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The Therapeutic Narcissism of Alison Bechdel’s <i>Are You My Mother?</i>

The Therapeutic Narcissism of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?

Concerning the self-analysis of Alison Bechdel.

Jerusalem, Nothing Special

Jerusalem is the playground viewed absentmindedly for a moment through your house window, as innocuous as people dying on a television screen.

Old Wine in New Wineskins: Hisashi Sakaguchi’s <i>Ikkyu</i>

Old Wine in New Wineskins: Hisashi Sakaguchi’s Ikkyu

The manga biography of the crazy zen monk, Ikkyu.

April 2, 2012
By Ng Suat Tong
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Best Online Comics Criticism 2012 – 1st Quarter Nominations

Send us your comics criticism nominations.

The Not So Transgendered World of Osamu Tezuka’s <i>Princess Knight</i>

The Not So Transgendered World of Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight

Virtuous in intention.

February 13, 2012
By Ng Suat Tong
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The Sadomasochistic Protestant

One can only imagine the sweat trickling down the heroine’s immaculate body as she holds herself taut in anticipation of the reader’s gaze, delighting in her exquisite torture.

Review: <i>The Man Who Grew His Beard</i>

January 27, 2012
By Ng Suat Tong
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Review: The Man Who Grew His Beard

Schrauwen’s stories demand a certain degree of rereading, a flipping back and forth between pages and stories to decipher the playful code keys elaborating on the language of comics