Writing

2013

1. Every Comic I Read in 2013: April
2. 9th Bloggiversary
3. Ga(ro/ps)
4. Every Comic I Read in 2013: March
5. Comics as "écriture": Balthazar Kaplan
6. Every Comic I Read in 2013: February
7. Every Comic I Read in 2013: January
8. 2012 in Review

2012

1. Best Comics I Read in 2012
2. Post-BCGF
3. Building Stories, first read
4. (at The Hooded Utilitarian) "Dungeons & Nostalgia"
5. Comics Poetry, Poetry Comics, Graphic Poems
6. "Literary" Comics
7. (at The Hooded Utilitarian) "A Peter that Never Existed"
8. MoCCA 2012
9. On Locas: La Maggie La Superhero
10. Comics Books 2011

2011

1. Manga 2011
2. Minicomics and Short Stories 2011
3. Webcomics 2011
4. Astral Talk edited by Aidan Koch
5. BCGF 2011
6. Best American Comics Notables 2011
7. What makes a comic great?
8. Quote: Comics as Collage
9. One-Panel Criticism: King-Cat No. 65
10. Writing about Colosse
11. Top 10 Comics circa June 1 2011
12. Essay on: Jaime Hernandez's Locas
13. Favorites: "Psalm" by John Porcellino
14. MMF: Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi
15. Lone Pine by Jed McGowan
16. Excess and the Everyday in Hanawa's Doing Time
17. Fabrice Neaud on Stylistic Change
18. MoCCA Festival 2011
19. Interview with Austin English
20. Anthology Round-Up
21. Kozue Amano's Aria: Nostalgia etc
22. Grey Supreme 1 by Mark Laliberte
23. One-Page Criticism: Prince Valiant #199
24. MMF: Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
25. Deborah Turbeville: Past Imperfect
26. Brickbrickbrick by Mark Laliberte
27. Best Online Comics Criticism 2010: Derik's List
28. One-Page by Blaise Larmee
29. One Blueberry Panel
30. Flesh and Bone by Julie Gfrorer

2010

1. Best Print Comics of 2010
2. Best Webcomics of 2010
3. The Whale by Aidan Koch
4. Points de vue
5. Enso and Haiga
6. LitGraphic at the Michener Museum
7. The Zabime Sisters by Aristophane
8. Ozu Inspiration
9. Alternative Comics Roundtable
10. Translation of Neaud on Aristophane
11. Talking Head
12. A page from Cross Game
13. Discussing Style
14. International
15. Technological Advances?
16. Renoir on Plagiarism
17. Trains are Mint 7
18. Bordwell on Show and Tell
19. Masereel's Leaps in Time
20. Philadelphia Museum of Art Visit
21. PACC Follow-up
22. Mushishi 8-9-10
23. Two Panels by Herge
24. DC Trip, Museum Highlights
25. Best American Comics Criticism?
26. Talking, Thinking, and Seeing in Pictures: Narration, Focalization, and Ocularization in Comics Narratives
27. from The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
28. Garo Manga Exhibit
29. David Markson RIP
30. Asterios Polyp: Word balloons, colors, etc.
31. La Bande Dessinee, Mode D'Emploi by Groensteen
32. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R Crumb
33. Abstract Comics: The Discussion
34. Proper Go Well High by Oliver East
35. Friday by Jenni Rope
36. Pascal Matthey’s Scenic Descriptions
37. Haiku and Haiga
38. My Best Comics of 2009

