I plan to do a number of posts blogging my way through n Moto Hagio’s Drunken Dream, released recently by our kind hosts at Fantagraphics. I’m a fan of Hagio’s work…or of as much of it as I’ve seen. (See my review of AA’.) And I have great, great respect for translator and editor Matt [...]
Conception/ Sugarcane Island/The Cave of Time “What is time?” you ask. The oracle is silent for a moment, but then answers in a firm voice, “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” “When did time start?” you ask. “And when will it end?” “Would you like to see?” You gulp in amazement. “Sure.” [...]
In the two previous parts of this essay, we surveyed the intersection of comics and architecture in a one-sided way: showing how comics draw on architecture. But what do comics have to offer architecture in return? In conjunction with the Archi et BD exhibition reviewed in part 1, several architects were asked about their relationship [...]
I turn thirty this month, which means I’m officially an old fart. And like all old farts, I enjoy reminiscing about the past when everything, especially comics, were better. It’s time for some good, ole’ fashioned nostalgia. And since nostalgia tends to be infantile, why not look back at the comics being published during my [...]
When two specks in the distance start shooting at Ferdinand Bardamu on the first page of Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night, he quickly comes to the unshakable conclusion that it is all a big mistake. His only viable option is to get out of that situation as soon as possible. The colonel [...]
Hiro Madarame, 2010, BLU Pretty! Pretty, pretty, pretty! That is all. No, of course it isn’t. You didn’t believe that, did you? Really. There are a couple of multi-chapter stories in Scarlet, and they are – odd. I honestly don’t even know what I mean when I say a yaoi story is odd – I [...]
Submit to the Hooded Utilitarian! As regular readers have probably noticed, HU has been taking tentative steps away from group-blogness and towards kind-of-sort-of-magazineness. I don’t think we’ll ever abandon having a regular roster of bloggers, but I do hope to continue to get more guest writers. Which is where you come in. I would love [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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