Writing
2019
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Archiving this blog
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Zoe, an obituary (???? - 2019)
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An article on Crepax
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Stars Without Number Session 2
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Stars Without Number Session 1
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Movies in May
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Witcher, Gundam, and Star Trek
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Ozu, Sekiro, LeGuin
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April starts with Locas
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Slow week, not much reading
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Spring is here reading
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More March Reading, Links, and Such
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Some March reading
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Rambling from February
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Complaining about a video game and a D&D review
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2013
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A torrent of writing about the comics on my desk 12/6 - 12/7
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My First SPX
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Every Comic I Read in 2013: August
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Every Comic I Read in 2013: July
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Every Comic I Read in 2013: June
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Every Comic I Read in 2013: May
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Every Comic I Read in 2013: April
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9th Bloggiversary
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Ga(ro/ps)
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Every Comic I Read in 2013: March
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Comics as "écriture": Balthazar Kaplan
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Every Comic I Read in 2013: February
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Every Comic I Read in 2013: January
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2012 in Review
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2012
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Best Comics I Read in 2012
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Post-BCGF
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Building Stories, first read
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(at The Hooded Utilitarian) "Dungeons & Nostalgia"
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Comics Poetry, Poetry Comics, Graphic Poems
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"Literary" Comics
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(at The Hooded Utilitarian) "A Peter that Never Existed"
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MoCCA 2012
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On Locas: La Maggie La Superhero
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Comics Books 2011
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2011
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Manga 2011
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Minicomics and Short Stories 2011
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Webcomics 2011
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Astral Talk edited by Aidan Koch
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BCGF 2011
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Best American Comics Notables 2011
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What makes a comic great?
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Quote: Comics as Collage
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One-Panel Criticism: King-Cat No. 65
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Writing about Colosse
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Top 10 Comics circa June 1 2011
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Essay on: Jaime Hernandez's Locas
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Favorites: "Psalm" by John Porcellino
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MMF: Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi
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Lone Pine by Jed McGowan
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Excess and the Everyday in Hanawa's Doing Time
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Fabrice Neaud on Stylistic Change
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MoCCA Festival 2011
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Interview with Austin English
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Anthology Round-Up
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Kozue Amano's Aria: Nostalgia etc
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Grey Supreme 1 by Mark Laliberte
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One-Page Criticism: Prince Valiant #199
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MMF: Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
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Deborah Turbeville: Past Imperfect
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Brickbrickbrick by Mark Laliberte
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Best Online Comics Criticism 2010: Derik's List
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One-Page by Blaise Larmee
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One Blueberry Panel
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Flesh and Bone by Julie Gfrorer
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2010
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Best Print Comics of 2010
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Best Webcomics of 2010
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The Whale by Aidan Koch
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Points de vue
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Enso and Haiga
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LitGraphic at the Michener Museum
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The Zabime Sisters by Aristophane
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Ozu Inspiration
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Alternative Comics Roundtable
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Translation of Neaud on Aristophane
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Talking Head
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A page from Cross Game
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Discussing Style
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International
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Technological Advances?
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Renoir on Plagiarism
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Trains are Mint 7
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Bordwell on Show and Tell
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Masereel's Leaps in Time
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Visit
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PACC Follow-up
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Mushishi 8-9-10
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Two Panels by Herge
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DC Trip, Museum Highlights
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Best American Comics Criticism?
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Talking, Thinking, and Seeing in Pictures: Narration, Focalization, and Ocularization in Comics Narratives
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from The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
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Garo Manga Exhibit
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David Markson RIP
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Asterios Polyp: Word balloons, colors, etc.
