A review blog of new comics and graphic novels by writer, professor, and comics scholar Jessica Baldanzi
Originally published on GoshenCommons.org October 29, 2013
We’ve been discussing color comics almost exclusively, so I’ll start this review with the only color pictures in the book, so you don’t feel like Dorothy returning to colorless Kansas. Here are the cover and inside cover of “Marble Season,” by Gilbert Hernandez:
Continue reading “Childhood in Black and White: ‘Marble Season,’ by Gilbert Hernandez”
Originally published on GoshenCommons.org October 14, 2013
Food and cooking always figure prominently within comics. Even Scott McCloud’s classic comic about comics—his theoretical work “Understanding Comics”—uses a cooking scene to illustrate the powers unique to the genre:
Originally published on GoshenCommons.org September 30, 2013
Last post I finished my review of Chris Ware’s “Building Stories” by arguing its place in North American visual history. This week, something much lighter, but not to be underestimated: “Love in Yop City.”
Continue reading “Zoinks! Ten Storylines! “Aya: Love in Yop City””
