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#100 Standing in Relation to Comics: A Special 100th Post
This post is a truly collaborative effort to mark our 100th post and introduce readers to a few new contributors. We’re each reflecting upon where we stand in relation to comics and, of course, doing a...
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#106 American Splendor: What’s In A Name?
My fellow Graphixians have focused mainly on adaptation into (or between) the medium of comics. For my first ‘proper’ post I will be looking at American Splendor as an example of a comics adaptation...
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#113 What Will It Take To Seduce You? – Coming of Age in Geneviève Castrée’s...
As the least Canadian member of the Graphixia crew (being neither a national nor studying there) I felt it was about time that I came of age by writing about a Canadian comic about coming of age. I...
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#115 “Okay… this looks bad”: Hawkeye and The Problem with Comics as Art
What is art? It’s a question that loads everything we’ll be discussing in this space over the next five weeks or so. And, as with most questions with such a loaded pretence, it inevitably leads us to...
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#119 The Hands of a Master: The Art of Jaime Hernandez
So, my plan to write about the connections between comics and fine art went out the window. I was going to talk about Picasso’s love of The Katzenjammer Kids, the links between Philip Guston, Robert...
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#127 – A Scottish Scrooge: Anthropomorphic Meaness in Walt Disney’s Scrooge...
One of the many great things about taking part in an academic conference and presenting a paper is the feedback and comments one receives from one’s peers. Last month I presented a paper at the...
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#146 Comics and The Culture of Collaboration as Public Good
When we encounter discussions of collaboration, there is a natural tendency to gravitate toward a conversation about practice and the process behind comic book production. However, we should be wary of...
View Article#149 The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life
The Graphixia crew is over at The New Everyday this week participating in a cluster about comics and the everyday. Here’s the intro to the cluster, curated by Ernesto Priego and me, David N. Wright. We...
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#153 Comic Books: Art Made in the Assembly Line
The smooth surfaces of our modern-day computers and mobile devices (phones, tablets, e-readers) can often hide the complex history of their making. Whereas it can be argued that the “digital age” has...
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#160 Black And White And Read All Over
A few weeks ago Peter wrote about how when he was a child “reading American comics from Marvel (mostly) and DC, I took colour for granted”. Scott also noted how colour was the default for comics...
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#169 You Can Tell Stories With Music Too
A small corner of the internet got very excited last week when writer Gabe Soria (Life Sucks) posted an entry titled ‘Historia de la Musica Rock: Locas’ to his tumblr. Among the many tweeters linking...
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#185 Are you a Ci or a Gast?
A few weeks ago Dave railed against the idea of posts about women in comics, “Let’s stop focussing on women in comics” he said, “Women are comics right now”. That’s as may be but how come only 10% of...
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#198 Comics Power!
You wait years for an event with an Indian cartoonist in Dundee and then two come along within a fortnight. At the end of June last year Scottish PEN and Literary Dundee hosted an event sponsored by...
View Article#200 Graphixia Conference 2016: Call for Proposals!
The Space Between Page and Screen: Comics and the Mediated World The deadline for proposal submission is September 30, 2015: Submit Proposal. In celebration of its 200th post, Graphixia solicits...
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#215 Inhumans in the family in The Motherless Oven
In The Motherless Oven (2014) Rob Davis presents a vivid fantasy world where the human and inhuman live side by side. However, he imbues the world with a sense of the everyday in keeping with a long...
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