“There’d Be a Hanging!” – Spontaneous Authenticity and the Fluctuative Quality of Comic Art in Gilbert Hernandez’s “Human Diastrophism”
Exploring how NYC grafitti and Gilbert Hernandez seek to DESTROY ALL LINES.
The (re)Collection Agency #9: A Conversation with Michael Sharp
In the 9th installment of our series of talks with comics scholars and teachers, we talk to Dr. Michael Sharp about what crossword puzzles and comic strips have in common, being a late comer to Marvel Comics, and the 1980s through the prism of Bloom County.
The (re)Collection Agency #7: A Conversation with Brannon Costello
The seventh in our series of conversations with comics scholars. Dr. Brannon Costello discusses his new book on Howard Chaykin, serial monomania, and how relatively radical stuff can happen in a What If? comic.
Mo’ Meta News: How Collecting Shapes The Middle Spaces
As the year ends, let’s look to 2018 and beyond by considering how comic book collecting and critical nostalgia shape The Middle Spaces blog.
The (re)Collection Agency #5: A Conversation with Andréa Gilroy
The fifth in our conversations with comics scholars. This time with Dr. Andrea Gilroy, discussing how the tensions between image and text in comics reflect the messiness of identity, and how Ninja Turles and picture bibles might lead to being a comics scholar.
The Pleasure of the Serial Comic Book
Thinking about the bliss of the incomplete comic book serial.
La Lucha Femenina: Women Wrestlers in Jaime Hernandez’s Locas
Luchadoras and the elasticity of gender in queered spaces.
The International Comics Art Forum 2016
An overview of the 2016 International Comics Art Forum conference in Columbia, SC.
On Collecting Comics & Critical Nostalgia
Identity is a constant retcon.
