Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #81: Pros of Cons
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #81 by Drew Barth Pros of Cons Due to the steady spike in COVID cases across the country and the villainous ineptitude at the federal level, our lives are still rather sporadic. While many services and businesses are forced to open unnecessarily, conventions have been canceled or delayed… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #80
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #80 by Drew Barth I Won’t Make a Duran Duran Joke Graphic memoirs are one of the most important genres within comics. The interplay between memory and picture can resonate immediately with readers and allows them to better witness the past. And recently, no other graphic memoir has… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #79: Take It To the Banks
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #79 by Drew Barth Take it to the Banks I’ve mentioned them briefly before, but TKO is doing something different with monthly comics. Instead of waiting for trade paperbacks while a monthly series comes out, they opt to publish the entire story at once either in a collected… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #78: Looking Inward
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #78 by Drew Barth Looking Inward There is absolute precision in Gabriella Giandelli’s lines. When we look at a work like Interiorae, we find the best of Giandelli’s aesthetic: panel by panel of precise lines and a focus on compassion unlike anything else in comics. Interiorae is about a single… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying To Break Your Heart #77: This Cannot Continue
Comics Are Trying To Break Your Heart #77 by Drew Barth This Cannot Continue If you haven’t heard yet, there has been quite a lot in comics these past couple weeks. Revelations about men in the industry using their power to manipulate and abuse women was brought to a fresh light two weeks ago by… Continue reading
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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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