Dear you,
Welcome to the online chapter of the michigan comix collective–an interdisciplinary group of University of Michigan graduate students with academic interests in comix (comics/sequential art/the graphic novel/bandes dessinees). You have deduced it all, of course (!), but here we state for the record our intent to provide you with incisive, intellectually stimulating comix related commentary, links, recommendations and other sequential art related errata. We mean to contribute our energies to shaping a body of scholarly criticism that does more than justify the right of creators to work in the comix medium and the right of readers to value that medium–mature academic work that assumes the value of the primary material. Thanks to the industrious efforts of Scott McCloud, Douglas Wolk and others, comix readers in our current moment have the luxury of building on the critical foundations these theorizers of the Ninth Art have laid out. We hope–cordially, with generosity and intelligence–to add our bricks to the wall. See you soon.
yrs.,
the michigan comix collective
Tags: academia, comics, comix, Douglas Wolk, graphic novels, michigan, ninth art, Scott McCloud, sequential art, strangers in paradise, terry moore
