David Auerbach
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Continuity as Commodity and Fetish
Sherlock Holmes, Marvel Comics, and Doctor Who: three versions of continuity and their problems. The symbiotic relationship between creators and fans yields a false god.
Otto Dix’s War Sketches
I was lucky enough to see the exhibit of Otto Dix’s paintings in Montreal last year. I previously thought of him as one of the weaker expressionists, being too unsubtle even by their standards (check ...
Blumenberg’s Metaphorology
Two new Hans Blumenberg books are out in English translation, both short: Paradigms for a Metaphorology (and Care Crosses the River (1987). The second one is more aphoristic than anything else I’ve read by him ...
Jules Feiffer: Backing Into Forward, A Memoir
There is no mention of I Want to Go Home in this book.1 Tantrum ____________________ 1 As much as I love Feiffer’s drawing, The Great Comic Book Heroes, and Little Murders, there has always seemed ...
Christmas Cheer from Carl Barks and Donald Duck
A few happy memories from childhood, courtesy of the most fatalistic comic books ever written for children. First a bit from a censored story, “Silent Night,” written in 1945 but never published until 1981: The ...
R. Sikoryak’s Masterpiece Comics
I’ve been reading Sikoryak’s parodies in one form or another since I was a teenager and saw “Good Ol’ Gregor Brown” (Charlie Brown does Kafka) in RAW. Finally they’ve been collected into a book. Here ...
Philip Guston
Just saw his drawings at the Morgan. I have an affection for him that I don’t for most of his generation because Art Spiegelman plugged him in an issue of The Comics Journal that I ...