I’m a straight man, but I’ve never felt comfortable performing masculinity in the way that’s most commonly been proscribed to me. Growing up in suburban Texas, I felt the constant pressure to conform to a certain identity–watch football, like cars, find a certain kind of woman attractive. It didn’t help that my hooked-nose and sometimes-curly […]
Anatomy of a Page: Noah van Sciver’s My Hot Date, Page 12
Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]