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Phantom Music

Hearing film scores as you read comics.

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New Yorker cartoonists recycle gag: no one notices, cares

Bottom-feeding, New Yorker style.

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Make It Bigger

Comics, galleries, and splash pages.

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City of Irony: Jason Lute’s Berlin Book One

Yet Lutes’ choice neglects, or even rejects, another freedom of comics– the ability to select what is represented.

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The Society of Saul Steinberg

The New Yorker pays tribute to a generic kind of legend.”

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It’s Comics Versus Art, (at least according to comics)

Comics emerges less as a victim of art than of its own, unintentional self-sabotaging, and its refusal to grow and celebrate itself on its own terms.

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What’s In the Wonder Box

Uninspired gimmickry in Chris Ware’s Building Stories

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