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 AUTHOR Art Spiegelman. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AUTHOR Art Spiegelman. Show all posts

28 March 2012

Spiegelman in Retrospection

Last night I attended a talk by Art Spiegelman at Northeastern University. During the Q&A at the end, an audience member asked what he ...

14 October 2011

What Made Maus YA?

More remarks on our cultural assumption that comics must be appropriate for kids from Dwight Garner’s review of Art Spiegelman ’s MetaMaus...

07 April 2010

“Children’s books are not real literature”?

John Hogan’s interview with Toon Books publisher and New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly moves away from easy-reader comics for a while ...

09 October 2009

American Comics and the Fantastic

Yesterday I suggested that Matt Phelan ’s graphic novel The Storm in the Barn is garnering better reviews than we’d expect if the same mag...

09 November 2007

Same Image, Slightly Different

Having broken the news that there are more pictures on a typical comics page than a typical picture-book page , I'm going out on a limb ...

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