Asking the question “Why Comics Studies?” is like asking the question “Why Cinema, Television, Game, or Media Studies?”.
There’s a reason that when people wear DC Comics on their T-shirts, it’s not the characters but symbols on their shirt. That’s because the DC Comics characters represent […]
While the “graphic novel” offers the opportunity for artistic endeavors, superhero comics are still immature. The schism is a cultural quirk, but an important truth. Even as the […]
When you draw, you can always capture that moment. You can always have that exact, precise moment when someone’s got the club raised, when someone’s going down. I […]
Once symbols stop resembling objects, comics lose the ability to offer pictorial diegesis thru extrapolating the physicality of the world.
You have control over what you are creating right now, and if what you create is honest, it will be compelling.
I sit down to work, and when I stop, I realize all this time has passed. You’re obviously dealing with some kind of mystical state. I don’t know […]
Marvel is trying to interweave some of their key characters into an internally consistent world, whereas DC is comfortable allowing each of their characters to stand alone, and […]
Shakespeare was interested in the lives of the medieval royal families, but he also raided the Roman myths and the Greek myths for the same purpose. And I […]
I can’t believe the weird ways comics and cartoon characters and comics art make their way into popular media. It’s never about the art.
In comics, a period of time is a “thing”, a gem of temporality – layering new ideas over old “things” simulates memory, its refractory power.
Over the years I’ve become less comfortable portraying emotion. I like austerity. I like it when I read other people’s works, other people’s films and there’s this austere […]
Hunger. I was very hungry in 1934. So I created Li’l Abner. It became big business and I became overweight. Since then my motivation has been greed.
Comics are still a vibrant entertainment genre. Whether newspapers remain vibrant as a delivery method is a whole different question.
The older generation of cartoonists thought of themselves as entertainers who were paid to sell newspapers. The generation that came of age in the 1980s described themselves more […]