Wait and See
Fun Home was nominated for two Eisner (comics) Awards for the year. I’ll be curious to see how the voters respond to the book.
Beautiful Theology
Signifying truth in more than words alone
A site for discussing the relation of meaning, images, sounds, and words to theological discourse.
The seminar begins with Magritte’s “Words and Images” at this page. It continues with Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics on this page.
- Fun Home Advance DiscussionVery much to say about ...
- Understanding Comics ch. 9OK, again with the disag...
- Understanding Comics ch. 8One might think that a c...
- Understanding Comics ch. 7OK, granted that I don’t...
- Understanding Comics ch. 6Delightful as the preced...
- Understanding Comics ch. 4 & 5You may have more to...
- Understanding Comics chap. 3In chapters 1 and 2, M...
- TreasonMicah points to this column by Jon Carroll....
- Understanding Comics chap. 2The convergence of UC ...
- Understanding Comics ch. 1I get excited every time...
Reading List
René Magritte
“Les Mots et les Images” In La Révolution surréaliste 12 (December 15, 1929): 32-33. Reprinted in Écrits Complets, ed. André Blavier. (Paris: Flammarion, 1979), 60-61.
Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics. Tundra Press, 1993; rep. Harper Perennial.
Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997.
Other Likely Reading
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Luce Irigaray
Sexes and Genealogies. Columbia UP, 1993.
James Chandler, et al.
Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994.
Scott McCloud
Reinventing Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
Making Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2006.
Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2001 (orig. ed. 1983).
Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1990.
Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2006.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Fun Home was nominated for two Eisner (comics) Awards for the year. I’ll be curious to see how the voters respond to the book.
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