How Your Money Works from MUSCLEBEAVER on Vimeo. Filed under: web sweet web [read more]

Caroline "Caro" Small writes on Lilli Carré’s minicomic “The Thing about Madeline” and also her film Head Garden which will be shown at SPX. [read more]

Drawing Fire: Strong artwork saves two otherwise flawed graphic novels about war By Andrea Appleton Baltimore City Paper September 1, 2010 [read more]

Meet a Local Con Organizer: A Chat with Small Press Expo's Jeff Alexander [read more]

Se non conoscete Dash Shaw, vi invito a recuperare in fretta. Si tratta di uno dei migliori autori del fumetto statunitense contemporaneo, ed è ormai al lavoro su progetti sempre più ambiziosi. Il suo prossimo e complesso progetto sarà ... [read more]

In spite of being at the Baltimore Comic-Con and bringing all the cosplay G.I. Joes over to Shannon Gallant's table, Jim's got new pages of his excellent webcomic up now: [read more]

FRANK CHO UPDATE: Oil painting sells at Comic-Con auction for $10K By Michael Cavna Washington Post Comic Riffs August 31, 2010 [read more]

This is a really a year of reaping the harvest of work, done over a long period of time. So far this year, I've been published in Sweden and the US with Swedish Comics History (in English), in Great Britain and the US with two different ... [read more]

Zadzooks: George Romero Interview A visit with zombie-film king Romero By Joseph Szadkowski The Washington Times August 26, 2010 [read more]

Apparently there's something in the air lately. Here's The Beat's report on Mark Waid's speech about copyright. Here's me on the topic a few days ago. In the comments on The Beat, I agree with Stuart Moore's reasoned take. Note Dean Ha ... [read more]

I'm working on an article for the City Paper, but here's another person's take on the story: [read more]

History Detectives [read more]

At Baltimore Comic-Con my buddy Shannon Gallant gave me a sketch he did of "Real Leela," based on the Futurama character. You too can commission him to draw one of these (actually I asked for the Shadow, but he stayed busy all weekend d ... [read more]

NCTE has moved its 2012 annual convention as a political statement against current immigration policies in Arizona. Originally planned to convene in Phoenix, the national convention of English teachers and literacy educators has been mo ... [read more]

Small Press Expo Announces Richard Thompson, Nate Powell and R. Sikoryak as guests for SPX 2010. [read more]

Reminiscent of the hooplah over non-Asian actors in The Last Airbender, the news here also centers on a beloved Asian American character from the series, which I can't recommend enough, especially in the earlier years. Niko's casting ca ... [read more]

Liniers, autore di Macanudo, in una performance di disegno dal vivo a Buenos Aires. Due ore di lavoro compresse in pochi – ma ben più efficaci – minuti di video: Filed under: autori&artisti, linguaggi Tagged: liniers, performance [read more]

I’m guest blogging this week over at ComixTalk. [read more]

David Bordwell is the kind of critic we need in comics. His brand of poetics overlaps quite a bit with Ken Parille’s analytical criticism”. If you’re not reading his (and Kristin Thompson’s, his wife and also a prominent film scholar) b ... [read more]

I'm a bit tired so here's some new pictures. [read more]

'Dustin' moves in Kevin Siers Charlotte Observer's You Write the Caption blog August 25 2010 [read more]

Computer Animation, Made by Hand By JOHN ANDERSON New York Times August 29, 2010 [read more]

Domingos Isabelinho wrote about Frans Masereel the other month at The Hooded Utilitarian, and it got me pulling my copy of Passionate Journey (1918) of the shelf. I have a nice little hardcover from City Lights Books, which I got at the ... [read more]

Abbiamo avuto occasione, di recente, di parlare di Andrea Pazienza attraverso una (poco) interessante lettura critica ospitata dalla rivista Flash Art. Forse è un paradosso solo apparente, ma credo che gli elementi più interessanti per ... [read more]

As visitors to this site have noticed, I have not yet managed, after publication of my book, to provide the updates, corrections and supplemental material to Komiks: Comic Art in Russia as planned. My apologies. [read more]

Nancy King, who is running for the senate in Maryland, has been running mailers that suggest that if teachers are laid off, the world will come to an end because students will have to read comic books. [read more]

Manche Comics gehören einfach in eine Zeitung. Aber wo sollen sie dort einen Platz finden? Zwischen den Nachrichten, bei der Literatur oder gar auf einer eigenen Humorseite? Wenn man dieser Erzählform Gehör verschaffen will, dann muss m ... [read more]

