Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #76: Visual Remix
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #76 by Drew Barth Visual Remix Reframing and recontextualizing has been a staple of art since there have been more than two things to mash together. Remixes and found poetry exist as prime examples of how different works can come together to create something inherently different. And this… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #75: A Different Kind of Horror
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #75 by Drew Barth A Different Kind of Horror Some old buildings emit a sense of what happened in that building decades prior, echoes of the people who called that building home. What was familiar and known morphs into something sinister. A work like BTTM FDRS by Ezra… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #74: Return to the City Enduring
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #74 by Drew Barth Return to the City Enduring Things are getting back to normal—for comic publishing. Series are coming out once again and the month’s schedules are filling out with series returns and delayed beginnings. But things aren’t normal, not anymore. Every day we have to contend… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #73
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #73 by Drew Barth Family Stories Many of our best stories come from our families—I always break out the one about my great-grandparents bottling liquor for Capone during Prohibition—and those are the stories that stay with us the longest. They’re the stories that are told through our childhoods… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #72: Ludoctratic Dissidents
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #72 by Drew Barth Ludoctratic Dissidents I would like to, if I may, talk about the absurd. There is much in comics that can be considered absurd: sun-powered aliens, living trash, a gang leader who might be a crocodile, etc. We’ve become accustomed to oddity at its highest… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #71: A Short Piece on ShortBox
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #71 by Drew Barth A Short Piece on ShortBox Founded by Zainab Akhtar, ShortBox is continually the name that comes up for me when I think about where comics can go both as a place self-expression as well as a physical medium. I’ve written about their most recent… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break our Heart #70: Page Scrolling
Comics Are Trying to Break our Heart #70 by Drew Barth Page Scrolling One of the biggest challenges for comics over the past decade has been digital presentation. Even with guided readers and motion comics, there hasn’t been a solid way for readers to comfortably read comic and manga pages electronically. Outside of larger tablets,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #69: Going Back to Green
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #69 by Drew Barth Going Back to Green As comics are still getting set back up from Diamond Distributors’ pause during the COVID crisis, it still helps to dive into what we already have laying in our to-be-read piles. I’m finally getting mine into the lower end of… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #68: Post-Friday
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #68 by Drew Barth Post-Friday It’s the final Wednesday in this April that has felt like it’s lasted maybe a week, and we are getting reports that Diamond Distributors will begin shipping again come May 20th. But in this interim, other avenues for distribution have opened. DC has… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #67: Deep Time
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #67 by Drew Barth Deep Time It’s about mid-way to Halloween, so you know what that means: it’s time to talk about ghosts. The history of ghosts in comic fiction is long, storied, and paved with some of the best characters the medium has to offer. Everything from… Continue reading
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