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Quotes by Douglas Wolk

That’s one frustrating thing about the top 100: how little of it is available to the public. There is only a single volume in print sampling George Herriman’s […]

Douglas Wolk

How can you tell that a graphic novel is going to be terrible? One very clear sign: if the name of the person who drew it does not […]

Douglas Wolk

The first page of a comic book is a compact between creators and readers.

Douglas Wolk

It’s not much of a secret that basically all new comics are out there in the ether in digital form within a day or two of hitting the […]

Douglas Wolk

Modernism came late to comics. Cartoonists are naturally stylistic chameleons, selecting and altering visual techniques to serve their subjects. But explicitly presenting style as content? That’s always trickier.

Douglas Wolk

I worked in a comic book store in the mid-’80s and loathed the customers who came up to the counter with their own plastic bags and acid-free cardboard […]

Douglas Wolk

New mainstream comics about anything other than superheroes aren’t entirely obsolete, but they’re definitely anomalies; if there are three war comics running at the same time, it’s like […]

Douglas Wolk

There is no way of getting around it: if you are going to look honestly at American comics, you are going to encounter superheroes. The spandex wall is […]

Douglas Wolk

Unsurprisingly, the maleness of comics culture has been self-perpetuating: if reading (or collecting) comics is understood as “something that guys do,” then the woman in the comics store […]

Douglas Wolk

One other benefit of immersion in comics culture is that it lets readers enjoy even bad comics.

Douglas Wolk

The world of comic book readers is an insular world, and it’s also an annoying male world. The archetypal comics store employee – think of The Simpsons‘ Comic […]

Douglas Wolk

The language of comics criticism is still young and scrawny – it’s so underdeveloped that there’s no good adjective that means “comics-ish”.

Douglas Wolk
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