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Month: December 2018

Traces of lives on geographies

I’ve been skirting around W.G. Sebald for years. I read The Rings of Saturn, as I suspect many people have … More

Vertigo, W.G. Sebald

Only connect…

This short comic by Sophia Foster-Dimino is about relationships. ‘Relationships’ is such a debased and overused word that it has … More

creator owned comics, Did You See Me?, Shortbox Comics, Sophia Foster-Dimino

Witness borne

It’s hard to know what to do about something like the Armistice centenary; at a hundred years it’s getting quite … More

Brothers in Arms, Charley's War, Charley's War: Brother's in Arms, Joe Colquhoun, Pat Mills

Decoratively knowable

Monstress is really getting cracking now. Volume Three: Haven is clearly still well within the originary story arc, without any … More

Marjorie Liu, Monstress, Monstress Vol.3, Sana Takeda

Making space

I funded this wonderful independent project on [insert name of well-known pre-funding site], and then when the slim volume arrived … More

Annie Mok, Claire Napier, Comics & Cola, comics criticism, Critical Chips, David Brothers, JA Micheline, Joe McCulloch, Juliet Kahn, Kelly Kanayama, Kim O'Connor, Whit Taylor, Zainab Akhtar

The temporary truths of moving targets

The sociologist and social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is one of those (many) writers and thinkers to whose ideas I have … More

Cecile Deer, Cheryl Hardy, Dan Schubert, Derek Robbins, Karl Maton, Michael Grenfell, Nicholas Crossley, Patricia Thomson, Pierre Bourdieu, Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts, Robert Moore, Steve Fuller
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