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It is neither a new nor a culturally specific idea that art is created through suffering: that the figure of the artist is an individual who must experience great ordeals in order to accomplish his…
Source: On the Art and Cycle of Proper Suffering: The Artist-Figure in Phoenix: Karma
The next segment of The Sandman Overture Issue #1 doesn’t have a very auspicious beginning. Pages twenty-five and twenty-six open up into a spread with Morpheus flying towards his Castle and his Dreaming kingdom: now…
Source: Flowers, Fire, and Dreams in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Overture #1, Part 3
In the next part of The Sandman Overture Issue #1, we now get to focus on Morpheus’ tools in trade: dreams. After transitioning to page fourteen, what we have waiting for us is something that…
Source: Flowers, Fire, and Dreams in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Overture #1, Part 2
An overture is traditionally the opening or introduction to an opera. Yet if anything in the past twenty-five or so years of the comics medium can be compared to an opera–as a masterpiece made up…
Source: Flowers, Fire, and Dreams in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Overture #1
In the comics medium, a spread is usually an image that takes up two or more pages in both volume and sheer scope. That is what most fans and comics scholars would first think when…
Source: Sharing the Love From Ground Zero: Spread by Justin Jordan and Kyle Strahm
Julian Darius, in a response to a comment of mine in his article “On Underworld Unleashed, Precursor to Kingdom Come” explains that Reconstructionism with regards to the superhero comics genre is a term coined by…
Source: Revisionism Comes to a Silver Age: Or Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?
In Parts I and II, we looked at the influences and aesthetics of Kris Straub’s Broodhollow as well as the stories that led to its creation respectively. But now, we move away from considerations of…
Source: The Stitching Together of a Mythos: Kris Straub’s Broodhollow Part 3
When we last left off in Part I, we were looking at the beginnings of Broodhollow: at its possible horror and comic influences and how its aesthetics is centred around the exploration and fear of…
Source: The Stitching Together of a Mythos: Kris Straub’s Broodhollow Part 2
It’s a rare thing to watch a reality in the process of its own formation. It’s like observing a building being created row by row: block by block. But in this case it’s more like…
Source: The Stitching Together of a Mythos: Kris Straub’s Broodhollow
Continued from part one. At some point in the superhero trope, the hero has to start building on the foundation of their training and perfecting their powers. For Shirou, this results in the mangling of…
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