MMF Guest Post on The Panelists

MMF Guest Post on The Panelists I wrote about Japanese cartoonist Mitsuru Adachi’s Cross Game for group blog The Panelists as part of the monthly Manga Moveable Feast blogging event (wow, that’s a lot of links). I analyzed a few of Adachi’s narrative and structural techniques and talked about how Cross Game differs from other […]

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I just posted a new comic on my website. It is called ‘Empty’ and you should go read it. I hope you enjoy it; please me let know what you think. I finished this one quite a while ago, but for a number of reasons it took me forever to get it online. In other […]

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I just re-listened to this panel (courtesy of the Comics Journal) on the Best American Comics Criticism book (a collection of comics criticism from 2000 to 2008 edited by Ben Schwartz and published by Fantagraphics) for the second or third time since it was first posted. While everyone on the panel has intelligent things to […]

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This is great. I really enjoy a lot of Clowes’ early comics for exactly this reason – a tone of violent disdain and even hate that permeates almost all of his work from that time. This has, it seems to me, morphed in his recent stuff into a more subdued, complex disdain that is less […]

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One of my favorite pages from Tom Herpich’s Gongwanadon comic. I love stuff like this that explores the boundaries of what comics are and can be. Also, you should really make an effort to track down Gongwanadon and Cusp, both of which collect several of Tom’s short stories. You can get them for cheap on […]