Author Archive:

Music or Comics, or, Making a Joyful Noise

Which should you devote yourself to, comics or music?

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Rape, Murder, and Artifice in Downton Abbey

Consuming nobility.

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The Collector

Hate the collection, not the collector.

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Collage Theatre, Copyright, and the Curious Case of Anne Frank Superstar

Who owns Anne Frank’s words? Why shouldn’t it be Karen Carpenter?

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The Art of Invisibility–the Gerhard interview

A lengthy interview with the background artist of Cerebus.

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Magicians and Architects

Sean disputes originality and craft with his grandmother.

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Semi-Memoir and Stylization in Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

Shigeru Mizuki provides an on-the-ground perspective on the inanity and ultimate inhumanity of war

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