Issue 1, Summer 2009

The Comics Decoder

Panels Unravelled, Cartoons Exhumed

Issue 1, Summer 2009

Webs in Lynch's Closet? / R. W. Watkins

Watkins explores uncanny similarities between David Lynch's Blue Velvet and the early Amazing Spider-Man

Because it's the comics story of 2009 so far...

The Long-awaited Watchmen Movie: Two Different Takes / Joe Griffin, Ben Rockwood

Of Definition and Repetition:

The Problem of Ambiguity in Understanding Comics / R. W. Watkins

Watkins dares take aim at Scott McCloud's sacred cow

Because a film version is due out soon (and besides, a first edition would simply seem empty without some Charles Burns)...

Two Reviews of Burns's Black Hole / Geof Huth, R. W. Watkins

Rising From the Ashes:

An Examination of the Role of Mythology in Shaping Comics, and Vice Versa / R. W. Watkins

An old 4th-year sociology paper dating from Watkins's university days, resurrected and updated for your enlightenment

About this issue's contributors...

Brief bios with pics

The Funnies

Kurt Beaulieu's Sabine, Dennis Hyer's Inhuman Relations (3 installments), R. W. Watkins's A Dark Glimpse,

Mike White's Pigtails & Potbellies (10 installments), R. W. Watkins's Unlawful Disposals

Sabine by Kurt Beaulieu

Inhuman Relations by Dennis Hyer

A Dark Glimpse by R. W. Watkins

Pigtails & Potbellies by Mike White

Unlawful Disposals by R. W. Watkins