Issue 2, Spring 2011
The Comics Decoder
Panels Unravelled, Cartoons Exhumed
Issue 2, Spring 2011
Poetry and Comics / Lorraine Schein
Ms. Schein's complete thesis on the often shakey relationship between the two art forms
And speaking of poetry and comics...
Four Poems Inspired by the Comics / Artie Gold, Lorraine Schein, Bianca Stone, R. W. Watkins
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, A Review / Robin S. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Fabulous? Flop? Fiasco? Dr. Rosenberg's take on what is probably the comics story of recent months
So you want to be a superhero (or supervillain)?
Watkins sheds some realistic light on the usual routes to superdom in this chapter from his experimental novel-in-progress, Continued After Next Page...
Catalysts of Origin / R. W. Watkins
Because there's always room for some Charles Burns coverage...
Review: X'ed Out by Charles Burns / Rob Wells
Harvey Pekar: A Great Man is Dead / Abraham Kurp
Mr. Kurp's thoughts on the great writer-curmudgeon's recent passing
Beauty & The Beast and King Kong Archetypes in Classic Spider-Man / R. W. Watkins
Another old paper dating from Mr. Watkins's university years. He's completely baffled as to how he scored a 10/10 on this one
About this issue's contributors...
Brief bios with pics
ARCHIVE
The Funnies
Bianca Stone's A Poetry Comic, Dennis Hyer's Mullein Fields (4 installments), Bill Harvey's The Odds (3 installments),
Rob Wells's Rude Birds of Britain, Kurt Beaulieu's Sabine, R. W. Watkins's A Dark Glimpse,
Rob Wells's The Spidey Variations (3 installments)
A Poetry Comic by Bianca Stone
Mullein Fields by Dennis Hyer
The Odds by Bill Harvey
Rude Birds of Britain by Rob Wells
Sabine by Kurt Beaulieu
A Dark Glimpse by R. W. Watkins (with apologies to E. R. Cruz)
The Odds by Bill Harvey
The Spidey Variations by Rob Wells
The Odds by Bill Harvey