2009

1. Notes on Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
2. Elements by G#ROM
3. Driven By Lemons by Joshua Cotter
4. Travel by Yuichi Yokoyama
5. The Hot Breath of War by Alixopulos
6. Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
7. Masterpiece Comics by R Sikoryak
8. Super Spy by Matt Kindt
9. Suppli 1-3 by Mari Okazaki
10. Yes and Hypnotizing by Aidan Koch
11. Archaeology by James McShane
12. Exploding Head Man by Jason Overby
13. Aria v5 by Kozue Amano
14. Tarzan: The Jesse Marsh Years
15. A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
16. Map of My Heart by John Porcellino
17. Lose 1 by Michael Deforge
18. The First Transmission of the MCC
19. Alex Toth Doodle Book
20. Running Away by Toussaint
21. The Complete Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty
22. Le Tricheur by Ruppert and Mulot
23. Rereading Hutch Owen
24. Ending Asterios Polyp
25. Kramer's Ergot 7 at du9
26. Warmer and Little Flashes by Aidan Koch
27. Translation: Poison River and the vertiginous ellipsis
28. Reading Bande Dessinee by Ann Miller
29. Comic Art: Characteristics and Potentialities of a Narrative Medium, Abbott (1986)
30. Le Voyage by Baudoin
31. Snowy Sees Double
32. Petit Trait by Baladi
33. Man of My Heart by Toth
34. Oishinbo 1 and 2 by Kariya and Hanasaki
35. Hoytiden by Rui Tenreiro
36. Comics by Allan Haverholm
37. Posts on Tezuka's Phoenix
38. Phoenix Volume 10 and 11: Sun
39. Butor on Detective Stories
40. MoCCA 2009 Recap
41. Phoenix 9: Strange Beings
42. Lone Wolf and Akira
43. Phoenix 9: Life
44. Phoenix 7 and 8: Civil War
45. Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey
46. Phoenix 6: Nostalgia
47. Phoenix Volume 8: Robe of Feathers
48. Phoenix Volume 5: Resurrection
49. Phoenix Volume 4: Karma
50. Phoenix Volume 3: Space
51. Phoenix Volume 3: Yamato
52. Phoenix Volume 2: Future
53. Transformative Constraint in the Comics Classroom
54. Phoenix Volume 1: Dawn
55. The Structure of Tezuka's Phoenix
56. Cold Heat: The Series 5-6 by Jones and Santoro
57. 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
58. Ordinary Victories 2 by Manu Larcenet
59. Panel Madness Day Four: Rubber Blanket Issue 2 Page 38
60. Dash Shaw Interview at du9
61. Parille on Acme Novelty 19
62. Hart on Drama vs Poetry
63. More Mushishi
64. Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara
65. Metacriticism: Stolidly Gestural
66. On Criticism by Noel Carroll
67. Best Webcomics of 2008
68. Best Comics of 2008

2008

1. Solipsist's Doodles by Jason Overby
2. Santoro on Page Composition
3. The Infinitesimal Novel
4. Godek's Everyday
5. Bourbon Island 1730 by Apollo and Trondheim
6. A Block of Panels in Solanin
7. Branigan on Point of View
8. Kinetic Krigstein
9. Love and Rockets: New Stories
10. The Marvellous Everyday
11. Anchorage and Relay
12. Craghead is a poet
13. Jessica by Jason Overby
14. Text, image, layout, rhetoric
15. Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
16. Categorization in Analysis
17. Comics Schemata
18. An Autumn Afternoon
19. Two Peanuts Anomalies
20. Pleasures of the Comics
21. Quotidian mystery
22. Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
23. "My" poems
24. Freedom within Boundaries - Presentation
25. Helen Lundeberg
26. 3 Appreciations of Frank Santoro – 3
27. 3 Appreciations of Frank Santoro – 2
28. 150 panels of Concrete
29. 3 Appreciations of Frank Santoro - 1
30. Time Overlapping
31. Cave and Jungle
32. Series and Repetition
33. Breathtaking View
34. Toussaint at the Quarterly Conversation
35. Rereading Kawabata
36. Spuk (Thesen gegen den Fruhling) by Niklaus Ruegg
37. Love in the Western World
38. Auden on Critics
39. Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
40. Rubiah and Radioactive Forever
41. Metronome by Veronique Tanaka
42. Write what you know or like
43. Analytical criticism
44. Wordless Novels and At a Crossroads
45. Thought Balloon Ellipses
46. Experimentation and Pretension
47. Morgan on Single Panels
48. Morgan on Description in Comics
49. Pratt drawrite
50. Trains Are Mint by Oliver East
51. Panter image
52. Dichotomies of Life/Art
53. The Lady's Murder
54. The Essay
55. Stephen Frug on Graphic Novels and Length
56. Dash Shaw on stories and worlds
57. Felix Vallotton in High Contrast
58. Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino
59. Cold Heat Specials
60. Making Meaning Notes
61. Arriola draws music
62. Maggots by Brian Chippendale
63. Drawrite
64. Flaubert on Conclusions
65. Bordwell on Criticism
66. Attention Grabbing
67. Panels & Pictures: Text
68. Fields and Diagrams
69. H2 by Mitsuru Adachi
70. Pettibon Abstract Comic
71. More on Definitions
72. Invisible Style
73. Satchel Paige by Sturm and Tommaso
74. Robbe-Grillet on plot and surrealism
75. Rohmer's Style
76. Quotes on Noir
77. Gary Gygax RIP
78. The Golem's Mighty Swing
79. Reviews v Criticism
80. Cotton Woods by Ray Gotto
81. Image Text Interaction Coffee
82. Panels & Pictures: Definition
83. Godard and constructive editing
84. Floating Weeds
85. Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
86. Panels & Pictures: Close Reading Krigstein
87. First Peanuts Sunday
88. Best Comics Criticism of 2007
89. Film Reviewing Film Criticism
90. Gasoline Alley

