• Just an amuse-bouche this week:   more image than text, more pleasure-taking than critique. Can an image take your breath away?  Here are a [...]

  Can a (comics) image take your breath away?

  May 23, 2013
• Do you teach nonfiction comics?  In which discipline(s)?  My biannual comics course—heavy on nonfiction—is offered as a cross-listed [...]

  What is a responsible and responsive method for situating nonfiction comics in their historico-political context(s)?

  April 11, 2013
• I have just finished reading The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Judith Halberstam’s refreshing, clever, and perambulatory exploration of [...]

  What is the Relationship between New Comics and Alternative Politics Today?

  January 31, 2013
• Welcome to the 2nd entry in the PPP RRR (PencilPanelPage Round Robin Retrospective), our special five-part series acknowledging the one-year [...]

  Which is Adrielle’s Favorite Post by Michael?

  December 20, 2012

• Before I found the rich vein of comics, many other text/image combinations and relationships captivated me:  advertisements, tarot cards, the [...]

  Is Comics Scholarship Ekphrasis?

  November 8, 2012
• Last week, my departmental colleague, Ed Wiltse, invited Stephen Shapiro, cultural critic at the University of Warwick, UK, to give a campus talk [...]

  Adapting Comics: Translation, Hypertext, Intertext, New Text or Something Else Altogether?

  September 27, 2012