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I Continue to be Grumpy: Don’t Do That Direct Adaptation From Comics To...
Animation and comics have long been related fields. Master cartoonist Winsor McCay is widely considered to be the father of animation, and many early instances of animation were directly based on...
View ArticleBest Online Comics Criticism 2012: Jacob’s List
Let me begin by saying that I don’t feel particularly qualified to judge what is the “best” online comics criticism. I’m an avid and lifelong reader of comics and, more recently, comics criticism, but...
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Shifting Stones: How Much Does Consistency Matter?
Despite the general dearth of Moebius works available in English, a scant few are available for purchase. I recently got my hands on a copy of Taboo 4, well known for containing the first English...
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The Lake of Fire
While reading the Comics Journal website a few months ago, I was referred by Joe McCulloch to the Ditko Public Service Package Kickstarter, and immediately contributed. I’d long been curious about...
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Taking some responsibility
There’s not a lot to be said about the game Dragon’s Crown that hasn’t been said already – it’s one of the most transparent litmus tests for ingroup sexism you could ask for. A single look at the...
View ArticleARE YOU BEING A CENSOR?
NOTE: Given the number of heated arguments about art that end in accusations of censorship and prudishness, I thought I would provide a public service: a brief investigation into how far a critic can...
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Leave Those Kids Alone: The Graphic Textbook, Reviewed. (UPDATED 3/14)
The index to the Indie Comics vs. Context roundtable is here. ____________ I was one of nine hundred and seventy-one backers of Reading With Pictures’ The Graphic Textbook Kickstarter campaign. I...
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Review: Real Rap by Benjamin Urkowitz
Real Rap 1-4 by Benjamin Urkowtiz Published by Oily Comics You can buy them here I first became aware of Benjamin Urkowitz’s Real Rap, published by Oily Comics, when I stumbled onto this art print of...
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Mining Bloom County
My first exposure to Berke Breathed’s sprawling Bloom County was, appropriately, through pop culture ephemera. My parents had an Opus plush toy which sat perpetually in their room, and my mother would...
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In the Wake of Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech Does Not Mean Freedom From Criticism
On Wednesday morning, the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo was attacked by three masked gunmen, armed with kalashnikovs, who stormed the building and killed ten of its staff and two police...
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