Scott McCloud « The Hooded Utilitarian

June 27, 2012
By Connor Delaney
Blog, Comics Criticism 101, Top Featured
8 comments

Seeing the Big Picture: The Use of Composition in Comics

Composition in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Blood in the Gutters

Panels, gutters, closure, and comics.

June 8, 2012
By Ryan Melcher
Article, Comics Criticism 101, Top Featured
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The Color Question

Color as simplification in Murray and Heath’s Hearts and Minds

Comics Criticism 101: An Introduction

Comics and composition; an introduction to a series of student papers

Through Space, Through Time: Four Dimensional Perspective and the Comics by Eric Berlatsky

Originally presented: Panel on Frames and Ways of Seeing in Modernist Narrative at The Tenth Annual Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conference, Nashville, TN, November 2008. Author’s introduction (“disclaimer”) This paper was presented at the Modernist Studies Association conference two years ago. As such, the audience for the talk was not comics scholars, or, even, necessarily [...]

March 30, 2010
By Caro
Blog
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Even so, we love you!

In last week’s thread on definitions in comics, DerikB posed the question whether print advertisements count as comics. Sam Delany makes a convincing case that the question itself is impossible and probably shouldn’t even be asked, but he makes an exception for specific functional contexts where the project of definition works primarily to describe. On [...]