Archive for: criticism

Best Online Comics Criticism 2012 – The Final List

Judges selections for best online comics criticism in 2012.

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Audio: Pauline Kael on the Auteur Theory

A reading of the great film critic’s classic rebuttal.

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Best Online Comics Criticism 2012 – 4th Quarter Nominations

The final list of nominations for our best comics criticism poll.

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Best Online Comics Criticism 2012 – 3rd Quarter Nominations

Hate is hard.

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Best Online Comics Criticism 2012 – 2nd Quarter Nominations

Will this quarter’s nominations be up to snuff?

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Best Online Comics Criticism 2012 – 1st Quarter Nominations

Send us your comics criticism nominations.

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Mistaking the Movies for the Trees

This essay first appeared on Splice Today. ____________________________ As a first time reader of Pauline Kael, I was surprised to discover that she’s boring as fuck. Okay, to be fair, she’s sometimes slightly less boring than that. Going Steady, her third volume from 1968 and the one which I happened to get my hands on, [...]

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