Archive for: Dyspeptic Ouroborus

Dyspeptic Oroborous: The Divine Hobby

TCJ hearts Jaime Hernandez.

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Dyspeptic Oroborous: Reacting To It

Do we need to think about Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s attitudes towards sex when reading Lost Girls? Is it important to think about Ditko’s objectivism when evaluating Ditko?

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Short Thought for the Day: What Art Will Last?

“When the critic has no delicacy, he judges without any distinction, and is only affected by the grosser and more palpable qualities of the object: The finer touches pass unnoticed and disregarded. Where he is not aided by practice, his verdict is attended with confusion and hesitation. Where no comparison has been employed, the most [...]

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DWYCK: Critiquing a Lively Art

High art, low art, critics and Popeye.

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Reviewing the Reviews: Bottomless Belly Button

While corresponding with a prominent comics blogger recently, our discussion drifted towards the imminent release of The Best American Comics Criticism of the 21st Century. He made the suggestion that it might become “a yearly thing, in the style of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American series, tracking the 21st century as it moves forward”. Now I [...]

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