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I think Brown is addressing comics being mainstreamed as pop culture, as opposed to existing as a fringe subculture. I would suggest that the mining of comics as source material for films is probably a half-way decent indicator of that. But only one of several such indicators (coverage in the highly...

In a vaguely related vein, here's a piece by the CBC's popular culture columnist: Comics have become too respectable.

I don't agree with Brown by a long stretch here, but it's an interesting perspective on things.

Thanks for the kind words. It's really quite exciting to be getting back into webcomics after my three year hiatus.

Ben.

American Robots is a comic strip I've been drawing weekly for the newspaper at the university I've been attending. I've just gotten the archives on-line, and intend to start posting new comics again in a couple of weeks. http://www.borealism.com/cgi-bin/pywebcomic/view.cgi?series=1 The premise is ab...

The title of this section is comics theory, but what does "theory" mean?

What does theory mean to you -- in general and in relation to comics specifically? What might it look like? What do you hope to accomplish with it? What is its relation to practice?

Ben.

Is there a difference between structuring a work to fit within the limitations of a medium or form and compromising personal vision? I don't really think they're comparable, let alone opposite sides of some binary.

Ben.

Another way to test this thesis would be to find autobiographical/journal comics that include the physical McCloud and see if people draw him using the McCloud icon. If so, my thesis is basically wrong, because the icon just represents Scott himself, and so the idea of boundless comic knowledge is ...

Thanks for the link to Dreamhost, Jason. I was in the market for web space when I saw your post and have ended up signing up with them. I listed your site as a referrer, in case that does you any good.

Ben.

I've just posted two more essays on-line. They're not directly related to the topic of this thread, but I thought they might be of some interest to board readers and I didn't want to start a bunch of new vanity threads to put them up. Ghost World as Dialectic is about the Ghost World movie, but has ...

Yeah. Basically, I think there are two broad approached to creating a film based on a comic (and, perhaps, vice versa): adaptation and translation. Most of the films you mentioned are straight-up adaptations of content. Perhaps we might suggest the colour palette used in Spider-Man moves it slightly...

A film theory essay I wrote in the fall about the Hulk movie is on-line at my department's web site (forgive the slow load time; it drives us nuts, too, if that's any consolation). This essay sort of served as a starting point for the thesis I'm writing now, though if I were writing it again now, I ...

Well, someday I hope they'll call me "Doc" because of my academic credentials. In the meantime, though, they call me Doc because of the homebrew medicine I sell out of the back of my station wagon (<-- Dan & Ed super-old Adventure Hour joke).

What's going on? Grab my qlink e-mail address from my forum and drop me a line, eh? Still in Film. The thesis is about seeing what can be learned about comics from the apparatus theory paradigm in film studies, drawing on some film semiology and so forth. I've applied to grad school in communication...

Synecdoche, where abouts are you? I'm currently an undergrad at Queen's in the middle of applying to graduate school for next year, intending to study Canadian comics. Depending on how the honours thesis I'm writing right now turns out, I may submit it to ICAF or the CAC. But I'm not sure if it's go...

I'm trying to make out the text. "You are a [???] of a nasty Viking". Viking? That's not a very good insult.

Oh, there was a price, dag_yo. Why, we had to pay for Sir John A to travel all the way to Britain and ask.

well, i thought at first that canada was the heart bucket. a combination of the proximity to the star bucket and my own cultural egoism. but i have since realized that i must be mistaken. if it was canada, the heart bucket would have kittens of many colors. also, it might be bigger than the star bu...

If your grandfather was a Bolshevik, he probably didn't like being called a liberal much, eh? I always find it interesting how in USian political discourse, there are, like, all kinds of right wing you can be, but everything left of centre gets collapsed into "liberal". And that's hardly accurate, g...

Took the Politopia quiz (halfway between Jesse Jackson and FDR), but found it a bit more USian-centric than the other quizzes that have popped up in these discussions. For example, supporting nationalised healthcare puts you to the left on their quiz, but is essentially a centrist position here. And...

I think you're mixing up Cathy and Susan.

No question in my mind that it should be "Night of the Living Carl." This time around, every thread begins with the tombstone panel.

Yeah, I think so. At the very least, the sort of curving trails set it up as something of an analogue to Scott's version of Porphyria's Lover. I think it's quite interesting to see something more oriented towards poetic expression, especially given how many/most comics authors are drawing almost ent...

You may also want to try <a href=http://www.art-tutorials.com>Amalgamated Art Tutorials</a>. They haven't been particularly great at updating regularly, but there are some really talented folks who have put things up there.

Doc.

As another product or a variant of the book of collected strips--especially for content that relies on computers for its form--you could burn your material onto cds and sell those.

Doc.