Abstract Comics: The Discussion
Craig Fischer here, which should tell you right away that this isn’t a typical Madinkbeard post, and that we owe you an explanation. At Christmastime, Derik and I began an e-mail discussion about Abstract Comics, 2009’s important anthology of (ahem) non-narrative, mostly non-figurative sequential art, with hopes of posting the results on one of our [...]
Proper Go Well High by Oliver East
I was going to write about Oliver East’s latest book Proper Go Well High (Blank Slate, 2009), but after looking through my previous posts on his work (on first discovering his work, having read some of the minicomics, and having read the first book and a preview of what would become this second book), I [...]
A Class and Criticism Links
The Spring semester has started, and I’m taking a class. Dr John Lent (publisher of the International Journal of Comic Art and author of numerous books and articles) was teaching a graduate course on comic art at my University, so I signed up. Why do you care, dear reader? Well, this class, and more specifically [...]
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