Craig Thompson’s Habibi: Gorgeous, a Bit Overwhelming
Craig Thompson is a masterful comic book artist with the ability to fill pages with life: the amount of detail he includes in some of his drawings is incredible and astounding, as is the sheer scope of...
View ArticleComics as Literature, Part 2: Memorable Memoirs
One of the more common methods of using comics as a medium for serious narrative is the memoir. It turns out that comics and memoirs are a great match: memories can be precise or hazy, trustworthy or...
View ArticleComics as Literature, Part 5: Impolite Dinner Conversation
As Linus van Pelt once put it, "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." Well, I probably won't devote an entire post to the Great...
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