The following article on Miguelanxo Prado’s Streak of Chalk was written about 15 years ago soon after the release of its English translation. It has never been published and I assumed the manuscript had been lost up till a few months back when I discovered it in a stack of old ring folders. While Prado [...]
Fact 1: there are women working in the comics industry! Fact 2: no matter how successful these women are, Marvel will always refer to them as girls. Girl Comics #1 (of 3) Girl Comics is the latest anthology mini-series published by Marvel. The last one, Strange Tales, was a collection of short stories produced by [...]
Song of the Hanging Sky, volume 1 by Toriko Gin Note: This review contains spoilers for the whole manga. FYI. This is a strange but rather interesting manga. The story is about Jack, a doctor who was a soldier in a war, but now lives in a cabin in the snow with his trusty German [...]
I’ve been flipping through Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester’s Comics Studies Reader, and have been struck again by how much energy folks spend in trying to define comics, and at how pointless such efforts seem. In this volume, R.C. Harvey’s essay “How Comics Came to Be” is devoted to arguing that the heart of comics [...]
On HU This week we finished up our copyright roundtable. Richard Cook reviewed Nola, a piece of Katrinasploitation. Suat compared Hal Foster’s work on Tarzan and Prince Valiant. I published an interview with Best Music Writing series editor Daphne Carr. And this week’s download features lots of metal. Utilitarians Everywhere Suat is over at Robot [...]
Doom metal, black metal, a little death metal, and some tuba metal. I don’t know what the Japanese is. Maybe Bill can help? (Don’t know that he reads these posts, but it’s worth a shot.) 1. Dwarr — Lonely Space Traveler (Animals) 2. The Skaden —?????????? (You’ll Hope I Died) 3. Eikenskaden —Virgins Are Buried [...]
Dyspeptic Ouroboros is a new occasional series here on HU in which artists, critics, and other folks talk about the relationship between art and criticism. To kick things off, I’m publishing an interview I conducted with Daphne Carr. Carr is the series editor for the Best Music Writing series. She blogs at funboring.com, and her [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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