Keira Lozeau- age 17 My first meeting as a high school teacher was almost five years ago to this date, mid-August, on a hot Washington afternoon. I was a new hire at a school district to the north of Seattle, and I was young at twenty five, still idealistic despite a rough student teacher [...]
I just wanted to let readers know that Suat, Caro and I are all contributing to a roundtable over at TCJ.com on the book Best American Comics Criticism edited by Ben Schwartz. Ben himself is also participating, as are Jeet Heer and Brian Doherty. I think the roundtable will be running for several days, so [...]
Makoto Tateno, Oakla Publishing and Digital Manga Publishing, 2010 I was having a bad day Friday, so I went to Borders, hoping to be soothed by the gentle and expensive caress of European fashion magazines. Which worked out, by the way – German Vogue has a rock theme! I skipped Italian Vogue’s questionable tribute to [...]
In Chronographie (another quasi-wordless book) they publish ten years of their more or less biweekly portraits of each other (Fossoul was seven years old when they began and Goblet was thirty one).
On HU We started off the week with Andrew Farago’s discussion of Popeye in multiple media. Matthias Wivel examined Breugel, Rembrandt, and Crumb’s Genesis. Ng Suat Tong discussed The Playwright by Daren White and Eddie Campbell. Caroline Small discussed Ivan Bilibin’s illustrations for Russian folktales. Robert Stanley Martin argued that Popeye shouldn’t be canonical. I [...]
We’ve been writing about R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis on and off here at HU for the past month. I think we’re finally done (hear that co-bloggers? Stop it!), but I thought it might be helpful to provide a convenient index of the roundtable. So here it is: ________________ The entire roundtable is here. Ng [...]
On Wisconsin Public Radio’s Here on Earth program — moderated by the able Jean Feraca — Gene Kannenberg and I chat about Tintin and field listeners’ calls; you can find a streaming of the show at this link. Enjoy my dulcet tones– or, rather, my robotic stammer. ——————————————— Some have chided me for overlooking the [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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