Saturday, February 27, 2010

Casper, Formalism, and the 'Great' Search Party

For a revised and expanded version of the piece that was here,
please see The Comics Journal.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Teaching Comics: Describing Style

Recently in my American Writers class we read three comics: "Hazel Eyes" by Adrian Tomine, "Near Miss" by David Mazzucchelli, and "Island of Silk and Ectoplasm" by Matthew Thurber (all from Ivan Brunetti’s Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories, Vol. 2). In the hour and 15 minute class period, we discussed many aspects of these comics, but our particular focus was on “style.”

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Frozen Morisi

A revised version of what was here is now here:
http://www.tcj.com/dont-move-the-still-life-of-pete-morisi/

Cartoon Ecology

It can be "entertaining and enlightening" to look at similar words/objects/scenes as drawn by different artists. The following pairs of images are from "Benny Beaver," which appeared in Casper, The Friendly Ghost #1 [1949], and "Ecology Beaver," which appeared in Comic Art #9, by Tim Hensley [2007].

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