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  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by John Keats

    Today I begin posting a new Meditations piece up at my webcomicsnation site. This one is entitled La Belle Dame Sans Merci and is a visual adaptation of the John […]

  • Naming the System

    I’ve been thinking lately about the differences between “visual language” and “comics”, and why no one has really made the separation between the two before. It struck me that our […]

  • Shojo Manga

    I went to an exhibit today on Shojo (girls’) manga, hosted by Masami Toku, who does research on art education, especially concerning manga. I have corresponded with her for several […]

  • New story, coming soon

    Today’s Meditations page is the penultimate segment of Karuna, though its essentially the finale. I drew the mouse’s legs in that panel just as I remembered them – sticking out […]

  • America, yours and mine

    Tonight, I joined thousands of people across the globe to protest the Iraq war on its third anniversary. Here in Chicago, we marched down Michigan Ave’s Magnificent Mile, next to […]

  • Bound by Law?

    In the non-fiction comic department, this is a well done piece explaining copyright law. I think it makes a good argument for the place of copyright limitations and freedoms have […]

  • Books Galore

    I got my first shipment of Meditations books the other day (outside of my proof copy), and I must say, I am quite pleased. The printing turned out awesome. The […]

  • Probing “art” and “literature”

    I belong to a “comics scholars” listserve that has been discussing whether there needs to be an established “Comics Studies” field (I say a resounding “no”). This has had me […]

  • Too Many Twos

    I’ve got a short new piece up at Comixpedia for my ongoing “Comic Theory 101” column called “Two Many Twos.” This one continues my series of short pieces where I […]

  • Oh “Graphic Novel”, I hardly knew ye

    I was in the kid’s section of a bookstore the other day looking for a stickerbook for the 5 year olds I teach, and I came across a book titled […]