Comics will demand next to nothing from some people even as it demands almost everything from others.
Unlike prose or film or theater, we read comics as a window to other comics, comics we may never see, comics that may or may not be out […]
At this point in my life I’d prefer to read the complete works of a defunct independent comics company from the 1980s than the fruits of the latest […]
Art comics has a tradition where not long ago its champions fell in love with the form when they had so little access to its history and lived […]
Being in comics long enough allows you special insight into large, dysfunctional groups of people, which is handy when you’re living in a hospital.
Comics is a secondary art form. It has undeniable appeal, but relative to that wave of positive feeling a small audience of people willing to buy, buy deep, […]
What do these [superhero] stories actually mean? I read all these Image comics about these apocalyptic confrontations and the nature of good and evil – are they saying […]
Nothing irks me as a sign that comic shops have calcified to their detriment as much as the fact that so many still seem to be specifically resistant […]
It’s not that comics don’t exist as items that are marketed; they do. But they also exist as a vehicle for ideas, for stories, and that almost never […]
I don’t think criticism from comics creators has any special quality that makes it any better or worse than criticism generally. One thing that might get underestimated is […]
We live in an increasingly literal world, where people don’t like movies because they think the actress is too ugly, rather than being able to see her as […]