Continuing from the post from last week about poems becoming like comics, this week I want to look at comics becoming like poems. What makes a poem a poem? Definitions are notoriously difficult, mostly due ...
The connection between comics and poetry has been made several times by several very smart people. “{Comics] are also a kind of poetry, an incantation beckoning us to enter their world. The simplicity of their ...
Check it out here. I’d put this on any “best of 2021” list that I was putting together.
The first panel of my little memoir comic “Bullies” presents an array of comics characters that I was into when I first started reading comics. I still have almost all of these comics (except from ...
As I was working on Lounger, I was also creating little reflective pieces about my childhood. I have now gathered these explorations all together into a 32-page comic. They don’t compose a linear memoir, but ...
My short comic about trying to avoid superheroes for three decades is up. It’s called “Bullies” and includes a panel about the crazy days of The Comics Journal message board. Here’s the link: http://www.nijomu.com/comics/bullies/
Human beings prefer the progressive linear narrative. We like to tell ourselves stories where events start at a single origin point and progress towards their present, evolved endpoint. For many years in popular culture, people ...
I just discover that episode 305 of the Rabbitt Stew Comics podcast has a review of Lounger. They review issue one which appeared on ComiXology. My favorite line in the review: “a story about the ...
I have been chosen to be a featured artist at the 53rd International Visual Literacy Association conference. The theme this year is “Seeing Across Disciplines.” The conference kicks off tomorrow with the bulk of the ...
Just in time for Halloween, the printed graphic novel of Lounger is here and ready to order. The book is 144 pages and full color. You can order in from me here: http://www.nijomu.com/books/lounger/ I made ...
