I don’t really believe in “inspiration” as such. It is more about concentration, observation, receptivity, patience and courage.
Some comics would be hard to read on a computer screen or an iPhone screen. I am a tried and true print guy, and I always think in […]
Webcomics have already eclipsed newspaper comics creatively, because of all the restraints put on newspaper comics. Basically, we have to pass the blue-haired-old-lady test. If our comic might […]
Modern comics are almost universally full-coloured in Britain and America, but for over a century black and white was the only real choice for most mass market publishers […]
Cartoonist Charles Schulz made us all feel less lonely, because he understood that the world was full of Charlie Browns.
I am convinced that in some way or other the democratic process will assert itself and crime comic books will go, and with them all they stand for […]
Perhaps the disconnect between the categories of “comics” and “graphic novels” arises from our unwillingness, as readers, to assign a book we love deeply to a category we […]
If a child is spending too much time with comic books, this is a not his basic problem, but rather is an indication, a clue, of an emotional […]
Comparing it to other mediums, comics combine my favorite aspect of film – visual storytelling – with the intimacy and personal vision of a novel. And you get […]
Comics, one could fairly argue, are a primarily spatial medium that has been, as a historical accident, serialized, leading to certain temporal effects.
The debate about the origins of superhero story lines would as likely lead us to 1920s-30s pulp magazines with crude Nietzchean undertones as to any internalized saga of […]