Jugend
A quick look at the magazine Jugend, especially its sequential art.
History
Kango Takamura – an uncollected graphic novel
For the past few years, I have been volunteering at Manzanar National Historic Site with my family. We usually stay in the town of Independence, which has an incredible little museum, The Eastern California Museum. ...
Life? Or Theatre? By Charlotte Salomon – Pages M004237, M004245, and M004300
As I mentioned before, Life? or Theatre? tells the story of Charlotte Salomon’s family, keeping the given names but changing the surnames. So far, I took us through the first hundred pages which cover the ...
Life? Or Theatre? By Charlotte Salomon – Introduction and pages M004179 and M004211
The rise of the graphic novel is intimately, and of course tragically, tied to the Second World War. If we consider the book that broke through and captured a wider audience and showed the reading ...
Prehistoric Word Balloons – “Speech-Breath”
I was reading a little article in Archaeology Magazine and learned that archaeologists now believe that prehistoric cave painters attempted to incorporate graphic depictions of sound into some of their works. The earliest example comes ...
The lineup in “Bullies”
The first panel of my little memoir comic “Bullies” presents an array of comics characters that I was into when I first started reading comics. I still have almost all of these comics (except from ...
The 80s Never Loved You Back
When you love the 80s, you are loving the executives who manipulated you into caring about things that they themselves had no respect for. You are celebrating your abuse.
contaminated water and alcohol
This is a bit of a spoiler for my story Lounger, so fair warning. A few weeks ago, I was reading Edward Tufte’s excellent book Envisioning Explanations (shout out to libraries!), and in the first ...
The Prehistory of the Graphic Novel – Revised
Based on some suggestions via Twitter and email, here is an updated list of books that could be classified as graphic novels, but that were published before the term was coined. Special thanks to Steve ...
The Prehistory of the Graphic Novel
Whatever the term “graphic novel” actually means, it is one that rose to mainstream use in the 1980s. But most people seem to agree that the term was first applied in 1978 to Will Eisner’s ...