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Poll on "Sandman" and Gender...
*waves*
*clears throat*
I don't want to ramble you to death, so I'll make it really, really short... Some paragraphs in The Sandman Companion had me wondering if particular Sandman anthologies were indeed "gendered", as Neil Gaiman apparently thinks. So now I'm trying to find fans who'd like to take a short poll and tell me about their preferences ( Read more... ) -
Argh.
Just two entries ago, I listed NinthArt as one of the sites worth visiting.
Quote from the website:
Announcement: After more than five years, Ninth Art is closing down. Our last update will be on June 19th. In the meantime, please keep checking in over the next three weeks for our final few updates - and thank you for reading.
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But, Mommy, I *like* comics.
Now, most comic moms are dead or crazy. Some aren't ( Read more... ) -
"Fan fiction kills Comics!"
Well, okay, that weren't exactly his words, but probably the essence of it all. I read an article by David Ivanack at SaVant, and it's still confusing the heck outta me. It's also annoying. (And old. I think it's from 2001 or something.)
Go read it; it's just a few short paragraphs... I'll wait here ( Read more... ) -
Links: Sources, Webzines, Blogs (#1)
There are kajillions of comic-related websites out there, and I thought I'd share some of my favourites. I'm not that much into "news" or "merch" stuff, which means I rarely ever browse the official sites of publishing houses and the like, but I like reading some nice and interesting essays. Some articles from said websites already got linked here ( Read more... ) -
"Theory of Character: Maggie"
I wrote this; I might as well post it. It was written for a Lit Theory class and certainly wasn't intended for broad publication. The assignment was to produce a 2-4pp reading of a text using the methods demonstrated by Michael Riffaterre, Roland Barthes, or Joel Weinsheimer; I chose the latter and wrote on Jaime Hernandez's "100 Rooms," a Locas ( Read more... ) -
Sandman time! part 2 - now with "Watchmen"-Bonus
~- The Nightmare and the Dream: A Literary Survey of Watchmen and Sandman - by A. David Lewis
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Sandman time!
This entry, as well as the next, will center around Neil Gaiman's probably most famous work, the Sandman series published by Vertigo.
First, there's a great review by Rebecca Scott over at greenmanreview - it covers all the books, volume I to X. That's one of the reasons why I included this link. The other is that it's not just a recap of the ( Read more... ) -
Manga rulez11!!1 ... I guess?
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Paul O'Brien : "Manga dominates the shelves"
"This time last year, I predicted that the most important story of 2003 would be the increasing domination of manga. At that point, it was already dominating the graphic novel shelves in American bookstores. We appeared to be witnessing the emergence of a completely parallel market for comics - one ( Read more... ) -
Shojo Manga / Women in Manga
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kalinara, in her blog "Pretty, Fizzy Paradise":
"See, ironically, what I grew tired of with manga is its portrayal of female characters, which in its own way I find is no less (and no more) sexist than American Superhero comics.
In my experience women in Japanese comics all tend to fall into a few groups..."
Click!Then there's this wonderful ( Read more... )