Comic books are what novels used to be – an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal – and if the highbrows are right, they’re a form perfectly suited […]
When I mentioned to a friend that I was working on an article about graphic novels, he said, hopefully, ”You mean porn?”.
The comic-book form until recently has been unable to shed a certain aura of pulpiness, cheesiness and semi-literacy. In fact, that is what a lot of cartoon artists […]