I like the books very much, and admire Hergé’s work, but having never seen a Tintin volume until I was a teenager, I have no visceral pop culture […]
My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space, and communicate information.
It’s a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history of the medium – arising out […]
I worked in a comic book store in the mid-’80s and loathed the customers who came up to the counter with their own plastic bags and acid-free cardboard […]
New mainstream comics about anything other than superheroes aren’t entirely obsolete, but they’re definitely anomalies; if there are three war comics running at the same time, it’s like […]
There is no reason why bigger letters would mean that a voice is louder though it has certainly become convention in comics.
There is no way of getting around it: if you are going to look honestly at American comics, you are going to encounter superheroes. The spandex wall is […]
Unsurprisingly, the maleness of comics culture has been self-perpetuating: if reading (or collecting) comics is understood as “something that guys do,” then the woman in the comics store […]
The world of comic book readers is an insular world, and it’s also an annoying male world. The archetypal comics store employee – think of The Simpsons‘ Comic […]
The language of comics criticism is still young and scrawny – it’s so underdeveloped that there’s no good adjective that means “comics-ish”.
I was always interested in comics because of the possibility of communicating with people who didn’t speak the same language, and just using images as language in general.
I’m interested in comics. Sometimes I’m interested in making them, sometimes I’m interested in looking at them, sometimes I’m interested in thinking about and writing what it is […]