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Comics to save your life + SECAC 2010
Daniel Clowes, final panel from "Art School Confidential" I’ve been interested in word & image issues for all of my academic career–basically since being an undergrad at the University of...
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Alice seen from the North East
There’s a work in the Tate Gallery called Britain Seen from the North by the sculptor Tony Cragg. In it, the familiar outline of England, Scotland and Wales is rotated anticlockwise ninety degrees,...
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Art of the Graphic Novel: A Visual Bibliography
I’m sometimes asked for graphic novel recommendations so–as a convenient response to this question–I thought I’d share the texts I’m teaching in my Art of the Graphic Novel class this Fall (2010). You...
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Quotoons or My Troubles with Cows
What’s a quotoon? It’s a meeting space for quotes and cartoons. It’s a quote disguised as a cartoon or vice versa. It’s a portmanteau word, which connects it to Lewis Carroll, which has to be good. I...
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Orpheus Redux
I’ve just been asked to write a short (2,000 word) essay about David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp (AP). I’m ridiculously excited by this prospect: AP is a beautiful book and one of my favourite...
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Student Work, Fall 2010
A few months ago, I blogged about the books we would be reading in my Art of the Graphic Novel class this fall. Â One eye-blink later, and it’s already the end of the semester. For their final...
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Objects of Perpetual Renewal
I’ve recently finished writing an encyclopedia entry about Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli’s award-winning graphic novel. (Warning: plot spoilers ahead!) There were, predictably, many aspects of the...
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Spidey’s (Art History) Sense
It was the fourth and last exam of the semester, so I was surprised to find a new (yet strangely familiar!) name on an answer sheet. Mr Parker ignored the first half of the test (multiple choice...
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Taking the Mickey: Censoring Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen”
[This post records my contribution to Banned Book Week, which was delivered at MSU’s Mitchell Library as part of a faculty read-out. My thanks to Rachel Cannady for the invitation and for organizing...
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Introducing Scott McCloud
One of the best things about being a professor? Getting to meet scholars, authors, and artists you’ve long admired. Cassie Hester: Scott McCloud Poster (based on art from McCloud’s Understanding...
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