Notes on the Midwestern School of Comics
The Comics Journal 300 carries a conversation between Kevin Huizenga and Art Spiegelman. During the course of the interview, Kevin brings up the idea of a Midwester school of cartooning, something that...
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Tim Talks Towers
Our own Tim talks In the Shadow of No Towers over at Comics Reporter. It’s a great read.
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Against Purity in Comics (and everywhere else)
A Comics Studies Reader, an anthology of comics criticism and scholarship edited by Kent Worcester and myself, has just won the 2009 Peter C. Rollins Book Award. The Award is given annually to the...
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I think that I can seriously say there are many different types of fiction out there, one of them is the heroic, and Art Spiegelman has no sympathy for the heroic, so I have no sympathy for Art...
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Jews and American Comics from Another Angle
A great deal of ink has been spilled in recent years on the subject of Jews and comics: Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Paul Buhle’s Jews and American Comics, along with many...
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Speaking of Spiegelman
Adorno: theorist of art and atrocity. Since Art Spiegelman’s name has come up lately in Comics Comics, I wanted to point readers to my recent Walrus piece on “the Holocaust novel.” The essay covers a...
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Interviews and Autodidacts Notebook
Gil Kane, an artist whose interviews are always worth reading.A notebook on comics interviews and autodidacts: Autodidacts. I often think William Blake is the prototype for many modern cartoonists....
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Comedy Minus Time
“The overwhelming part about tragedy is the element of hopelessness, of inevitability.” —J.A. Cuddon, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms In his 1987 essay “What’s so Funny about the Comics?”...
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The Mark You Make Is The Mark You See
When I was in high school (10th grade?) I saw Masters of Comic Book Art. It was a videotape collection of interviews with Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Steve Ditko, Neal Adams, Berni...
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Aside From Wuthering Heights, What Have You Done For Us Lately, Emily?
Breakdowns Every time Art Spiegelman wins a public honour, a familiar cry can be heard among some comics critics. “Oh, no,” the lament goes, “why is Spiegelman winning praise again? He only has one...
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