Shaenon Garrity « The Hooded Utilitarian

September 18, 2012
By Shaenon Garrity
Anniversary of Hate, Article, Top Featured
23 comments

The Hooded Utilitarian Comics-Hating List of Love

Loving all comics, even the hateable ones.

They Die Falling Forward

Umezu’s protagonists are constantly overcome with shock, terror, and horror, but never with despair.

August 8, 2011
By Shaenon Garrity
Article, Best Comics Poll, Best Comics Poll Essays
93 comments

The HU Lady List

Women in the list of 115 best comics.

#6: <em>Little Nemo in Slumberland</em>, Winsor McCay

August 2, 2011
By Shaenon Garrity
Best Comics Poll, Best Comics Poll Top Ten
11 comments

#6: Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay spoke the saddest and greatest last words of any cartoonist.

Illustrated Wallace Stevens: The Emperor of Ice Cream

Text by Wallace Stevens; Art by Shaenon Garrity.

Phooey From Me to You: Six or Seven Things I Know about Popeye

1. Popeye is old. I don’t mean the strip is old. Everybody knows the strip is old. I mean Popeye himself is supposed to be a senior citizen. He’s a grizzled old sailor, with emphasis on the old, with extra old added on.

Selling Awesome Manga

As other people on this roundtable have pointed out, we’ve been using “arty manga” as a catchall term for a variety of niche manga with potential appeal to older readers: genuine alternative and underground manga (gekiga, the work of Junko Mizuno), offbeat manga similar in content to American indie comics (Viz’s SigIkki line, pretty much [...]