H.P. Moorecraft: On the Ending of Providence
The climax of the book is Alan Moore’s meta-meditation on the shape and nature of his comics career, written as he prepares to leave the medium.
Though TCJ rightly devotes attention to Ware, Brown, Sacco and other masters of contemporary alt-comix, there’s also much to learn from the horror, superhero, western, science fiction and war comics that compromise the majority of world comics. Join Craig Fischer as he explores the formal and ideological complexities of genre-based comics work
The climax of the book is Alan Moore’s meta-meditation on the shape and nature of his comics career, written as he prepares to leave the medium.
Craig Fischer on Moore’s mind-bending masterpiece.
An in-depth and at-length consideration of Matt Fraction, David Aja & company’s Hawkeye.
I can’t believe that I ever found Rabagliati’s art “simple.”
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.
Building Stories? Take your time, and read it carefully.
Horror, Robert Jauss’s horizon of expectations, the Skywald publishing line.
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).