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La Bande Dessinee, Mode D'Emploi by Groensteen
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The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R Crumb
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Abstract Comics: The Discussion
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Proper Go Well High by Oliver East
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Friday by Jenni Rope
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Pascal Matthey’s Scenic Descriptions
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Haiku and Haiga
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My Best Comics of 2009
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2009
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Notes on Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
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Elements by G#ROM
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Driven By Lemons by Joshua Cotter
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Travel by Yuichi Yokoyama
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The Hot Breath of War by Alixopulos
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Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
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Masterpiece Comics by R Sikoryak
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Super Spy by Matt Kindt
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Suppli 1-3 by Mari Okazaki
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Yes and Hypnotizing by Aidan Koch
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Archaeology by James McShane
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Exploding Head Man by Jason Overby
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Aria v5 by Kozue Amano
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Tarzan: The Jesse Marsh Years
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A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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Map of My Heart by John Porcellino
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Lose 1 by Michael Deforge
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The First Transmission of the MCC
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Alex Toth Doodle Book
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Running Away by Toussaint
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The Complete Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty
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Le Tricheur by Ruppert and Mulot
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Rereading Hutch Owen
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Ending Asterios Polyp
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Kramer's Ergot 7 at du9
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Warmer and Little Flashes by Aidan Koch
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Translation: Poison River and the vertiginous ellipsis
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Reading Bande Dessinee by Ann Miller
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Comic Art: Characteristics and Potentialities of a Narrative Medium, Abbott (1986)
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Le Voyage by Baudoin
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Snowy Sees Double
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Petit Trait by Baladi
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Man of My Heart by Toth
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Oishinbo 1 and 2 by Kariya and Hanasaki
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Hoytiden by Rui Tenreiro
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Comics by Allan Haverholm
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Posts on Tezuka's Phoenix
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Phoenix Volume 10 and 11: Sun
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Butor on Detective Stories
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MoCCA 2009 Recap
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Phoenix 9: Strange Beings
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Lone Wolf and Akira
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Phoenix 9: Life
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Phoenix 7 and 8: Civil War
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Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey
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Phoenix 6: Nostalgia
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Phoenix Volume 8: Robe of Feathers
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Phoenix Volume 5: Resurrection
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Phoenix Volume 4: Karma
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Phoenix Volume 3: Space
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Phoenix Volume 3: Yamato
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Phoenix Volume 2: Future
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Transformative Constraint in the Comics Classroom
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Phoenix Volume 1: Dawn
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The Structure of Tezuka's Phoenix
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Cold Heat: The Series 5-6 by Jones and Santoro
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08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
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Ordinary Victories 2 by Manu Larcenet
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Panel Madness Day Four: Rubber Blanket Issue 2 Page 38
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Dash Shaw Interview at du9
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Parille on Acme Novelty 19
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Hart on Drama vs Poetry
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More Mushishi
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Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara
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Metacriticism: Stolidly Gestural
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On Criticism by Noel Carroll
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Best Webcomics of 2008
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Best Comics of 2008
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2008
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Solipsist's Doodles by Jason Overby
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Santoro on Page Composition
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The Infinitesimal Novel
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Godek's Everyday
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Bourbon Island 1730 by Apollo and Trondheim
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A Block of Panels in Solanin
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Branigan on Point of View
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Kinetic Krigstein
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Love and Rockets: New Stories
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The Marvellous Everyday
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Anchorage and Relay
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Craghead is a poet
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Jessica by Jason Overby
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Text, image, layout, rhetoric
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Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
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Categorization in Analysis
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Comics Schemata
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An Autumn Afternoon
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Two Peanuts Anomalies
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Pleasures of the Comics
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Quotidian mystery
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Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
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"My" poems
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Freedom within Boundaries - Presentation
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Helen Lundeberg
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3 Appreciations of Frank Santoro – 3
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3 Appreciations of Frank Santoro – 2
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150 panels of Concrete
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3 Appreciations of Frank Santoro - 1
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Time Overlapping
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Cave and Jungle
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Series and Repetition
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Breathtaking View
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Toussaint at the Quarterly Conversation
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Rereading Kawabata
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Spuk (Thesen gegen den Fruhling) by Niklaus Ruegg
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Love in the Western World
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Auden on Critics
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Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
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Rubiah and Radioactive Forever
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Metronome by Veronique Tanaka
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Write what you know or like
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Analytical criticism
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Wordless Novels and At a Crossroads
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Thought Balloon Ellipses
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Experimentation and Pretension
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Morgan on Single Panels
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Morgan on Description in Comics
