I chat with Scott McCloud
Some readers of peterme.com will know I’ve long had an obsession with Scott McCloud’s work. 15 years ago, I read Understanding Comics, and it was a bolt of lightning in my intellectual development. About 10 years ago, I had the fortune of meeting Scott, and maintaining a friendship with him. (here’s a scary picture of [...]
Where’s the Lester Bangs of Comics?
(I started writing this before the birth of our son. So the timing is a little off) This weekend I devoured Reading Comics, a book of comics criticism by Douglas Wolk. (Thank goodness for the library — I would have felt like a schmuck had I paid for something I read so quickly.) It was: [...]
