Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
As a designer of the page – and the design of the page is key to the comic-book aesthetic – Spiegelman is asleep at the wheel.
Pretentious is pretty much Art Spiegelman’s M.O. His work is about giving comic books some high culture airs. And at a time when most intellectuals are embarrassed to […]
(…) in the catalogue of Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix, the retrospective now at the Jewish Museum in New York, Robert Storr, who used to be a curator at the […]
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 […]
Female comics creators face challenges like… pigeonholing, harassment and an old boys’ network which sees that the same folks get hired again and again to draw the same […]
Batman did pretty well, so I sat down with the head of DC Comics. I really wanted to do Kamandi [The Last Boy on Earth], this Jack Kirby […]
There is nothing a man has to offer a woman professionally that can’t be discussed in a public place. Nothing. If he leads you to believe that you […]
When I was growing up, the predominant genre in comics was superheroes, and superheroes are all about dual identities. It’s all about a character negotiating between two different […]
There are two markets for comic books. There’s the market for gold-plated issues with megawatt cultural significance, which sell for hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars. […]