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Tom Gill on Tsuge and Tatsume

Tom Gill responds to comments on his essay about Tsuge, Tatsume, and Fetuses in the Sewer

The Real, The True, and The Told

An excerpt from The Real, The True, and The Told concerning Art Spiegelman’s Maus

Fetuses in the Sewer

In ‘Sewer’ by Tatsumi, a sewage worker finds a fetus while at work. In ‘Salamander’ by Tsuge, a salamander swimming in the sewers encounters a floating fetus.

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 [...]

Reading Between the Lines: The Subversion of Authority in Two Graphic Novels for Young Adults by Ariel Kahn

Gaze, authority, and children in Salem Brownstone and Skim

October 18, 2010
By Derik Badman
Article, Original Art, Sequential Erudition, Series
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Permanent Ink: Comic-Book and Comic-Strip Original Art as Aesthetic Object by Andrei Molotiu

Editor’s Introduction: This is the first of what we hope will be a monthly column, “Sequential Erudition”, which will reprint academic work in the field of comics studies. The numerous discussions around the Best American Comics Criticism volume brought up how divorced the academic writing about comics is from popular writing about comics, not because [...]