Voices form the Archive: Tucker Stone on 100 Bullets
Way back when I wrote a post about my disappointment with 100 Bullets. There was a small internet brouhaha. Tucker Stone pitched in with some thoughts on the series in general and the Dave Johnson...
View ArticleVoices From the Archive: Trina Robbins on Selling Marvel’s Barbie Comics
Trina posted this comment comment during our Wonder Woman roundtable a while back: The problem definitely seems to be that the mainstream two do not know how to market to girls and women. Back in the...
View ArticleVoices From the Archive: Prose and Eddie Campbell’s Alec (and also Peanuts)
So for a change I thought I’d highlight one of my own comments from way back when. This is in response to a piece by Caroline Small talking about the prose in Eddie Campbell’s Alec. Here’s what I...
View ArticleVoices From the Archive: Marc Singer on the Morality of All-Star Superman
A while back I expressed skepticism about All-Star Superman; Marc Singer replied with a long and eloquent defense, which I’m reprinting here. His comment is below. Thanks for the link and the comments,...
View ArticleVoices from the Archive: Kurt Busiek on Copyright Extension and Comics
Kurt Busiek weighed in in comments a while back about what rights the original creators should have when copyright is extended on works owned by corporations (i.e. Superman.) His thoughts are below....
View ArticleVoices From the Archive: Jason Thompson on Orientalism
Jason Thompson responded to a discussion of Orientalism and reverse-Orientalism in Moto Hagio’s Heart of Thomas with a long post about Orientalism and art. I’ve reprinted it below. IMHO, it’s important...
View ArticleVoices from the Archive: Caroline Small on the Failures of Comics Symbolism
This is from a ways back, when Caro would theorize at length in comments threads. Caroling Small: Questions about storytelling and representation and all those things are literary themes. But literary...
View ArticleVoices from the Archive: Caroline Small on Delany, Definitions, and Comics
/p> Caroline Small wrote an interesting commenton Samuel Delany’s view of comics and Scott McCloud; thought I’d reproduce it here. Jeet and Noah: I guess I am still deeply skeptical about the...
View ArticleVoices from the Archive: Caroline Small on Female Comics Creators
As I mentioned yesterday, Kelly Thompson is running a poll to make a list of the best female comics creators. I thought I’d reproduce one of Caroline Small’s comments on this topic from some time back....
View ArticleUtilitarian Review 1/12/18
Patreon My countdown of all time albums continues with #94, Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Keyboard Fantasias. Utilitarians Everywhere Not sure I announced this yet, but I’m now a contract writer at...
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