Archive for March, 2007
When I class a post on this blog as ‘off-topic’ I do so with caution, as it’s probably far too early to dismiss anything as being ‘off-topic’. Jeet Heer, a Comics Journal forum user sent me back to an earlier post of mine about Will Alsop and Winsor McCay to point out something that I’d [...]
My thanks go to billym (another user of the Comics Journal forum) who put me on to another artist who work I recognise but I hadn’t thought to look into: Ben Katchor. The picture above is an frame from A Date in Architectural History, a strip by Katchor in the January 1999 issue of Metropolis [...]
Frequent is the architecture student’s cry of disbelief when someone recommends a building to him, only to find it’s one that he vaguely remembered seeing somewhere before, but which he never had the foresight to think of. Today’s star suggestion over on the Comics Journal message board came from user tapvd, who directed my [...]
The sun continues to shine convincingly on Strasbourg, and my days remain conveniently free of scheduled classes. During my last visit to Sheffield, Renata Tyszczuk recommended that I read Diana Periton’s essay The ‘Coupe Anatomique’: sections through the nineteenth century Parisian apartment block (in The Journal of Architecture, Autumn 2004 pp. 289 – 304). [...]
I’ll be in Paris 30 March – 2 May and Stuttgart 7 – 9 May. My earlier atttempt to solicit recommendations for comics book stores or libraries in Paris on the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree did not have that much success (“go to Brussels” being one particularly useless suggestion). If you have any suggestions for [...]
A not insignificant aspect of my interest in comics relates to storytelling. What makes a good story? Is it the story itself, or is it the way that you tell it? A mainstay of public radio in the USA and the UK, Garrison Keillor is surely one of America’s greatest living storytellers. His weekly radio [...]
Image: detail from Building Stories by Chris Ware
After a cold week with rain and snow here in Strasbourg, it was a joy to finally have a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon. Especially as I was slightly hungover and deprived of sleep. Nothing lifts the soul like a blue sky, cherry blossom trees and a gentle walk. [...]
This blog announced itself on the discussion forum of The Comics Journal today: a big hello and warm welcome to readers who followed the link, your thoughts and comments on any of the subjects posted here are greatly appreciated. Welcome also to the select group of friends, colleagues and acquaintances I emailed earlier this weekend. [...]
(a single page from Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware; click on the image to expand it)
Catching up on some articles on Chris Ware’s work that were referenced in other texts that I’m reading, I was particularly interested to read these analogies from Ware about the structure of the complex and non-liner nature of his graphic [...]
What better recommendation to find a certain book than personal recommendations from three different people. The words ‘architecture’ and ‘comics’ have directed me to a Belgian series called Les Cités Obscures by Benoît Peeters and François Shuiten . I have the first two albums and will write more shortly. Until then, this quote from co-author [...]
From an article in the French magazine L’Express (no. 2906, 15-21 March 2007) previewing a forthcoming architecture exhibition in Paris, I found this article and a comment on the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto.
“Cet architecte m’a toujours fait pense à Little Nemo et à cette BD [...]
In the process of reading Ogée & Meslay’s introduction to the Tate Britain Hogarth exhibition catalogue last night, my tired eyes leapt into life at the sight of this passage, which provoked some connections with Daniel Raeburn’s commentary on Chris Ware.
[A Rake's Progress and The Four Times of Day] confirmed his increasing mastey of the [...]
The image above is a detail of one of the images that initiated this project. It is the third instalment in a series of cartoon strips by the American artist Chris Ware that will eventually chronicle a single day – hour by hour – in a Chicago apartment building, to be published under the title [...]
Click on the thumbnails to see notes on Daniel Raeburn’s introduction to his book on Chris Ware (Monographics) published by Yale University Press, 2004.
Click on the thumbnails to see (largely illegible) notes from my visit to the Hogarth exhibition at Tate Britain.
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