There Is No Better Artist
How to, and how not to talk about art you do not enjoy, with examples from Vaughn Bod?, Jill Thompson, Marjane Satrapi, and Brian Michael Bendis.
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Fragile Mirrors and Smoking Things of Neverwhere…Enter The Gaiman Library
Is there no stopping the literary wonder that is Neil Gaiman? As his novels continue to be adapted in several forms, his back catalogue of past achievements would seem to indicate the answer is a resounding no.
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Learning Respect
Maybe you can’t learn to like a comic, but you can learn to appreciate a comic, a human being, a publisher, style or an audience. You can learn to acknowledge their impact, their influence, the hopefully positive effect they have on things you do love.
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Whither the Thunder God?
A long-ago issue of the Mighty Thor comic book was titled, “If the Thunder Be Gone…” Seeing the way he’s depicted today makes you wonder where the thunder went.
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The Comic Watchers Show E041: Absolute Carnage #1, Berserker Unbound #1 & a Tiger Tamer!
Join us for episode #41 of The Comic Watchers Show, where we discuss Absolute Carnage #1 and Beserker Unbound #1, plus so much more!
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Stephanie Brown Saved Me
An in-depth look at DC Comics superheroine, Stephanie Brown, from being Spoiler to being Robin to being Batgirl and back, featuring new interviews with Alisa Kwitney and Bryan Q Miller.
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Batman RIP: A Near Perfect Batman Comic
A seven-part serial novel, six chapters and a prologue, Batman RIP is a passion play without a betrayer, a death of… story that does not kill the protagonist, a mystery that ends unsolved. It attacks the core family, brutality, politics, economics, and assumptions of Batman, when Dr Thomas Wayne comes home.
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Guest Review: A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities
Join our guest contributor Adaire Salome-Keating for a look inside Oni Press’ “A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities”, on sale now.
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Stop Worrying How Fast It Reads
Do some comics not take long enough to read? Do we not take enough time, reading a comic? Gekiga Time and Cinematic Time. Saito Tamaki. Gilles Deleuze. Feauturing examples from The Jughead Jones, The Dark Knight Returns, Cinderella Knight, Uncanny X-Men, and the styles of Alex Ross, Matt Baker, Jack Kirby, and Takashima Hiromi.
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A Black Mermaid on Vacation
Are we ready for a black mermaid in our entertainment? We have been in the past. Let’s look at 1943’s The Mermaid in Central Park with Mary Marvel!
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Out of the Closet and Into the Wardrobe
Exploring the effects of clothes & costumes on our understanding of gender, sexuality, and identity, and how our gender, sexuality, and identity helps us to understand, idiosyncratically, clothing and costumes in comics. With special attention to fantastic proxies and to the straights, cis, trans, queers, and transvestites in comics, making comics, and reading comics.
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I Don’t Need Another Issue
Many comics fans need a new issue every month. Many comics fans love stats and rigid continuity. They want collections and canons. But, to love comics, do you have to crave new successive issues, memorize numbers, file everything, then get furious at writers who don’t marry characters the way you wanted? What is it to love comics outside of serialization, characters outside of their histories?
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