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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics

Monday, September 8, 2008

Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics is a thin book (just under fifty pages) of essays by who you’d think, and it’s about what you’d think. Except Alan Moore doesn’t cover much of the nuts-and-bolts, as you may expect; he drives deeper, to the theory. Why comics work the way they do. He wrote it in […]

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William Shakespeare : Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Based on how much I’d enjoyed Bloom’s Seven Major Tragedies, I checked out another lecture series: Peter Saccio’s William Shakespeare : Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, from the library. These lectures broadened my understanding of Shakespeare generally, and in regard to his specific works. Since I listened to Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies right after Bloom’s lectures, […]

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Shakespeare : The Seven Major Tragedies

Saturday, September 6, 2008

This series of lectures, by Harold Bloom, gave me an interest in Shakespeare I never had before. I never understood the hype, even after reading Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet in high school, and seeing a high school performance of Macbeth (which I realize may have lacked a certain… j’ne sais quois). It was ok, […]

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Soon I Will Be Invincible

Friday, September 5, 2008

Austin Grossman’s first novel, Soon I Will Be Invincible, is a fun, quick book that references the whole of superhero comics (and some other fantasy) with the usual tropes and plenty of in-jokes. (One such is the reference to criminals being “a cowardly and superstitious lot,” said with plenty of irony.) It redoes many of […]

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