Category Archives: Comics

Alan Moore on Writing

Posted on 05/17/2013 by
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Frank Castle on Fighting

Posted on 05/13/2013 by

Fighting for the people who run the world gets you stabbed in the back. You fight the wars they start and feed. You kill the monsters they create. You die from handling depleted uranium while they get rich on oil. … Continue reading →

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Todd McFarlane’s 1992 Comics Journal Interview

Posted on 05/09/2013 by

The fairly infamous Gary Groth interview with Todd McFarlane is up at The Comics Journal and it is glorious. Groth pins McFarlane to the wall on taste, culture, and the fact that McFarlane was an amazing force of mediocrity in the … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden on V For Vendetta and Guy Fawkes Masks

Posted on 04/03/2013 by

It is a curious combination of images, histories, politics and symbols—a Catholic revolutionary, executed for treason, a peculiar heritage in British popular commemoration, a right-wing blog site, a graphic novel, a Hollywood film disowned by the graphic novel’s writer, a … Continue reading →

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On The Manhattan Projects 1-10

Posted on 03/29/2013 by

Jonathan Hickman decided to create a comic book that told the secret history of science in the United States. The Manhattan Projects tells this story, but with an injection of fiction. I don’t mean “it is fictionalized,” because obviously it is, but … Continue reading →

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Post-American Elf American Elf

Posted on 03/28/2013 by

James Kochalka posted a new American Elf strip the other day. As you may know, American Elf was Kochalka’s more-than-decade long daily comic book diary. He ended it when 2012 went out the door, and has now been working on other things (a graphic … Continue reading →

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Some Preliminary Thoughts on Spawn

Posted on 03/21/2013 by

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to read the first fifty issues of Todd McFarlane’s Image series Spawn. You might be familiar with the material through its strange saturation into American culture via action figures, anime, … Continue reading →

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On The 3 Snake Leaves

Posted on 03/18/2013 by

Emily Carroll is probably my favorite working comics author right now (only surpassing James Kochalka because American Elf is over and I have no interest in J.K.’s other work). His Face All Red is the pinnacle of horror comics, and Margot’s Room absolutely destroys me in … Continue reading →

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An Update on the Blog and a Great Comic Book Moment

Posted on 03/15/2013 by

As you may know if you follow me on Twitter, I finished a journal submission today and so I am pretty beat (this has been the reason there is less ‘original writing’ going on here at the blog over the … Continue reading →

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Slipping Moorings

Posted on 02/06/2013 by

Some panel from Heavy Metal that I didn’t track very well.

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