All PostsContent Topic: definitions
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Art Comics, Indie Comics
Over at the ever-amusing (and often confusing) Co-Mix site, Blaise Larmee offers a definitional post on “art comics.” His definitional statements are, “Art comics are rooted in an appreciation for American male-oriented genre comics,” “Art comics emphasize the surface and object-ness of the page,” and “Art comics creators are image-makers first, writers second.” He contrasts [...]
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Abstract Comics Follow-up
Over at The Comics Journal, Kent Worcester offers some commentary on the Abstract Comics discussion from the other week. I should clarify that the Trondheim piece in question (from La Nouvelle Pornographie) was not necessarily a candidate for the book (I have no idea). It is a book of its own published by L’Association. I’d [...]
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Wordless Novels and At a Crossroads
The number of comics in the “to blog” pile in my office is a little overwhelming. Some are slated for longer appreciations, but many, I suspect would benefit just as well from a quicker look at the highlights or just whatever caught my interest in the work. Or maybe, as happened in this case, a [...]
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Baetens, ethics, constraint
Baetens, Jan. “Free Writing, Constrained Writing: The Ideology of Form.” Poetics Today 18.1 (Spring 1997): 1-14. Jan Baetens is one of the editors/founders of the journal Formules: Revue des litteratures a contraintes, which I have collected a number of issues of, but only so far browsed through. Having now read this article by him, I [...]
