Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #98: November, November
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #98: November, November I’ve talked in the past about how much I love short blasts of story. There’s honestly little better to me than picking up a novella after a long novel. And what Matt Fraction, Elsa Charretier, Matt Hollingsworth, and Kurt Ankeny have crafted with the second… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #96: Energized and Anthologized Vol. 2
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #96 by Drew Barth Energized and Anthologized Vol. 2 All right, collective exhale. Un-clench your jaw. One immediate existential threat mitigated, many more to go. But this is where comics come in—we can have these moments to come together to create things and collectively take a second. It’s… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #95
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #95 by Drew Barth Afterward So. This is being written a few days before the 2020 election, so writing about comics at this point in time is like digging a ditch for the lava to go around Pompeii. But comics still happen, as does this article. But what do… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #94: Bad Island
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #94 by Drew Barth A Quiet Island Silence in a graphic novel is oppressive. We as readers must face the images directly. This directness is what we see throughout Stanley Donwood’s Bad Island. But his latest work is more than just a directness of images—it is a sweepingly… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #93: A Sunless Legacy
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #93 by Drew Barth A Sunless Legacy What is a legacy? In monthly comics, it’s usually a character taking up the mantle of a hero that has passed on or passed out of the popular lexicon. This new character dons the mask, the famous name, and the responsibilities… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #92: Hey, Demon, It’s Me, Ya Boy, Jason Blood
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #92 by Drew Barth Hey, Demon, It’s Me, Ya Boy, Jason Blood The creative force of Jack Kirby is the lifeblood of modern comics. His influence can be felt in every monthly comic coming from DC or Marvel and in nearly every superhero movie in this century. His… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #91: A Short Respite from Spooks
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #91 by Drew Barth A Short Respite from Spooks While it is the most wonderful time of the year for spooks, it’s also a wonderful time right now as the newest ShortBox has arrived in the mail. This edition of ShortBox is a little different as it is… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #90: The Spooks Begin Now
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #90 by Drew Barth The Spooks Begin Now There’s good horror comics out there right now—namely work like Something is Killing the Children and The Low, Low Woods—but it’s always good to see a new one beginning so close to Halloween. This year, we have one of Vault… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #89: A Legacy in Ink
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #89 by Drew Barth A Legacy in Ink Like a Kirby comic, you know exactly when you pick up a Kubert comic: direct storytelling and an expansive setting. These two qualities have become so ingrained in the language of comics since the 70s that it’s no wonder that… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #87: Looking At What’s There
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #87 by Drew Barth Looking At What’s There Abstraction is one of the key components of comics. Nothing we see on the page is real—we only ever see a representation of reality through an artist interpreting it. Comics are interesting since they can play with this abstraction and… Continue reading
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