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May 29, 2006 03:40 PM EDT -- In a recent email exchange, one of my cousins expressed an interest in reading more graphic novels. I offered to make suggestions, and he responded with the following: Let me know which comics or graphic . . . more
November 28, 2006 06:12 PM EST -- At Cornell, where I am currently an ABD struggling to finish a dissertation, there is a program known as the First-Year Writing Seminars program. These are roughly the equivalent of the various Freshman . . . more
Seeing Scott McCloud
by Stephen Frug
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September 20, 2006 06:03 PM EDT -- So comics genius extraordinaire Scott McCloud is currently on tour to promote his new book, Making Comics. (I previously blogged my initial reaction to McCloud's extraordinary and wonderful new book . . . more
March 13, 2007 08:43 PM EDT -- There's something of a comics blogosphere tradition of making lists of 100 things you love about comics. It's a tradition begun, I believe, by Fred Hembeck; continued by Alan David Duane; and done . . . more
September 09, 2006 05:24 PM EDT -- 1. This is not a review. It is not a systematic attempt to analyze or evaluate the book under discussion, Scott McCloud's just-out graphic novel* Making Comics, his third nonfiction book** and the . . . more
January 30, 2007 04:33 PM EST -- So I've been reading Cerebus. Aside from those who respond to such a sentence with "what's that?" (or, "don't you mean Cerberus?"), there are two general reactions to this . . . more
February 01, 2007 02:40 PM EST -- In part one of this series, I talked about the reasons to avoid Cerebus -- or, more accurately, the reasons why even those who like it almost inevitably qualify their admiration, albeit to varying degrees. . . . more
February 08, 2007 02:17 PM EST -- Part three in a series. Part one is here; part two is here. For anyone who's read my earlier posts on Cerebus, the reasons to avoid the series should be obvious enough. But the good in it is harder . . . more
February 08, 2007 05:33 PM EST -- Part four in a series. Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here. The Church and State storyline (whose covers I have been discussing) is sixty issues long, so I have only begun to touch . . . more
March 02, 2007 02:28 PM EST -- Part six in a series. Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here; part four is here; part five is here. I have come to the third quarter of the "Mothers and Daughters" storyline, . . . more
March 02, 2007 06:35 PM EST -- Part Seven in a series. Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here; part four is here; part five is here; part six is here. One of the reasons I was surprised that I was unable to get into . . . more
March 14, 2007 06:06 PM EDT -- Second of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages. An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here. Paul Chadwick's Concrete is an odd but wonderful series. Beginning with a superhero-style . . . more
March 24, 2007 10:19 PM EDT -- Fourth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages. An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here. Grant Morrison is widely regarded as one of the greatest of mainstream comics writers . . . more
April 13, 2007 11:48 AM EDT -- Seventh of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages. An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here. Some things are so titanically great that we can even loose sight of how amazing . . . more
Superjew!
by Stephen Frug
views: 11 | rating: 8.5 | comments: 3
October 20, 2006 06:41 PM EDT -- If this doesn't make you laugh early on, just bail. Because either you'll get why this is the greatest thing ever, or you won't. If not, stop as soon as you figure that out. It won't get . . . more
February 16, 2007 11:37 PM EST -- Part five in a series. Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here; part four is here. Before moving on to discuss the covers of Melmoth, the story collected in the sixth "phonebook" . . . more
March 08, 2007 03:33 PM EST -- Part eight in an eight-part series. Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here; part four is here; part five is here; part six is here; part seven is here. So after all that, am I . . . more
March 13, 2007 08:48 PM EDT -- First of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages. An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here. City of Glass is a wonderful novel by Paul Auster -- first of a trilogy of which . . . more
March 30, 2007 12:56 PM EDT -- Fifth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages. An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here. When I began this series, I made a list of the first few entries I wanted to do . . . more
May 14, 2007 12:59 AM EDT -- Tenth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages. Links to: an introduction to the series; an index of posts by creator; an index of posts by title. "Megillat Esther" is the Hebrew term . . . more
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