When I first learned about found poetry, I was taught that we could encounter poetry anywhere we went. Any text could be considered poetry even if it weren’t meant to be seen as such. Later on, I learned that found poetry is also poetry that is cobbled together from other kinds of texts. There is even poetry constructed out of the speech of Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense. Likewise, everyday objects that weren’t meant to be art can be transformed into art, one very famous example being a urinal ‘made into’ a fountain
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In early August 2013, Alyssa Rosenberg posted an article about a panel discussion she attended, whic...
This post is the first in a series on how comics artists represent talk in comics. I’ll be writing a...
In my previous post on the textures of the everyday, I explored the blend of everyday occurrences du...
My interest in comics from an academic standpoint is how language codes function. Mostly I examine h...
In recognition of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write a post about love in comics. But not any kind ...
On 23-24 April 2013, I attended a conference called “Images of Terror, Narratives of Insecurity: Lit...
In two separate posts on Pencil Panel Page, Qiana Whitted and Aaron Meskin have explored the way com...
A couple of years ago, some of my undergraduate students and I were talking about comics, and one of...
For the final installment of this series about comics and representations of everyday life, I will b...
his week (starting Monday 10 June 2013), CNN is broadcasting stories every day in a series called Co...
In my last post, I wrote about simultaneous talk in comics, exploring the way that speech balloons c...
As a linguist, I am professionally devoted to the scientific study of language. But I have a confess...
I recently made a rather significant move from Omaha, Nebraska to Stockholm, Sweden. I accepted a vi...
Welcome to the third post in the Pencil Panel Page roundtable on George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. We are...
For my part in the retrospective, I have the pleasure of revisiting Roy’s questions to choose my fav...
In early August 2013, Alyssa Rosenberg posted an article about a panel discussion she attended, whic...
This post is the first in a series on how comics artists represent talk in comics. I’ll be writing a...
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