Now We Know The Price Tag On Your Esteem
The opinions you’ve been waiting for on Lucas, brainwashing, and Marc Silvestri.
The opinions you’ve been waiting for on Lucas, brainwashing, and Marc Silvestri.
An interview with the author of Understanding Monster and Capacity.
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.
If you’re not reading this, the Comics Journal has finally been washed out of your hair. This is what happens when you entrust the East Coast with anything.
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.
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.
Streamlined comics reviews: Julia Wertz, Osamu Tezuka, Punisher, Iron Man, Hulk.
One our greatest illustrators writes about his friend and colleague.
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.
Building Stories is in a very primary sense a comic about women and the private lives they lead.
Several beautiful tributes to the silver screen, and as many promising comics as I can cram into a teeny-tiny space!
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.
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?
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 look back at the Pogo Riot of 1952—plus a bunch of lousy comics.