A Parisian friend showed me some graphic novels from his shelf. Here were some very sophisticated themes being dealt with and the art was terrific, much less raw […]
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 […]
If you’re going to create a theory about comics, base it on the properties found by analyzing actual comics instead of pure theorizing.
Be ready for the long haul. Make sure you’re doing it for fun, because only a few people get to do this successfully for money. It’s just the […]
It’s interesting how people have gravitated toward this awful grind of doing a daily strip. I can’t think of anything worse.
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 […]
People who treat the DC/Marvel rivalry like a titanic clash of good vs. evil, webcomics triumphalism, manga triumphalism, superheroes as modern myths, and “the New Mainstream” can all […]
Drawing a comic book is a peculiar craft. Doing a good job at it means tackling a number of problems that you might not find in other media.
Comics drawn in slavish imitation of photography are almost as bad as those awful fumettis occasionally produced, despite all good sense, in Europe, those pasted-up things that are […]
DC is trying to be the comic arm of the Tea Party and those who want to keep this country divided along racial lines. With the stories of […]
Tintin certainly has evolved since the days of his politically incorrect misadventures, and so too has America. Perhaps in the brave new world of Barack Obama there will […]