Comic-Con International has posted its programming schedule for the convention’s first day, Thursday. If you’ve never gone before, you should know that you can’t just stroll up to the programming show and catch a panel as it’s starting. You have to line up — for hours, if it’s in Hall H. So it’s best to [...]
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A college student with an obscure interdisciplinary major might do well to consider the influence of the Japanese principle of mono no aware on video games. The phrase is difficult to translate, and it’s rendered variously as “sensitivity to things” or “sensitivity to ephemera.” It describes a certain wistfulness in art, an awareness of [...] Associate Professor Stefane August, Brooding Mentor Dream Boat I’ve just started reading The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll, and at about 75 pages in, I knew I needed to come up with a counterpart to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the effervescent ingenue who brings magic to the life of some world-weary boring [...] My latest Life in Comics column is up at Publishers Weekly. It’s about what happens when Team Comics turns into Angry Mob Comics. Tweet Recently, some members of the comic book community were called out by MSNBC commentator Lawrence O’Donnell for a comic strip depicting Michelle Obama scarfing down hamburgers and bullying her husband. The strip is part of a series called “Obama Nation” by James Hudnall and Batton Lash, published on Andrew Breitbart’s site Big Hollywood. O’Donnell’s outrage [...] |
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After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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