04 March 2008

Hot Air from the “Heartland”

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Today's New York Times ran a report by Andrew C. Revkin on the Heartland Institute's conference in New York, trying to refute the ...
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03 March 2008

The Movie Provoking the Most Fearful Responses

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From today's New York Times comes this obituary of Dr. Peter B. Neubauer , a child psychologist who focused on violence on television. ...
02 March 2008

For a Guy Without Pants

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A long-time Oz and Ends reader replied to my "For a Guy Without Super-Powers" essay that what Robin most obviously lacked wasn...
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01 March 2008

Following the Money with Captain America

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One of my theories of life is that a surprising amount of what we'd like to consider as artistic change is driven not by individual crea...
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29 February 2008

Shadowy Dragons’ Tails in The Arrival

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In his New York Times review of The Arrival , Gene Luen Yang mentioned one striking detail of the early scenes: "Shadowy dragons’ ta...
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28 February 2008

Who Should Welcome The Arrival?

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Shaun Tan 's The Arrival was one of the five titles on the shortlist for the 2007 Cybils Award for Best Graphic Novels for teens and y...
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27 February 2008

Interpreting The Arrival

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Shaun Tan designed The Arrival to look like a weathered scrapbook. The paper-over-boards cover shows a fraying leather binding. The tones ...
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26 February 2008

A Few Words on Wordlessness

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In The Art of the Comic Book (University Press of Mississippi, 1996), R. C. Harvey states: "A cartoonist is one who creates in the vi...
25 February 2008

Models of Magical Law Enforcement

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My recent return to the world of Artemis Fowl left me thinking about magical law-enforcement. It's widely recommended that fantasy auth...
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24 February 2008

Rolling in the Gutters

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In book production, the "gutter" is the place where two facing pages meet at the binding. Because book pages rarely lie flat there...