29 August 2017

No Need to Visit Skull Castle

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Seeing Dirk Gringhuis’s 1964 Mystery at Skull Castle in David Maxine’s collection made me curious about it. Fortunately, David has alread...
28 August 2017

An Upsetting Tap on the Shoulder

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In a conversation with novelist John Le Carré arranged and recorded by the New York Times Book Review , the espionage historian Ben Macint...
26 August 2017

Picturing an Author-Illustrator as Her Book

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Here’s a nice quote from John Rocco, artist of the upcoming picture-book biography Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton , written ...
14 August 2017

“Dark stuff for 8–12 year olds”

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Highlighting Patrick Hogan’s essay “A Children's Book About Aliens Turned Me Into a Socialist” at Splinter, about the My Teacher Is a...
20 July 2017

DeConnick Scripting from the Dialogue

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In this 2011 interview with with Tom Spurgeon at the Comics Reporter, comics scripter Kelly Sue DeConnick described her method of writing...
18 July 2017

The Tin Woodman of Forkland

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Starting in 1993, Jim Bird has been building statuary out of old farm equipment and hay bales on his fields in Forkland, Alabama. Among th...
17 July 2017

Airlocked-Room Mystery

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In 2002, M. T. Anderson began his novel Feed with the line, “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck....
15 July 2017

Work with Children and Animals

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This call for papers came up on the H-Childhood email list: Child-Animal Relationships in Comics: Historical and Transcultural Perspecti...
13 July 2017

What the New Spider-Man Comes Home to

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Back in 2014, it was widely reported that Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a superhero movie crossed with a 1970s political thril...
12 July 2017

Gendered Journaling

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This is from the opening of Henry Reed, Inc. , written by Keith Robertson and published in 1958. This is a journal, not a diary. Diaries a...
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