Comics
Subject forum for ART317
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Web links
ComicsResearch.org
This web site has been developed by Dr Gene Kannenburg of the University of Houston. It is an annotated bibliography of sources relating to all aspects of comics. While mostly listing text sources, there are links to web sites in the section on cartoonists and a section for other links of interest.
Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Virtual Museum & Encyclopedia©
This web site has been developed by a comics dealer. It contains a history of American comics, a large selection of biographies of comic book artists and many images in the "Museum" section. Every page contains illustrations.
The Comics Journal
The online version of The Comics Journal. Those who are particularly interested in comics will find interesting material in the archives. Be prepared to "dig".
Key examples
Winsor McCay
This page is from a web site developed by a dealer in illustrated books. It contains an illustrated essay on Winsor McCay which draws on John Canemaker's 1987 biography Winsor McCay: His Life and Art.
A Brief Biography of Winsor McCay
The Man Behind Maus
This site contains the transcript of a 1992 interview with Art Spiegelman. The interview is brief but touches on some of the issues that have influenced Spiegelman's work.
Art Spiegelman: Lips
This interview with Art Spiegelman is taken from The Boston Book Review. In this interview Spiegelman discusses the relationship between text and illustration in some of his work and also talks about Maus at some length.
Art Spiegelman and Maus
Lecture notes by Wally Hastings, a professor of English Northern State University, Aberdeen in the USA.
Bookmaking interlude 6
Stick and elastic band book
The stick and elastic band book is so simple that it hardly needs instructions. It has been included because its low-tech approach seems compatible with the production methods used for early comics. The limitation of this method is that (like many Japanese binding methods) the book does not open flat. This can be compensated for to some extent by using lightweight paper and by making the book in a landscape format. Any number of things could be used for the stick and the general principle can be adapted to use non-elastic materials in place of the elastic band.
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