By Michael Niederhausen © 1999 Michael Niederhausen This essay was submitted to the faculty of Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Approved by: Dr. Tyrone Williams – Faculty Thesis Advisor Dr. Norman Finkelstein – English Department Chair […]

Penny Blubaugh Melissa Scott is the author of eighteen books, most classified as science fiction. She was asked The Question by a friend of her mother’s after publishing her first novel. “So tell me Melissa, why does someone who went to Harvard write this stuff anyway?”[1] Emma Bull is the […]

dave Mockaitis mockaits@uiuc.edu In 1975, Laura Mulvey’s essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” was published in the film journal Screen. A few years later in 1981, Mulvey published “Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ inspired by King Vidor’s Duel In the Sun.‘” Since the publication of these seminal texts, […]

Contents: p.2  Caveat – A Word to the Wise p.3-8  Chapter 1 – There are no facts, just interpretations What is narrative? So what is narrative, and how is it portrayed in comics? p.9-20  Chapter 2 – You shouldn’t trust the storyteller, only trust the story Finding […]

Reported by Leigh Weimers in yesterday’s Mercury News:Cult hero alert: Neil Gaiman, creator of the Sandman comic book series who’s now a novelist and screenwriter, comes to town Oct. 16 for a free afternoon Q and A session at San Jose State University and a paid-admission reading/book signing on campus […]

Biography from:Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2004. Entry updated 10/21/2004. [Ed. note: Note the date of the entry – as of the posting date (12/30/05), 1602 has been completed, as have the Mirrormask script and associated books, and A […]

Biography from: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2003 Neil (Richard) Gaiman 1960- Nationality: English Entry Updated : 09/30/2002 British author Neil Gaiman told an interviewer from Carpe Noctem: “When I’m writing, you open somewhat a window to the back […]

This is the listing for Neil Gaiman from Gale’s Biography Resource Center database. You should be able to find many of these books in larger sized public libraries or college libraries. I have made notes next to the references I have seen, and those that were available as text have […]

A. David Lewis (adlewis@directresults.com) has an article entitled The Genuine Literary Value of the Comic Book Medium.

Dave Mockaitis discusses The Sandman and Psychoanalysis.