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  • Subjectivity and a rant on Comics Scholarship

    So, this is a review of a paper that is listed in my bibliography. If you’d like to see more of these, let me know… Driest, Joris. 2005. Subjective Narration in Comics. Masters Thesis. Utrecht University. This piece covers a broad overview of the ways in which “subjectivity” is represented in the “comics medium.” Of…

  • Tis the Season: Happy Bodhi Day!

    This will probably only be funny to a few people, but…

  • Permutations

    Today, like all Wednesdays, I’ve posted another segment of my ongoing “Meditations” at my webcomicsnation site. Since those works were all done awhile ago, I’ll try to give some background to them here as I go along. The current ongoing piece is a visual poem entitled “Permutations,” that I wrote in college — gosh —…

  • Bibliography

    Amongst my exuberance to update about the blog and the new essay, I almost forgot that I’ve put some new entries in my Reference Bibliography. I don’t know if people really use it or not, but I intend for it to be a resource for people looking for information related to this field. I actually…

  • Cross-Cultural Space

    I have a new essay available at my site entitled “Cross Cultural Space”. This paper is not very heavy on theoretical issues, but rather represents my efforts to diversify my methods through the coding of individual panels. For this one, I looked at 300 panels in each of 12 American and 12 Japanese books to…

  • Why a blog?

    I’ve already been updating my news and I have a forum for this site, so why a blog? Well, I figure that a blog can allow me to voice my own thoughts, while the forum can be a more democratic avenue for discussion of comic theory. A blog can also let me discuss thoughts that…