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I Dream Of Dragons: Surrealism in Little Nemo

Posted onSeptember 15, 2022December 3, 2022 by jmarchet
A Little Nemo Comic in which a Dragon's mouth contains a throne; the dragon is like a car.

Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic by Winsor McCay, can be seen as the beginning […]

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Grimms’ Eeerie Garfield

Posted onSeptember 15, 2022September 15, 2022 by jwindsor

Grimm’s Fairy Tales-esque Halloween rendition of Garfield in a strikingly existential light

Posted inArticle, ComicTagged Garfield, halloween, horror, Jim Davis, newspaperLeave a Comment on Grimms’ Eeerie Garfield

The Great American (Graphic) Novel

Posted onSeptember 11, 2022 by lclark7

The Great American Novel (GAN) is a term often used to describe breakthrough literary works […]

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Nat Turner: A Story without words

Posted onDecember 7, 2020December 8, 2020 by lgeter
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Trauma and the Graphic Novel, Part 2: The Broken Mirror

Posted onNovember 13, 2020November 13, 2020 by cwehner

Content warning: discussions of trauma  In this second post on trauma in the books we’ve […]

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The Silence of Trauma

Posted onNovember 12, 2020 by cwehner

Content Warning: Discussion of trauma  One theme I’ve noticed that has been consistent across most, […]

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Where is the line drawn?

Posted onNovember 10, 2020 by pgiannin

TW: Sexual assault, violence As I was thinking about what I would write my blog […]

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility – How Spiderman Has Changed Throughout His Lifetime *Spoilers Ahead*

Posted onNovember 9, 2020December 8, 2020 by emadden

Spiderman was first published in the 1960s. It was then that he started to become […]

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The Impact of the Graphic Novel on a Trauma Narrative

Posted onOctober 30, 2020 by cvorholt
The cover of the graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby

The graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse, tells the story of Toland Polk, […]

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