Writer of the Patricia Highsmash column. Former editor of Along the Chaparral, Future Earth Magazine & Platte Valley Review. Author of Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies & There is Nothing Left to Say (On The Invisibles). Guest Presenter at Naropa University, University of California Riverside, and Harbin Institute. Former faculty, Shandong University. Director of short films, including low fruit.
Examination of the techniques, effects, and resonance of five pages from five different comics published in The Complete Wimmen’s Comix. The talent, skill & impact of Willy Mendes, Trina Robbins, Diane Noomin, Joey Epstein & more.
DetailsAll comics are comics. All makers of comics are real makers of real comics. Anyone who says different is selling something.
DetailsSex, race, politics and laughs in Corner Gas, a family show and one of the greatest sitcoms of all time.
DetailsHideaki Anno’s Rebuild of Evangelion is a quartet of movies remaking, retelling, and escaping the earlier Neon Genesis Evangelion tv show, movies, and franchise, by the same director and many of the same cast and crew. It is an artistic achievement that might just stop time. Or, it might just make some.
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: A 20-year retrospective on Grant Morrison’s New X-Men. Politically savvy, fashion-forward superhero soap opera examined by multiple angles. Every chapter of the book, every flower of this garden is available here. #NewXMen #XMenMonday
DetailsGrant Morrison’s New X-Men, Phil Jimenez’s Jean Grey, the fable of the rabbit in the moon, and my 2005 move to help my brain-injured mother. Lessons learned. Dramatic actions taken. Our examinations ended.
DetailsWhat does it mean to rewrite old scenes, to revisit old stories, to change characters and plots, to reuse old titles and dress characters in old clothes? A look at the past 20 years of X-Men & where they may go from here.
DetailsLove polygons, hypotrochoid psychology, stars under iron masks, perceptual truth. The reality of comfort objects, the Phoenix and Xorn as jouissance, the X-Men as the object of desire. From Slavoj Žižek to Igor Kordey, Luce Irigaray to Neal Adams, reaching.
DetailsWhy Magneto can’t be Xorn? Do we have to bring up Alan Moore to talk Grant Morrison? Why do some critics feel a fascist schoolboy is a tragic hero? How do Frank Miller, Chris Claremont, Kevin Smith affect our reading of Magneto’s downfall?
DetailsAn imperfect 1000 page comic, New X-Men by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez, Igor Kordey, HiFi, et al, stretches from the past to future even when read today. Self-referential, perpetually topical, entrenched in a mythic past.
DetailsWhat’s the use looking beyond the fictional narrative at metaphors and artist’s lives, other comics and real life? Can’t have a Grant Morrison New X-Men without Grant Morrison, or their father, or a Marvel Comics, or a comics industry.
DetailsBeast is gay as the next mutant. Rover loves Tom Skylark. EVA & Fantomex are queer. Angel is mixed race & bisexual. Exploring the highs and lows of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men in representing ethnic pride, out queerness, minority existence.
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