The Weary Blues
Twenty years ago, I was finishing my comics adaptation of the Langston Hughes poem “The Weary Blues.” The final page was completed on January 14, 2004. I remember that my goal was to replicate the ...
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Poetry and Comics: Comics Becoming Poems
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 ...
Poetry and Comics: Poems Becoming Comics
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 ...
A Meditation on Being
What is will be what was, Though yesterday was what will be. What you hope will be Must first be what isn’t. There is no gain without nothing. There is no loss that is not ...