GNARP! The Graphic Narrative Academic Reference Project

Shows the process of making a comic - in this case, The Guild by Felicia Day (previously a web video series).

Table of Contents, Introduction, and excerpts from The Best American Comics Criticism 2010 (Fantagraphics). Whether you choose to call them "comics lit," "graphic novels," or just "thick comic books," book-length narratives told in words and pictures confidently elbowed their way into the cultural spotlight in the first decade of this new millennium - beginning with the simultaneous 2001 release of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Daniel Clowes' David Boring, and continuing on through ground-breaking and best-selling works such as Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Robert Crumb's Genesis, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, and Joe Sacco's Palestine. This renaissance in turn brought forth a chorus of critical commentary that not only addressed these recent works, but also initiated a much-needed look back at the previous century's neglected and forgotten masterpieces. This chorus, as presented in The Best American Comics Criticism, comprises both criticism (Douglas Wolk on Frank Miller and Will Eisner, Robert C. Harvey on Fun Home, Donald Phelps on Steve Ditko and Phoebe Gloeckner) and history (David Hajdu on the 1950s comic-book burnings, Jeet Heer on Gasoline Alley, Ben Schwartz on Little Orphan Annie, Gerard Jones on the birth of the comic-book business), as well as revelatory peer-on-peer essays by novelists (Jonathan Franzen on Peanuts, John Updike on James Thurber) and cartoonists (Chris Ware on Rodolphe Töpffer, Clowes on Mad's Will Elder, and Seth on John Stanley).

"Area 10 tells the story of NYPD Detective Adam Kamen as he investigates a series of brutal murders. The killer has caught the media's attention, having been given the moniker "Henry the Eighth" as all of the victims are found headless. ... A good chunk of the story centers around trepanation, a practice dating back thousands of years that involves drilling holes into the skull of a live human."

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In the Gateway to Comics feature, Stephen Aryan focuses on reviewing/recapping a "gateway" trade or issue to a genre, series, or character. Meaning you will be able to pick it up without having read any other comic before, and with no prior knowledge of the characters. This is the golden rule. (A lot of these gateway picks will be first volumes of trades, but not always.) He tackles a range of genres, such as western, sci-fi, slice of life, horror, adventure, biography, comedy, history, and many more.

SPX 2010 will be held the weekend of September 10 and 11, 2010 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, MD, just one mile outside the nation's capital, Washington DC. In its fifteenth year SPX now serves as the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comic books and the discovery of new creative talent.

The stage version of The Intergalactic Nemesis projects the comic book artwork panel-by-panel while three actors perform the voices, one foley artist creates the sound effects, and one keyboardist plays the score, all live.

Don Jackson teaches "the art of sequential storytelling" as a constructivist pedagogical method to help students develop higher-order thinking skills. His "Cognitive Comics" approach grew from Jackson's original enterprise of developing interactive multi-media comics for promoting literacy in teaching English comprehension.

Over the last twenty years or so comic books and video games have been adapted in to movies. Novels have been adapted into comic books. Many of these products have been licensed as toys. Indeed two Singaporeans are actively engaged in such adaptations: Sonny Liew is working on a comic book version of Jane Austin's novel Sense and Sensibility for Marvel Comics, and Eric Khoo is doing a film adaptation of Yoshihiro Tatsumi comic A Drifting Life. Increasing there are convergences between media forms and products. This conference held in conjunction with the Singapore Toys, Games and Comics Convention examines the issues involved in these developments from a scholarly perspective with a focus on Asia.

Article outlining some problems with the Japanese animation industry.