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Cursing the Darkness: The Last Horrors of Alex Toth

April 28, 2014, 2:26 pm

Fear and suspense can be effectively created by the inference of the unknown. What is shown can be less harrowing than what is implied and then forms in the imagination of the reader. The late...

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Caniff: Momentum

April 28, 2014, 2:33 pm

“The impacts of both pictures and words drive more deeply into human awareness than any anthropologist has yet cared to note.” -Milton Caniff I just read four of IDW’s collections of Terry and the...

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Marie Severin’s Due

May 28, 2014, 2:37 pm

There can be no doubt that Marie Severin deserves a book about her lifelong efforts in comics. More recognition than that would be appropriate even if she wasn’t one of the few well-known female...

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Yearning for Space: a conversation with Tom Kaczynski

June 28, 2014, 2:38 pm

I first encountered Tom Kaczynski’s work while delving into the substantial collection of comics-related materials in Columbia University’s Butler Library stacks, where there is a run of Fantagraphics’...

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Kirby: Approaching the Threshold

July 28, 2014, 2:31 pm

The status of American comics pioneer and creative fount Jack Kirby slipped badly in the space of a few short years in the early 1970s. His highly successful resume at Marvel had led DC to promote his...

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Exes and Ohs

July 28, 2014, 2:36 pm

Jaime Hernandez uses the temporal flexibility of the comics medium to work like memory: moments that are far separated in time recontextualize when put in proximity to each other. He shows that the...

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