September « 2011 « The Hooded Utilitarian

September 30, 2011
By Stephanie Folse
Blog, Columns
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Elfquest Re-read: Issues 10 and 11

Today, cocoons, reunions, and tall dark handsome strangers!

September 29, 2011
By Anne Ishii
Blog
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Is the Bamboo Curtain More Treacherous Than the Glass Ceiling?

They say it’s over for animation in Japan. When we look for new hires only women respond, and I get the feeling that we’re done for.

September 28, 2011
By Robert Stanley Martin
Article
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Explaining the Joke

Great comics should do what this piece does: transform the image to create a resonance that is both wide and deep.

<i>Big Questions</i>: Our Father, Where Art Thou?

September 27, 2011
By Ng Suat Tong
Blog
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Big Questions: Our Father, Where Art Thou?

It is, perhaps, only in this collected edition that the inter-species relationships of Nilsen’s comic thicken and caramelize, only here that the pitched battles acquire any degree of emotional tension, only here that the scope of the entire work can be appreciated.

September 26, 2011
By Caro
Blog
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“Comics as a Spiritual Pursuit” versus “People Don’t Buy Comics” – Thoughts after SPX 2011

Is the audience of people currently reading the comics Internet really large enough to support, economically and artistically, the critical mass of cartoonists needed to keep art comics and cartooning vibrant and vital as an expressive medium? Or do we have to look for new, expanded audiences, who may never be “comics insiders”?