By Amy Giroux The earliest Maya poetry is etched on a jade plaque along with the date 3483; “For those of us who come from…
By Jeffery Klaehn Paul Rivoche is a freelance illustrator, animation designer and professional comic book artist/writer working out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His career traces back…
By Mitchell C. Lilly What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed.…
By Jorge Santos In 1999 comic artist and children’s literature author Rhode Montijo self-published Pablo’s Inferno, the story of a young boy’s mad-cap adventures through Hell, thanks…
By Eric L. Berlatsky Miller, Ann and Bart Beaty, eds. The French Comics Theory Reader. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven UP, 2014. Comics scholars frequently discuss the differences…
By Christopher M. Cox Evenson, Brian. Ed vs Yummy Fur: Or, What Happens When a Serial Comic Becomes a Graphic Novel. Minneapolis, MN: Uncivilized Books, 2014. In Ed…
By Jaquelin Elliott Round, Julia. Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. “Horror and comics are old friends” – so begins Julia Round’s Gothic in…
By Megan Fowler Wainer, Alex M. Soul of the Dark Knight: Batman as Mythic Figure in Comics and Film. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014. Alex…
By A. David Lewis Cohn, Neil. The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Print. Back…
By Mitch Murray Hoberek, Andrew. Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2014. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen, in all likelihood the most famous…