Comic Books
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Gutter Space #10: Narration in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Gutter Space #10 by Leslie Salas Narration in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Many of the graphic novels that I’ve talked about so far on Gutter Space are missing something that Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, excels in: narration. And not just normal narration in captions—heavy narration. Narration that accompanies nearly every single panel.… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #9: Flashbacks in Will Eisner’s A Family Matter
Gutter Space #9 by Leslie Salas Flashbacks in Will Eisner’s A Family Matter We’re going a little bit old school this week by taking a look a cartooning legend Will Eisner’s A Family Matter. Before we jump in, I’m going to take a moment to be honest. As you can see by my previous Gutter Space… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #9: In Defense of Daredevil
Heroes Never Rust #9 by Sean Ironman In Defense of Daredevil Whenever I’m in a conversation about the worst superheroes, someone mentions Daredevil (him and Aquaman). I think much of this comes from the poor Mark Steven Johnson film starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. It’s not a great film, but there are far worse… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #8: Chris Claremont, I Miss You
Heroes Never Rust #8 by Sean Ironman Chris Claremont, I Miss You For the first time, I had no idea what I was going to write about. I have a list of blog post ideas in a spiral notebook, but none really grabbed me this week. Then, I received The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol. 1… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #7: Miracleman, or Why I Hate Lawyers
Heroes Never Rust #7 by Sean Ironman Miracleman, or Why I Hate Lawyers In the comic book field, as in many other fields, people rip each other off. Many comic book publishers have a version of a superhero that is similar to a character published by another company. Sometimes these characters are created at the… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #6: Women in Superhero Comics
Heroes Never Rust #6 by Sean Ironman Women in Superhero Comics I’m a white, heterosexual male. As such, I never really paid attention to how minorities are portrayed in superhero comics. I’m sure that sounds bad, but let’s be honest. Portrayals of minorities was never an issue for me because I was well-portrayed. And when… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #6: Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Gutter Space #6 by Leslie Salas The Mice Behind the Masks: Art Spiegelman’s Maus Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a framed narrative graphic novel in which the relationship between the author, Artie, and his father, Vladek, is exposed and intertwined with the author’s attempt to capture and relate his father’s experience as a persecuted Jew during… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #5: Cultural Respect
Superhero Comics In 2000, Bryan Singer’s X-Men hit theaters. It made almost $300 million off a $75 million budget. Two years later, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man earned over $800 million on a budget of $139 million. Once money starts getting made, people pay attention. Comics became cool. Sure, they had their followers in certain circles for… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #4: Worldbuilding in Megan Kelso’s Artichoke Tales
Gutter Space #4 by Leslie Salas Worldbuilding in Megan Kelso’s Artichoke Tales Worldbuilding—whether in graphic novels or prose novels—is the long and arduous task of creating and enriching social, cultural, and economic setting of a narrative. Worldbuilding is done best when it is invisible to the reader. When an author establishes a foreign setting through the… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #4: It’s a Bird!
Heroes Never Rust #4 by Sean Ironman It’s a Bird In 1938, Bugs Bunny was first shown in Porky’s Hare Hunt. The March of Dimes was created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat polio. The last reunion of the Blue and Gray commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. In a broadcast address… Continue reading
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