Category Archives: Alternative Comics
Comics Cornucopia, Part 3: Disappointments
Of the comics I’ve been catching up on lately, there are two titles that, unfortunately, stand out as disappointments. I had expected a lot more from these, but for various reasons, I found them falling short of my expectations. The … Continue reading
Comics Cornucopia, Part 2: Charles Burns
When I read Charles Burns’s X’ed Out back early last year, I applauded the return of this great, warped, and surreal creator. It had been several years since Black Hole, and I was glad that Burns was back in form and producing the … Continue reading
Comics Cornucopia, Part 1: Image (and Dark Horse) Comics
I’ve been reading a lot over the past couple of months — comics, history, fiction — although I just haven’t been posting about it. In fact, it’s been since September that I last posted on Words Generally Only Spoil Things. … Continue reading
Goodbye to Scalped
I’ve been reading a number of things over the past couple of weeks. Some — such as Petrograd, Tune: The Vanishing Point, and volumes of Witch Doctor and Atomic Robo — are books that Andy and I will discuss in upcoming episodes of The … Continue reading
Going Through the Stack
One of my habits when reading comic books — and I’m referring to actual comic books (monthlies, floppies), not what is commonly referred to as “graphic novels” — is to hold on to several month’s worth of them and then … Continue reading
Re-Understanding Comics
Recently I picked up Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, rereading the book for the umpteenth time. I am doing so because I’m using it as a text in a course I’m teaching this semester, and I always like to … Continue reading
Good Stuff at First Second
Over the past several years, I’ve been impressed with many of the books coming out of First Second, which is part of Macmillan. They’ve published the volumes in Grady Klein’s Lost Colony series, Yang’s American Born Chinese, Sfar’s Klezmer: Tales of the … Continue reading
Classroom Comic Quandaries
Is there a good comics-related textbook out there? I guess it all depends on what you want to teach and what your approach to comic studies is. Yesterday I began reading Jeffrey Kahan and Stanley Stewart’s Caped Crusaders 101: Composition through … Continue reading
Of Fanboys and Ruskies
I am a history buff, and I enjoy reading about American political and cultural history, including pop cultural history. More specifically, I enjoy reading about comics history and its political resonances. Lately I’ve read, or have been in the process … Continue reading
Krazy Komic Katch-up
It’s been over a month since I last posted on the blog, and this has been because most of the past month or so has been consumed with packing and moving. I have recently relocated to Texas, and the last … Continue reading