Category Archives: Nonfiction
Not So Super
This morning I finished Kahan and Stewart’s Caped Crusaders 101: Composition through Comic Books. I was hoping that reading through it and giving the book more of a chance, I would have more positive words to say about it than I did … Continue reading
Yesterday’s Men
This past week I finished Gerard Jones’s Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book. As I had blogged last week, I’ve had this book for several years, but I had just not gotten around to reading … Continue reading
Youth Culture Killed My Dog
Yesterday I finished reading Bradford W. Wright’s Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. I highly recommend this title for anyone interested in comic-book history, or even interested in cultural American history in general. One of … Continue reading
Further Thoughts on Xaime
As I’ve mentioned in this blog previously, I’m in the process of working on an essay centered around Jaime Hernandez’s post-1996 comics–those that were published after the end of the first Love & Rockets series–and the way he deals with issues … Continue reading
Superbad
When it comes to mainstream comics, perhaps the most exciting writer today is Grant Morrison. At least for me. I’ve been a big fan of Morrison’s work for awhile, and I really enjoy both his off-beat, mind-bending, and metafictional work … Continue reading
Comic Reads
Over the past month and a half, as I’ve been making my way through several Woody Allen-related texts, I’ve also been reading quite a number of comics. Many of those have been superhero or mainstream, and I’ll discuss those in … Continue reading
Royal on Allen on Allen
I just finished Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman, and really enjoyed it. The book is a series of one-on-one interviews, or conversations, between Allen and Björkman that took place in the early 1990s, around the time … Continue reading
Woody Reconstruction
I just finished Mary Nichols’s Reconstructing Woody. It’s a good book, and my only substantive criticism is that at times the author relies too much on plot summary. Perhaps Nichols assumed that her main audience would be those unfamiliar with … Continue reading
More Woody
Lately I’ve been reading quite a bit on Woody Allen. Back in April I re-read Eric Lax’s latest book on the filmmaker, a wonderful collection of interviews thematically arranged, and since then I’ve picked up three other Allen-related texts. The … Continue reading
Various and Sundry
I’ve started several narratives over the past couple of days. One of them is Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, which I began listening to in audio form. It’s been awhile since I’ve picked up a McCarthy novel–the last was Suttree, … Continue reading