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Rubiah and Radioactive Forever
My latest Panels & Pictures column is up at Comixtalk. This month I discuss two nonfiction comics from the European site Electrocomics: Rubiah by Sacha Goerg, an autobiographical account of a stay in Indonesia, and Radioactive Forever, Kai Pfeiffer’s comics essay on Chernobyl.
(READ ON...)Mullins on The Aesthetics of Comics
Nick Mullins writes about David Carrier’s The Aesthetics of Comics. I have to say, I was excited by the prospect (aesthetics! comics!) of Carrier’s book until I started reading it. The whole aspect of word balloons being a defining aspect of comics discredited Carrier with me. I never did finish the book.
Tags: comicstheory
(READ ON...)Things Change is Two
Today is the second anniversary of my webcomic, Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic. You can click over and read the current episode, though if you haven’t been following you may want to start at the beginning of the whole series or maybe at the beginning of Book Three.
Tags: anniversary, webcomic
(READ ON...)Top Shelf 2.0
I’m finding the Top Shelf 2.0 reading experience quite frustrating. It’s like there’s a new story/strip every day, but continuations of those strips are almost non-existent. I can’t keep up with 20 comics at once! I have enjoyed Michael DeForge’s Cave Adventure, which is like a cross between Skibber Bee Bye and one of Mat [...]
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