Nina Mickwitz explores Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s mix of personal memory and quotation in his tribute to Anant Pai, the founder of India’s Amar Chitra Katha comics, who died in February 2011.
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Berlin: chemistry on and of the page
In this contribution, Nina Mickwitz shows how a scene from Jason Lutes’s Berlin: City of Stones, demonstrates that the capacity of the comics page for multiple perspectives is as pertinent to intimacy and interpersonal relations as to the fragmented experiences of urban life.
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco
Nina Mickwitz performs a close reading of a double-page spread from Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza. Follow her steps as she unravels the compositional dynamics of the two pages, and how they relate to the violence and brutality of the story they convey.
