interview with Glyn Dillon
More than a decade ago, Dillon bid farewell to the comics industry, giving up a burgeoning comics career for the chance to make films. Now he is back, this time with his first full-length graphic novel, The Nao of Brown.
Body Schemas
Building Stories is in a very primary sense a comic about women and the private lives they lead.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/24/12 – Limited Edition)
Several beautiful tributes to the silver screen, and as many promising comics as I can cram into a teeny-tiny space!
Shades of Gray: The Life and Death of the Oft-overlooked Master
Gray Morrow was the legend that should’ve been, one of those rare and amazing artist’s artists who slipped between the cracks of popularity in the comics industry, his work imbibed with the same magic that graced old Flash Gordon strips.
The Silent Sublime
What does silence teach us about the graphic medium, and the perception that we listen to comics as much as we engage in reading them?
The Toc Toc of “Nothing, Really”
Rather than encountering a disability that’s visually present but verbally absent, readers meet with very explicit mention of the protagonist’s body at various points in various texts:.
A Horse, A Horse, My Kingdom For A Horse, Please Make It A Horse That I Can Have Sex With
A look back at the Pogo Riot of 1952—plus a bunch of lousy comics.
“Sometimes, You Get Your Throat Cut While a Clown is Pulling Your Pants Down”: An Interview with Josh Simmons
Talking horror and narrative with the creator of The Furry Trap.
At the Still Point of the Turning World: Chris Ware’s Building Stories and the Search for Structure in the Contemporary City
More than simply an exercise in narrative innovation, Building Stories is a project obsessed with the lived experience of time.
Night and Day: Notes on Building Stories
Building Stories? Take your time, and read it carefully.
