MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

Most readers when they think of the way a narrative (novel, comic, tv show) is ordered will think about plot: what Brian Richardson, in his “Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses,” describes as “a teleological sequence of events linked by some principle of causation; that [...]

The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James. Coach House,1975. I wanted to give this book a serious review, but alas I can’t. For one thing, it’s already overdue from the library (from another library, so I can’t keep it forever), for another, I just couldn’t concentrate on it. I read it two times, and I’ve come to [...]

Or Else #1 by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly, 2004). Missed out on this the first time around, but after reading issue 2 I was excited to get this. The issue features a few short stories. The first and best one is “NST ’04″ which features Glenn Ganges and his wife/girlfriend Wendy. Huizenga does interesting [...]