2007

1. Best Comics of 2007
2. Poetry as Unity
3. Marsh Composition and Color
4. Milch on Fiction
5. Blanchot on the Everyday
6. Lefebvre on the Everyday
7. Aborted Groensteen Review
8. Butor on Flaubert
9. Trains Are Mint
10. White Rapids by Pascal Blanchet
11. Aqua 1 by Kozue Amano
12. Throbbing Pulse
13. Favorite Peanuts Strip
14. Exit by Nabiel Kanan
15. Page Flow in Andromeda
16. The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier
17. Panels & Pictures: List
18. Kundera on Theme Words
19. Music in Comics
20. All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna
21. Long Form Serialization
22. Gray Horses by Hope Larson
23. Papercutter 2 and 4
24. The Last Novel by David Markson
25. Yukiko's Spinach by Boilet
26. Ordering Strips
27. Nonplot-Based Narrative Ordering
28. American Elf Volume 2
29. David Markson: A Bibliography
30. David Markson: An Introduction
31. Writing about Margins
32. Anders Nilsen in Mome
33. Panels & Pictures: One Page
34. Themerson Review at TQC
35. The Hero's Life and Death Triumphant
36. Panels & Pictures: One Panel
37. Top 10 Works of Fiction
38. Salmon Doubts

2006

1. Saul Steinberg
2. My Best of 2006
3. Ninja by Brian Chippendale
4. Romance Without Tears
5. Whoa Nellie
6. Cold Heat 2
7. The Mother's Mouth
8. Mamet on Comics
9. What's Wrong With This Post
10. Making Comics
11. Tintin and the Secret of Literature
12. Panels: Herge's TV
13. Les Bijoux Ravis
14. Phoenix 7 and 8
15. On Ghost of Hoppers
16. Pierre Alechinsky
17. The Mystery of the Sardine
18. Bechdel on Everyday
19. The Mezzanine
20. Finder V8
21. Two more Twombly
22. Sound of the Mountain
23. Morlac
24. Mary Perkins On Stage
25. Saikano
26. Alpha Flight Pictureless
27. CHRZ
28. Promethea
29. Archie Americana
30. Cold Heat 1 by Jones and Santoro
31. Storeyville by Santoro
32. Craghead Schulz Tribute
33. Complete Peanuts V5
34. Le Combat Ordinaire T3
35. Panels: L&R 16
36. Incanto by Santoro
37. Move to the City
38. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
39. A Strange Commonplace
40. Alex Toth's Zorro
41. Daredevil 26-81
42. Dash Shaw's Symbolia
43. Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North
44. Guardians of the Kingdom
45. Alcoholalia by Andrei Molotiu
46. Bleu by Lewis Trondheim
47. Fine Art and Comics
48. Désoeuvré by Lewis Trondheim
49. New Porcellino Micros
50. Prince Valiant: An American Epic
51. Lapinot et les Carottes de Patagonie
52. Panels: Colan's Monochrome Bogie
53. Daydreams and Nightmares
54. Panels: Steranko's Psychedelic Silhouettes
55. Marvel Romance Review
56. Stars, Crosses & Stripes Review
57. Panels: Krigstein's Multi-Panel
58. The First Kingdom Vol 1
59. Ganges 1 Review
60. Dylan Horrock's Atlas 1 and 2
61. Bouvard and Pecuchet Review
62. Winsor McCay's Little Nemo
63. Chimera Review
64. Graphic Novels v. Novels
65. King-Cat No. 66
66. Times of Botchan Review
67. Krigstein on Panels and Pages
68. Surrealism and The Uncanny - Two Quotes
69. The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger
70. Six Hundred Seventy-Six Apparitions of Killoffer Review
71. Masters of American Comics - Catalog
72. Polly and Her Pals
73. Ordinary Victories by Manu Larcenet
74. Mary Fleener's Stylistic Dynamism
75. Art of the Funnies and the Comic Book: Aesthetic Histories
76. Briefly on: Panel Composition
77. Blue by Kiriko Nananan
78. King-Cat #65: Places by John Porcellino
79. Maximum FF Review
80. Best of 2005, It's Unavoidable

