I disagree with so much in Suat’s recent post it’s difficult to know where to begin. But perhaps I’ll start here. The plot [of Potential in summary is simple: Ariel goes to high school, “discovers” that she is a lesbian, meets other girls and has occasional sex and alcohol.” Um…no, i’ts not. The plot of [...]
My first contact with the work of Ariel Schrag occurred almost ten years ago following the release of Potential from Slave Labor Graphics. My renewed interest in her work stems from my host’s, Noah Berlatsky’s, enthusiasm for her comics which he considers among the best produced this past decade. Noah is probably Schrag’s most articulate [...]
For a memoir about a lesbian coming of age, Likewise is absolutely full to bursting with penises. There are Schrodinger’s penises attached to various possible boys who may or may not be fucking Ariel’s not-nearly-gay-enough ex Sally. There’s a much touted artificial penis which Ariel purchases on her eighteenth birthday. There are daydream penises, which [...]
This week, HU is going to do a roundtable on Ariel Schrag’s Likewise. We’ll have guest posts by Jason Thompson, one of my favorite comics critics…and by Ariel Schrag herself, who has kindly agreed to weigh in at the end. So, in preparation for that, I thought I’d look at what’s been written about Likewise [...]
TCJ.com/fail Much of the blogging this week was devoted to sneering and snarking at our host, TCJ.com. I started things off by noting that, after two months, the site still sucks. Suat concurred, only moreso. In comments, former TCJ editor Robert Boyd also agreed. Bill Randall, somewhat despite himself, did a guest post offering tcj.com [...]
Since we’ve been talking a little on the blog about copyright law and fair use, I thought I’d post this old review from TCJ that somehow never got posted to the blog. _______________________ Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins Bound By Law? Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain B&W/ 74 pages [...]
In 2007, Jonathan Lethem published an extended essay in Harper’s on the nature of creative inspiration and the ways in which all creativity draws on a cultural wellspring of ideas and representations. Called “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism” it contains the following passage describing the “open source” culture behind the origins of the Muddy [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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