Un altro studente di animazione, un altro cortometraggio di eccellente livello: Filed under: linguaggi Tagged: anime [read more]

Or, more specifically, I just read two of Robert Marsh's Monster and Me graphic novels. I read Monster Moneymaker, a hilarious story reminiscent of The Chocolate War, but with monsters, and Monster in the Outfield, in which the blue hai ... [read more]

La riedizione integrale del celebre fumetto porno di Magnus, Necron, ha suscitato negli ultimi anni un costante interesse da parte della critica francese. Due esempi: per ActuaBD, Francois Boudet per Du9, JessieB Filed under: fumetti it ... [read more]

Of related interest...  Call for Proposals Giving Birth to Greatness: Pulp Fiction as Genesis of Genius Pulp Studies Area Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association National Conference San Antonio, TX April 20-23, ... [read more]

There’s a roundtable going on at The Comics Journal, about the Best American Comics Criticism anthology. I wrote a little bit about it a few weeks ago. So far, the entries (six at this point), are oddly divided into contributors (Ben Sc ... [read more]

Inside Higher Ed has an article on professors at business schools using comics or graphic novels to teach business concepts. [read more]

I admit it, I have a pretty sweet job. Among the paper writing, class teaching, and data gathering (all fun), it is true that at least a portion of my time is devoted to reading comics. A lot of comics. I end up combing through hundreds ... [read more]

I'm currently a nominee for the Executive Board of ALAN, the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, a very active and thriving subgroup of NCTE that ,among other things, publishes The ALAN Review, a journal which I recently guest-edited. [read more]

Jetzt bin ich doch wirklich bei Nummer zehn angekommen und habe es geschafft, jeden Freitag hier was Neues zu schreiben. Ein kleiner Erfolg für mich, auch wenn ich gemerkt habe, wie schwer es ist, am einzelnen Panel festzuhalten und den ... [read more]

Press release: [read more]

Just too awesome not to share....(Possibly not safe for work). Um... how to tie this to comics and literacy? Here's a video of the singer's object of admiration saying he learned to read and write from reading comics! [read more]

Ben Bova's words on graphic novels, graphica adaptations of print works, and the "decline" of literacy are making the Interweb rounds. And, believe it or not, he's being called out for his shortsightedness and lack of evidence supportin ... [read more]

Nachdem der Markt für Manga an vielen Stellen gesättigt erscheint und ihn auch deutsche Eigenproduktionen bevölkern, finden endlich auch Werke von Mangaka wie Inio Asano ihren Platz. In diesem Fall ist es der Münchener Schreiber & Leser ... [read more]

This Thursday, I'll be a guest (possibly the guest along with Alex Buchet) on the Wisconsin Public Radio show Here on Earth, for an episode entitled "The Adventures of Tintin." That's right, the world-famous Belgian boy reporter gets hi ... [read more]

A friend of mine and fellow grad student in the Tufts Psychology Department (Mike Slepian) recently had a paper come out that's been getting some press lately. Interestingly enough, it relates to the common cartoony emblem of the lightb ... [read more]

As reported on the Comics Scholars Discussion List, The Contemporary Brazilian Literature Study Group of the University of Brasilia, Brazil, is holding its first Meeting of Graphic Novels Studies on September 2nd. For more information ... [read more]

Last weekend I spent a day set-up at the Philadelphia Alternative ComicCon. My first time having a table at any kind of comic event. I thought I’d write a bit about the experience, to try to parse out how I really felt about the whole t ... [read more]

Here are the latest new and revised ComicsResearch.org bibliography entries. As always, we've also been correcting old links and adding new ones throughout the website. If you have suggestions or would like to contribute reviews, please ... [read more]

Marvel has done so much so well over the last twenty years, or since Joe Quesada got the title belt, that there is too much to praise. But, I think whoever replied to "Our readership is getting older. How the hell do we keep ourselves a ... [read more]

É amanhã, ali para os lados do Alqueva, a uns doze quilómetros da barragem, mais quilómetro menos quilómetro, na cidade de Moura, que é inaugurada, por volta das 18H, mais minuto menos minuto, uma exposição de Banda Desenhada portuguesa ... [read more]

Wouldn't you love a full-sized poster of this image for your classroom? I added the letters and the MP logo at the bottom and cropped the title art from the front cover and put it in the top left. When my co-author Erik A. Evensen, who ... [read more]

Soeben erreicht uns folgender Hinweis auf eine Preisauslobung der Roland Faelske-Stiftung und der Arbeitsstelle für graphische Literatur an der Universität Hamburg: [read more]