Understanding Comics

For some reason, I also sometimes take Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics for granted. Shaun Huston, over at PopMatters writes up a great appreciation of the book. If you haven't read Understanding Comics yet, leap away from the computer and hunt down a copy ... Read More

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman

Thought Balloonists write up three questions about the art of Harvey Kurtzman. Read More

Speedball Reminiscences

The Doodlemeister himself, Jim Sizemore writes an interesting article on his early career and the Speedball Lettering Guide. Really fascinating stuff, highly recommended reading. Read More

Logicomix Review

Jim Holt at the New York Times writes up a fine review of Logicomix, written by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou and illustrated by Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna. The story proper opens on ... Read More

Deep Focus Tezuka

Craig Fischer over at Thought Balloonists writes up an interesting article on Osamu Tezuka's film influences following what sounds like an enjoyable read of Natsu Onoda Power's God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka ... Read More

Women In Comics Conference Round-up

I spent the day yesterday at the Women in Comics conference at the New Hall Art Collection in Cambridge. What follows is a brief skim through the notes I took during the sessions I sat in on. I couldn't make it to every session as there were parallel sessions, but I'm assured that they were ... Read More

Milton Glaser on Drawing While Drawing

What a great video, just superb. Thanks to everyone who tweeted this gem my way. Read More

& Perspectives">Possibilities & Perspectives

Get yourselves over to the Possibilities & Perspectives conference which is part of the proceedings at the Leeds Thought Bubble Festival. I'm doing a talk on teaching comics alongside people like Roger Sabin, Bryan Talbot and many more fine scholars. & Perspectives">Read More

The state of comics studies

Thought Balloonists discusses the current climate in the world of comics studies. This is a really thorough article, and has some really well-informed comments. I'm a fan myself, and expect always to be one. But academics have professional needs and priorities that are peculiar ... Read More

Translation: Poison River and the vertiginous ellipsis

Derik Badman takes apart translates an article originally written in French in which David Turgeon takes apart Gilbert Hernandez's Poison River and sees what makes it tick for French site du9.org. The density of narration, the abundance of situations in a limited space, and ... Read More