By Vincent M. Basso In the winter of 1895, Richard Felton Outcault’s Yellow Kid, a big eared, bald headed, and jovial urchin, appeared in a…
By Mary J. Henderson In 2015 Marvel began a marketing campaign with the branding slogan “All-New, All-Different.” The “All-New, All-Different” advertisements showed images of superheroes who…
By Emily Lauer The graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic seems an unlikely candidate for a bestseller, and an unlikely candidate for adaptation for the musical stage.…
By Debraghya Sanyal Its general omission from most critical engagements notwithstanding1, color has long been one of the prime stimuli of narrative and formal choices…
By Rikke Platz Cortsen In recent years, the Norwegian comics creators Steffen Kverneland and Lars Fiske have made themselves known through their artist biographies in comics…
By Jean-Matthieu Méon Tintin at the Grand Palais! This event establishes the place of comics among Fine Arts, but, maybe also, Georges Remi’s access to immortality.…
By Elizabeth Nijdam In 1991, the East German graphic arts collective PGH Glühende Zukunft (1989-1993) hosted an art opening in their workshop and exhibition space…
By Małgorzata Olsza “It’s rare to find an art that is intelligent about itself.” – Pablo Picasso (after Bois 169) The relation between art and comics, or, indeed,…
By Jean Braithwaite Mikkonen, Kai. The Narratology of Comic Art. Routledge, 2017. Kai Mikkonen has been working toward The Narratology of Comic Art more than a decade, judging by the…
By Ayanni C.H. Cooper Burroughs, Todd Steven. Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography from Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates. Diasporic Africa Press, 2018. 2018 saw the release,…