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#144 Jeffrey Brown’s School for Whiny Children, or Why Whiny Comics are OK...
Damon Herd’s recent critique of Jeffrey Brown in these pages has made me feel strange. When Damon asked Jeffrey Brown (not to his face) to get over himself, I wondered perhaps if I needed to do the...
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#162 Alternative Comics in Colour? Imagine That!
Although I’m going to focus on contemporary cartoonists in this post, I’m grateful to be following Ernesto’s piece about The Yellow Kid and colour’s part in the debate surrounding the origins of the...
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#171 Not Just A Phase: Music, Fandom and Visual Devices in Alec Longstreth’s...
So far this series of posts on comics and music has confirmed that there are no shortage of comics either about music or featuring music as an important, integral element of their narrative,...
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#177 What Is Not Drawn: Silence in Jeff Lemire’s Essex County
After I read Essex County for the first time last month, following Peter’s first post about it, I tweeted that I saw Jeff Lemire as “The Raymond Carver of Comics.” It’s not always that valuable to make...
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#182 Necessary Memoirs: Autobiography and Women in Comics
Following Dave’s polemical opening to this series on women in comics is a tough gig, as I feel whatever I write will now be judged in the context of his questioning of how useful or valuable it is to...
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#192 – From Here to Here
Intro from Paddy This contribution by myself and Benoît to the Graphixia series on collaboration takes a slightly different angle to the others. We thought it would be interesting to examine the nature...
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#199 – Pat Grant’s Toormina Video, on video
Like the majority of the Graphixians have done this series, I feel I ought to open with a disclaimer about my comfort zone being firmly within Anglo-American comics, and to offer my assurance that I’m...
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#209 Neoliberalism in Boneville
It’s midnight as I write this, and I’m in Paris. I was supposed to be home in London by now, but some striking ferry workers started a fire in the channel tunnel, and when I tried to get a flight I was...
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#216 “But why is he an elf?” – Humanity at a distance in James Kochalka’s comics
James Kochalka’s American Elf (RIP) is undoubtedly one of the most prominent comic strips in contemporary American Autobiographical Comics, and one which set the tone for many diary strips and...
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#226 B. Kliban and Why We Draw Cats
I’m going to get a little personal with this post, as the theme of comics from the seventies has provided me with a great excuse to talk about one of my favourite subjects for cartooning and something...
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#192 From Here to Here
Intro from Paddy This contribution by myself and Benoît to the Graphixia series on collaboration takes a slightly different angle to the others. We thought it would be interesting to examine the nature...
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#199 Pat Grant’s Toormina Video, on video
Like the majority of the Graphixians have done this series, I feel I ought to open with a disclaimer about my comfort zone being firmly within Anglo-American comics, and to offer my assurance that I’m...
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#209 Neoliberalism in Boneville
It’s midnight as I write this, and I’m in Paris. I was supposed to be home in London by now, but some striking ferry workers started a fire in the channel tunnel, and when I tried to get a flight I was...
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#216 “But why is he an elf?” – Humanity at a distance in James Kochalka’s comics
James Kochalka’s American Elf (RIP) is undoubtedly one of the most prominent comic strips in contemporary American Autobiographical Comics, and one which set the tone for many diary strips and...
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