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Pratt drawrite
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Trains Are Mint by Oliver East
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Panter image
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Dichotomies of Life/Art
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The Lady's Murder
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The Essay
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Stephen Frug on Graphic Novels and Length
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Dash Shaw on stories and worlds
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Felix Vallotton in High Contrast
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Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino
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Cold Heat Specials
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Making Meaning Notes
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Arriola draws music
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Maggots by Brian Chippendale
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Drawrite
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Flaubert on Conclusions
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Bordwell on Criticism
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Attention Grabbing
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Panels & Pictures: Text
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Fields and Diagrams
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H2 by Mitsuru Adachi
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Pettibon Abstract Comic
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More on Definitions
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Invisible Style
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Satchel Paige by Sturm and Tommaso
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Robbe-Grillet on plot and surrealism
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Rohmer's Style
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Quotes on Noir
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Gary Gygax RIP
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The Golem's Mighty Swing
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Reviews v Criticism
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Cotton Woods by Ray Gotto
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Image Text Interaction Coffee
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Panels & Pictures: Definition
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Godard and constructive editing
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Floating Weeds
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Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
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Panels & Pictures: Close Reading Krigstein
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First Peanuts Sunday
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Best Comics Criticism of 2007
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Film Reviewing Film Criticism
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Gasoline Alley
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2007
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Best Comics of 2007
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Poetry as Unity
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Marsh Composition and Color
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Milch on Fiction
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Blanchot on the Everyday
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Lefebvre on the Everyday
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Aborted Groensteen Review
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Butor on Flaubert
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Trains Are Mint
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White Rapids by Pascal Blanchet
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Aqua 1 by Kozue Amano
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Throbbing Pulse
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Favorite Peanuts Strip
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Exit by Nabiel Kanan
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Page Flow in Andromeda
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The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier
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Panels & Pictures: List
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Kundera on Theme Words
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Music in Comics
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All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna
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Long Form Serialization
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Gray Horses by Hope Larson
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Papercutter 2 and 4
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The Last Novel by David Markson
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Yukiko's Spinach by Boilet
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Ordering Strips
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Nonplot-Based Narrative Ordering
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American Elf Volume 2
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David Markson: A Bibliography
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David Markson: An Introduction
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Writing about Margins
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Anders Nilsen in Mome
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Panels & Pictures: One Page
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Themerson Review at TQC
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The Hero's Life and Death Triumphant
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Panels & Pictures: One Panel
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Top 10 Works of Fiction
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Salmon Doubts
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2006
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Saul Steinberg
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My Best of 2006
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Ninja by Brian Chippendale
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Romance Without Tears
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Whoa Nellie
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Cold Heat 2
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The Mother's Mouth
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Mamet on Comics
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What's Wrong With This Post
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Making Comics
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Tintin and the Secret of Literature
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Panels: Herge's TV
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Les Bijoux Ravis
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Phoenix 7 and 8
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On Ghost of Hoppers
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Pierre Alechinsky
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The Mystery of the Sardine
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Bechdel on Everyday
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The Mezzanine
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Finder V8
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Two more Twombly
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Sound of the Mountain
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Morlac
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Mary Perkins On Stage
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Saikano
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Alpha Flight Pictureless
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CHRZ
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Promethea
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Archie Americana
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Cold Heat 1 by Jones and Santoro
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Storeyville by Santoro
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Craghead Schulz Tribute
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Complete Peanuts V5
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Le Combat Ordinaire T3
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Panels: L&R 16
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Incanto by Santoro
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Move to the City
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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A Strange Commonplace
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Alex Toth's Zorro
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Daredevil 26-81
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Dash Shaw's Symbolia
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Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North
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Guardians of the Kingdom
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Alcoholalia by Andrei Molotiu
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Bleu by Lewis Trondheim
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Fine Art and Comics
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Désoeuvré by Lewis Trondheim
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New Porcellino Micros
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Prince Valiant: An American Epic
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Lapinot et les Carottes de Patagonie
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Panels: Colan's Monochrome Bogie
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Daydreams and Nightmares
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Panels: Steranko's Psychedelic Silhouettes
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Marvel Romance Review
