30 June 2007

Oz through the Comics, Comics through Oz

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At the end of Oz and Ends's first COMICS WEEK, I'm circling back to Oz. It might be possible to track every major thread of American...
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29 June 2007

Look Out, Everyone!

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Hours of fun may be found at Mister Kitty's Stupid Comics . The panel above, for instance, comes from 1989's Guardians of Justice ...
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28 June 2007

The Great Canadian Graphic Novel

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My comments yesterday about the minority of comic strips that have their characters age reminded me that for months I've been meaning to...
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27 June 2007

Hobbesian Philosophizing

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From Philip Sandifer's "When Real Things Happen to Imaginary Tigers," in InterText : Let us begin more simply – with a straig...
26 June 2007

Divided by a Common Language While Clubbing

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Clubbing , by Andi Watson and Josh Howard, is a Minx graphic novel published in the US but set in rural England. (See yesterday's postin...
25 June 2007

Passing On Re-Gifters

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For reasons as untraceable as a mistake in a sodoku puzzle, I find myself on the mailing list for Minx , DC Comics's imprint for graphic...
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24 June 2007

Graphic Novels, Some More Graphic Than Others

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This will be COMICS WEEK at Oz and Ends since I’ve built up a bunch of thoughts on that topic and have nowhere else to put them. To start, h...
23 June 2007

The Stormbreaker Contrivance

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Yesterday I wrote about a passage in Lionboy: The Chase that impressed me as a good example of how authors can plant information and occas...
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22 June 2007

He Wondered If He Would Ever See Julius Again

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On page 124 of Lionboy: The Chase , Zizou Corder inserts what seems at first glance to be an extraneous paragraph. Young hero Charlie Ashant...
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21 June 2007

Divided by a Common Language Into the Wild

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Usually I use the "Divided by a Common Language" heading to discuss difference between American and British English. But there are...