By Juda Bennett and Cassandra Jackson Chris J. Cuomo and Kim Q. Hall have argued that “Scholars and activists critically interrogating whiteness seek to decenter rather…
By Brandy Ball Blake In their articles on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s ground-breaking graphic novel, both Brent Fishbaugh and Jamie A. Hughes indicate that Watchmen experiments with…
By Frank Bramlett Based on a character from the 1950s, The Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather appeared in 2003 as a five–part serial in which Johnny Bart was…
By Theo Finigan In using the myth, in manipulating a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity, Mr. Joyce is pursuing a method which others must pursue…
By DT Kofoed Comics as a generic medium is implicitly defined by the dual boundaries of panel and page. The implications of transgressing these constraints are…
By Aaron Mauro The arcade is an anachronism. The arcade has always been out of time. While reading Walter Benjamin’s great unfinished work The Arcades Project, one…
By Benjamin Stevens I. Introduction Craig Thompson’s Blankets (Top Shelf Productions 2003) ends with five pages of ‘silence’ (578-82). Since Blankets is a comic – it calls itself “an…
By Terry Harpold Hanks, Fletcher. I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! Ed. Paul Karasik. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2007. (Winner of the 2008 Eisner Award for Best…
Juda Bennett Juda Bennett is Associate Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. He is the author of numerous essays on racial passing…