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Stars, Crosses & Stripes Review
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Panels: Krigstein's Multi-Panel
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The First Kingdom Vol 1
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Ganges 1 Review
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Dylan Horrock's Atlas 1 and 2
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Bouvard and Pecuchet Review
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Winsor McCay's Little Nemo
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Chimera Review
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Graphic Novels v. Novels
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King-Cat No. 66
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Times of Botchan Review
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Krigstein on Panels and Pages
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Surrealism and The Uncanny - Two Quotes
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The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger
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Six Hundred Seventy-Six Apparitions of Killoffer Review
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Masters of American Comics - Catalog
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Polly and Her Pals
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Ordinary Victories by Manu Larcenet
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Mary Fleener's Stylistic Dynamism
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Art of the Funnies and the Comic Book: Aesthetic Histories
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Briefly on: Panel Composition
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Blue by Kiriko Nananan
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King-Cat #65: Places by John Porcellino
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Maximum FF Review
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Best of 2005, It's Unavoidable
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2005
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Arf! The Life and Times of Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray
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Hicksville Review
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Teratoid Heights by Mat Brinkman
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Gemma Bovary at The Quarterly Conversation
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Mister O by Lewis Trondheim
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Louis Riel by Chester Brown
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One Hundred Demons Review
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Adventures of Tintin Review
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Satisfactory Comics 6
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Flash Gordon Review
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Prince Valiant 11 by Hal Foster
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99 Ways to Tell a Story Review
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Pictureless Comics
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Corto Maltese En Siberie
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The Walking Man
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Aria by Kozue Amano
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Different Ugliness Different Madness
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Best of Nancy
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The Art of the Possible by Kenneth Koch
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Quiet Country Cafe
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Swan Vol 1 by Ariyoshi Kyoko
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Best of Little Nemo
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Krazy Kat 1931 - 1932
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Nogegon by Schuiten and Schuiten
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Levels of Abstraction
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Systeme de la bande dessinee
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Two by Jason
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D+Q Showcase 3
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In Formosas Dire Straits by Milton Caniff
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NYC Trip, Art and Comics
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Case, Planche, Recit
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Never Ending Summer by Allison Cole
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Oupus 1
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Literary Graphic Novels?
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The Girlfriend Trilogy
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Bone: One Volume by Jeff Smith
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Or Else 1 by Kevin Huizenga
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Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
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Mathews Brooklyn Rail Interview
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Paul Metcalf Interview
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Doug Nufer Interview
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Genoa by Paul Metcalf
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Matt Madden Interview
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Exercises in Style
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Never Again by Doug Nufer
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Negativeland by Doug Nufer
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Going Down by David Markson
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TV as Fragmented Muse
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My Life in CIA by Harry Mathews
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Film Noir Reader
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Queneau Quotes on Novel Structure
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Sorrentino Conversation
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Postcard Narrative
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Kiss Me Deadly
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Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)
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Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau
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Quotes: Duchamp, Poe, Borges, James
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Agape Agape by William Gaddis
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Interview with Queneau
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Tom Harris and Stefan Themerson
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Trent's Last Case
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2004
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Corey on D&D and Writing
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New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel
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My Best of 2004
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Metal Machine Music
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A Fine Mess 2 by Matt Madden
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The Novel Encyclopedia
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Enstrangement, Metafiction, and Constraint
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Dave Sim’s Cerebus
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The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara
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"Little Casino" by Sorrentino
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My Paris by Gail Scott
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Eunoia by Christian Bok
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"Aberration of Starlight" by Sorrentino
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Duchamp's Letters
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"The Moon In Its Flight" by Sorrentino
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Mark Tansey
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La Television by Toussaint
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RabbitHead by Rebecca Dart
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Cerebus, Procedural Constraints
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"Crystal Vision" by Sorrentino
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"Under the Shadow" by Sorrentino
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The Book of Batchelors by Philip Terry
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Sorrentino Interview
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Harry Mathews Exhibit
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"Gold Fools" by Sorrentino
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Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta
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Mathews Quote
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99: The New Meaning by Walter Abish
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Quote: Hemingway
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Mathews on Translation
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Queneau in re Inspiration
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Quote: Calvino
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Roussel's Method
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Leiris on Roussel
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Quotes from Cigarettes
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Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
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Rohmer and Permutations
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Mathews Interview Quotes
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The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
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Quote: Originality
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