Everyone’s talking about Before Watchmen, the seven Watchmen prequel miniseries announced by DC this week. As with pretty much everything in the world of comics, opinions are divided and being fiercely argued where anyone will listen—and even places where they won’t. (The Beat and ComicsAlliance round up the serious and snide reactions.) I guess...
My colleague and friend, Scott Timcke, recently posed a challenge on twitter to list five "key books" in communication studies. This can't be a "best of" list, though, as the field of communication is too broad and/or balkanized for any five books to be...
I just finished Charles Hatfield’s new book, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, which is the latest addition to the University Press of Mississippi’s “Great Comics Artists” series. I’m not a Kirby expert or acolyte, though I’ve always appreciated the manic,...
Some findings from my research are now available. If you are reading this from a computer with institutional access, then you can check out my newly released article from The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, “The Android’s Dungeon: Comic-bookstores, Cultural Spaces, and the...
It’s been a little while since my last update, so I thought it might be time for another … Lightning Round. *** I’ve embarked on yet another facelift for the ol’ website. Expect some adjustments in the next little while. Of note, however, are two...