22 November 2011

The Tin Woodman’s Head on My Mind

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In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , W. W. Denslow gave the Tin Woodman a skull-shaped head. Of course, the long nose and ears riveted on tha...
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21 November 2011

Daredevil and the Family Circus

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A day after  analyzing some big panels in which a single character appears multiple times, I read  Tucker Stone’s Comixology interview wit...
20 November 2011

Eleven Nightwings in One Panel

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Earlier this month Miguel Rosa at Comics Without Frontiers set himself to “find a panel that shows a character doing multiple actions.” Th...
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19 November 2011

Eleanor Davis Shows the Invisible

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I can’t keep writing about how comics “show the invisible” without pointing to Eleanor Davis ’s delight-filled The Secret Science Alliance ...
18 November 2011

“The utter eradication of thought balloons”

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Once established (as discussed yesterday ), thought balloons became a valuable way that comics creators could “show the invisible,” which I...
17 November 2011

“Characters were constantly speaking to themselves out loud”

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At a new blog called Comics Without Frontiers, Miguel Rosa traces the development of thought balloons in the first year of Superman and Sp...
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15 November 2011

Cartoon Art Museum Has Gone to Oz

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Last week the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco opened an exhibit on Oz comics . It draws heavily on the collection of Peter Maresca, publ...
14 November 2011

“Mine is full of slightly antiquated, pre-contemporary language”

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The British publishing magazine The Bookseller has run an interview with debut fantasy novelist James Treadwell (also Godson’s Dad). Altho...
13 November 2011

“One Robin will not be enough.”

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Batman: The Brave and the Bold , #13 , issued this week, features six former and future Robins brought together by the convenient mystical ...
12 November 2011

Pingback

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The following review originally appeared at Slashdot . Later it was copied onto Amazon, as of this week 10,196 of 10,568 people found it hel...