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Tag Archives: Comics canon

On Comics History and the Canon

comics and cartooning, hype & linkage, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel15 October 2013

Just thought I’d collect links to a number of writings on comics I’ve done over the years on comics history and aesthetics, as well as some of the great or otherwise significant works that have shaped it, here and elsewhere. Hopefully it will be interesting or useful to anybody interested in the subject, not the…

Scheherezade’s Longbox

comics and cartooning, hype & linkageBy Matthias Wivel11 October 20114 Comments

Just got word from Paul Gravett that his massive 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die is out in the UK, with the American edition to be released on 25 October and other national editions to follow. Many will be familiar with this popular series covering everything from books to wine. The remarkable thing…

Loose Canon

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, hype & linkageBy Matthias Wivel20 August 201116 Comments

My contribution to the Hooded Utilitarian’s International Best Comics Poll is now online in the very last post in the two-week marathon poor Robert Stanley Martin has been conducting over there (ah, the never-ending joy of being last in the alphabet). It has been an interesting project, conducted by Robert with composure and diligence, so…

Picks of the Week

comics and cartooning, current affairs, hype & linkageBy Matthias Wivel8 August 2011

“…when faced with the greatest economic crisis, the greatest levels of economic inequality, and the greatest levels of corporate influence on politics since the Depression, Barack Obama stared into the eyes of history and chose to avert his gaze. Instead of indicting the people whose recklessness wrecked the economy, he put them in charge of…

Get yer Faves!

comics and cartooning, hype & linkageBy Matthias Wivel1 July 20115 Comments

Today I received Favorites, the zine Craig Fischer has put together to benefit Team Cul de Sac’s fundraising to support research into Parkinson’s disease. It’s a great little thing I encourage you to buy and read, and not — really! — just because I have a piece in it on Carl Barks. You see, Team…

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