Ever since the release of “Watchmen,” I’ve seen a lot of people and critics continuously belittling the film. I come before you now to say: really? You’re saying […]
Comics have become icons of time past, collected “like the relics of saints” by men reaching for irretrievable boyhood.
Manga [in Japan] are utilized as a diversionary and escapist “play” that “works” to relieve everyday tensions and thereby replenish a person’s energy so that he or she […]
Strips and comic books are not true folk art. You can call them “folksy” perhaps, in the sense that the “folks” certainly do pass, every day, on their […]
RZA [rapper] explains the relationship between rappers and comic book characters in The Wu-Tang Manual, saying that growing up with a single parent in the projects, kids often […]
Comic books account for about 80 percent of all printed material in Mexico, considerably more than books and newspapers combined. Critics argue that the simplistic, sensationalistic, melodramatic style […]
A comic book artist has to tell the story with the right emphasis and yet as efficiently as possible, because you only have so many frames on a […]
The appeal of comics to children and adolescents is simple: comics are easy and fun to read; they have simple vocabularies, few pages, stock characters, heroes worth idolizing, […]
When I was 5, I was in a car with my dad and he mentioned that there was this Batman TV show in America about a man who […]
Truth Nº 1: Hotels just hate comic-book conventions. Kids and teenagers are too poor and too young to rent rooms and drink at the bar, so hotels don’t […]
As literature, most superhero books are bad, bad, bad. They are stuffed with verbal and visual clichés; their brief explorations of an individual’s psychology are shallow and often […]
The fact that the birth of comics is still a subject of discussion and disagreement shows just how retarded the study of the 9th art is.
I’m inclined to think of comics as a kind of temporal map, a way of substituting space for time, of mapping out a temporal progression in 2-D or […]
I wanted the violence to hurt – to actually have some consequence, I suppose that was just a reaction to comic books in general, super hero comic books. […]