2005

1. Arf! The Life and Times of Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray
2. Hicksville Review
3. Teratoid Heights by Mat Brinkman
4. Gemma Bovary at The Quarterly Conversation
5. Mister O by Lewis Trondheim
6. Louis Riel by Chester Brown
7. One Hundred Demons Review
8. Adventures of Tintin Review
9. Satisfactory Comics 6
10. Flash Gordon Review
11. Prince Valiant 11 by Hal Foster
12. 99 Ways to Tell a Story Review
13. Pictureless Comics
14. Corto Maltese En Siberie
15. The Walking Man
16. Aria by Kozue Amano
17. Different Ugliness Different Madness
18. Best of Nancy
19. The Art of the Possible by Kenneth Koch
20. Quiet Country Cafe
21. Swan Vol 1 by Ariyoshi Kyoko
22. Best of Little Nemo
23. Krazy Kat 1931 - 1932
24. Nogegon by Schuiten and Schuiten
25. Levels of Abstraction
26. Systeme de la bande dessinee
27. Two by Jason
28. D+Q Showcase 3
29. In Formosas Dire Straits by Milton Caniff
30. NYC Trip, Art and Comics
31. Case, Planche, Recit
32. Never Ending Summer by Allison Cole
33. Oupus 1
34. Literary Graphic Novels?
35. The Girlfriend Trilogy
36. Bone: One Volume by Jeff Smith
37. Or Else 1 by Kevin Huizenga
38. Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
39. Mathews Brooklyn Rail Interview
40. Paul Metcalf Interview
41. Doug Nufer Interview
42. Genoa by Paul Metcalf
43. Matt Madden Interview
44. Exercises in Style
45. Never Again by Doug Nufer
46. Negativeland by Doug Nufer
47. Going Down by David Markson
48. TV as Fragmented Muse
49. My Life in CIA by Harry Mathews
50. Film Noir Reader
51. Queneau Quotes on Novel Structure
52. Sorrentino Conversation
53. Postcard Narrative
54. Kiss Me Deadly
55. Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)
56. Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau
57. Quotes: Duchamp, Poe, Borges, James
58. Agape Agape by William Gaddis
59. Interview with Queneau
60. Tom Harris and Stefan Themerson
61. Trent's Last Case

2004

1. Corey on D&D and Writing
2. New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel
3. My Best of 2004
4. Metal Machine Music
5. A Fine Mess 2 by Matt Madden
6. The Novel Encyclopedia
7. Enstrangement, Metafiction, and Constraint
8. Dave Sim’s Cerebus
9. The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara
10. "Little Casino" by Sorrentino
11. My Paris by Gail Scott
12. Eunoia by Christian Bok
13. "Aberration of Starlight" by Sorrentino
14. Duchamp's Letters
15. "The Moon In Its Flight" by Sorrentino
16. Mark Tansey
17. La Television by Toussaint
18. RabbitHead by Rebecca Dart
19. Cerebus, Procedural Constraints
20. "Crystal Vision" by Sorrentino
21. "Under the Shadow" by Sorrentino
22. The Book of Batchelors by Philip Terry
23. Sorrentino Interview
24. Harry Mathews Exhibit
25. "Gold Fools" by Sorrentino
26. Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta
27. Mathews Quote
28. 99: The New Meaning by Walter Abish
29. Quote: Hemingway
30. Mathews on Translation
31. Queneau in re Inspiration
32. Quote: Calvino
33. Roussel's Method
34. Leiris on Roussel
35. Quotes from Cigarettes
36. Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
37. Rohmer and Permutations
38. Mathews Interview Quotes
39. The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
40. Quote: Originality