Comic Books

December 28, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #205

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #205 by Drew Barth Observation I’ve never been able to work in a cafe. There’s always something about the noise and the continual threat of someone wanting to talk or look at whatever I’m working on. But then others can get something more from the feeling of being… Continue reading

Autobiography, Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

December 21, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #204: Long Road to Somewhere

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #204 by Drew Barth Long Road to Somewhere Most journey narratives end with our protagonists returning home with the splendors of treasure, knowledge, or both to an adoring hometown crowd that celebrates the transformation they’ve undergone in the time they’ve been away. That home is the root—the place… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

December 15, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #203

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #203 by Drew Barth A Kind of Truth Some comics get meta. How many time has Grant Morrison appeared in one of their stories at this point? Injecting a bit of our reality into the universe of a comic is a fun way to approach character interactions. Some… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, History

Gospel, Holley McKend, Will Morris

December 8, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #202: Print Preservation

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #202 by Drew Barth Print Preservation Like when VHS was being fazed out in favor of DVDs, some comics and graphic novels have fallen through the digitization crack. Stories that have gained either a cult status or were just forgotten about will find themselves confined to their original… Continue reading

Comic Books

November 23, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #200: The Story of a Story of a Story

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #200 by Drew Barth The Story of a Story of a Story Oh, hey, two hundred of these articles. Neat-o. Anyway, let’s talk about King Arthur. Or a couple versions of King Arthur. There’s a few when you think about it enough. Where did his sword come from?… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

Dan Mora, Ed Dukeshire, Kieron Gillen, Once & Future, Tamra Bonvillain

November 16, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #199: Two Perspectives Here Before You

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #199 by Drew Barth Two Perspectives Here Before You If there’s a medium that can use its visuals to their fullest extent when representing characters, it’s comics. There are only so many ways for film to show a person—but the face doesn’t change much without hours in the… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

November 9, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198: Cat Time

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198 by Drew Barth Cat Time How much time do we actually have? We sleep, roughly, eight hours and work for an additional nine. But then we have overtime and all the preparations for getting to work and the chores we need to deal with to keep our… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

November 5, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #196: Damned If You Don’t

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #196 by Drew Barth Damned If You Don’t Although the spooky season will soon close, ghosts and demons flow through the pages of comics—even the ones that Fredric Wertham thought would jump out and murder children—a proudly ignominious tradition. Today, we have a new spookier series releasing in Damn… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Horror

October 19, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #195: Legendary Status

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #195 by Drew Barth Legendary Status The Spook season isn’t just for the ghosts, goblins, and skeletons we’re all used to seeing stalk the streets on Halloween night, it’s for the legends that accompany them. Much of the aesthetic we associate with spooks comes from the folklore and… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Horror, manga

October 13, 2022

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #194: Creep Along

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #194 by Drew Barth Creep Along I hate the comics code. You hate the comics code. We all hate the comics code. Beside the general sanitization of comics in the 50s and Fredric Wertham clutching his pearls so hard his face turned purple, the code caused the cancellation… Continue reading

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