Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #41: A Short Break
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #41 by Drew Barth A Short Break This week we’re going to take a break from the spooks—although there are some spooks in the comics I’m going to mention—and shift our focus to boxes. Everyone remembers Loot Crate from a couple years ago and the various comic-related paraphernalia… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #40: Another Master of Horror
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #40 by Drew Barth Another Master of Horror The spooks continue this week with a look at another creator whose work has kept me awake on more than one occasion: Junji Ito. His work has become synonymous with horror manga over the last fifteen years in the US.… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #39: Master of Horror
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #39 by Drew Barth Master of Horror Alex Toth as an artist and illustrator is an unsung masters of the medium. Toth strove to push the boundaries of what a comic could do in terms of creating panels, lines of sight, and use of shadows. Using simple black… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #38: Dipping Into Horror
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #38 by Drew Barth Dipping Into Horror It’s October this year, so you know what that means: thirteen months until the next presidential election. Also, Halloween—the best time of the year as a different kind of horror (finally) can grip our imaginations. From the ghosts, ghouls, and other… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #37: Much About Samurai and Mecha
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #37: Much About Samurai and Mecha Comics have always been political despite what some in the fandom scream on Twitter. If any singular creator’s work has enhanced the political in contemporary comics, it is writer Greg Pak. His work with Boom! Studios, like the series Ronin Island with Giannis… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #36: The Comeback
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #36 by Drew Barth The Comeback On rare occasions, comic series go on extended hiatuses before returning in a glorious fashion. Two such series—Warren Ellis and Jason Howard’s Trees and Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios’ Pretty Deadly—have each made a such return after three-year breaks. Launched in 2013,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #35: And Once Again
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #35 by Drew Barth And Once Again Five years. That’s how long Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, and Clayton Cowles have been creating The Wicked + The Divine. With that forty-fifth issue just being released this past week, it’s hard not to get nostalgic. Whether it was through… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #34: A Shorter Piece
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #34 by Drew Barth A Shorter Piece Many of the works discussed in this blog over the past months have been long-running series or graphic novels. And all of those have been great. There’s an expansiveness to many of those works. In a way, many of these series… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #33: No One’s Left
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #33 by Drew Barth No One’s Left I’ve talked about shonen manga a few times on here—both positively and negatively—but it’s hard to overstate the influence shonen as a genre has had on western comics. Many creators have talked about their love for the genre as younger kids… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #32: Fantasy House Party
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #32 by Drew Barth Fantasy House Party With the recent publication of DIE #6, I was reminded of another series that I had written about previously: Coda. With its examination of fantasy tropes and classic D&D character classes as starting points for exploring what fantasy is and what it… Continue reading
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