Oz and Ends

Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

Showing posts with label ARTIST Dave Gibbons. Show all posts

Showing posts with label ARTIST Dave Gibbons. Show all posts

26 April 2012

Alan Moore and the Pitfalls of Unforeseen Success

Folks who blog about superhero comics are apparently supposed to have a moral stand on DC Comics’s decision to commission prequels to Alan...

27 June 2010

The Short, Happy Life of the First Jason Todd

When I posited that Reason for Robin #10 is that “Robin Isn’t Evil,” I promised to discuss the two major counterexamples. Actually, back wh...

26 August 2009

No Smoking in the Watchmen Movie

One of the distinctive visual details in the graphic novel Watchmen , written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons , is the lollipop-sha...

10 April 2009

“America Was Like This Fabled Foreign Land”

I've quoted Neil Gaiman on trying to decipher American culture through American comic books . Here's Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons ...

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