Author Archive:

Comics and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin, the aura of comics, and fandom.

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Weirdness and Conscience in the Work of Craig Norton

Is agitprop gallery art an oxymoron?

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Time Spent With An Invisible Book: Recent Work by Jeff Gabel

An erased gallery show based on an unsuccessful book

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Gallery Cartoonists

The gallery space as an alternative comics publishing format

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Sisyphean Lit: Duncan the Wonder Dog, by Adam Hines

Duncan the Wonder Dog is a fantasy about connection with non-humans and its accompanying moral clarity.

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Lyonel Feininger At the Edge of the World

Right now, Feininger is an apt candidate for resurrection.

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Supermelodrama

Melodrama in Craig Thompson’s Habibi — part of the ongoing roundtable on Orientalism.

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