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Category Archives: Graphica and Art
Hush, listen the beating heart
Yesterday I tweeted “currently wondering how many more times batman can have a double: hush, cacophony (of silence) and joker.” That was just before I read Paul Dini‘s Batman: Heart of Hush (which I picked up from the “sadly defunct … Continue reading
Unmaking the Unwritten
Mike Carey and Peter Gross‘s latest installment of The Unwritten (issue 11) muses intriguingly on propaganda and the way that stories can be turned into very different things from the author’s intention. In Issue 10, Tommy Taylor (it would easy … Continue reading
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Pictorial cultures – a day at IBBY
I went, partially, out of curiosity to the IBBY conference at Roehampton at yesterday which was themed around Graphic Novels and comics. I find it slightly odd going to these events as I’m not a professional scholar/researcher nor do I work … Continue reading
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Mysterious Houses – Dark Entries by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin’s Dark Entries is a locked room crime novel with a haunted house twist. Or is that a haunted house novel with a crime twist. Whatever, it is good. One of the first publications in the Vertigo Crime list … Continue reading
Watch your step on Greek Street
I approached the Greek Street series by Peter Milligan a little warily but it seems to fit into an emerging patterns about comics doing meta-fiction and musing on the recurrence of narratives, what with Mike Carey’s The Unwritten as well. … Continue reading
Needing a CBLDF for the UK?
The Independent has an article on the new Coroners and Justice Bill which is being introduced to parliament this week and a possible effect on graphic novels. The Bill contains a clause that is targeted towards hardcore paedophiliac pornography but … Continue reading
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Alan Moore talks to the Guardian about Watchman, Lost Girls and Northampton
I’ve just caught this interview with Alan Moore on the Guardian website where he talks about the Watchmen film, Lost Girls (which Top Shelf are bringing out in one volume in May) and a sequel to Voice of the Fire … Continue reading
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Opening the closet – was Tintin gay?
From the department of overreaching readings comes an article by Hugh Rifkind in the Times titled “Of Course Tintin’s gay. Ask Snowy” which trots out some ‘evidence’ that he was gay. It is sloppy writing and research by somebody either … Continue reading
Fairy tales and cultural meanings
The Boston Globe has a quick article on the sanitisation of fairy tales in Disney films. Its not a new idea but as I begin thinking about Tintin and Asterix, I realise how like fairy tales they both are, in … Continue reading
Reimagining occupation – Tintin and Asterix
I’ve been reading Matthew Screech’s Master of the Ninth Art and he makes a valid point about Tintin and Asterix. Hergé engaged with the rise of Fascism in The Black Isle and mainly in King Ottakar’s Sceptre. Screech argues that … Continue reading