In addition to the already-mentioned Maus and Watchmen, I'd add The Sandman and all its offspring, Persepolis, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, Joe Sacco's The Fixer, and the 9/11 Commission Report. (That last one is what I'd give to anyone who somehow hasn't read comics as an example of what they can do.)

Thanks! I liked how this one came out.

New article on my man Brakhage.

psst. . .don't forget to punch the "News" button for today's "New on DVD and Blu-ray" article.

Nope, it's real.

This needs to be remembered for everyone making the "oh Congress will restrain him if Trump becomes President" argument: the majority of Republicans offered a few complaints about him and then threw themselves in the general vicinity of his dick. They ain't gonna restrain shit, especially not if he gets even more…

Mine too, and this was my attempt to understand why.

I haven't seen it, but I know that's always what Clark has been about; he first became known for photographs of junkies shooting up. He's always wanted to show that there really are people that dumb and dangerous in the world, people who really don't have any kind of morals. He shifted into doing that in film with Ki…

I finally saw it recently and was mightily impressed with him. All of The Hateful Eight involves taking these characters and showing there's more to them than what we see, and Goggins got the most out of that. (If you look back a few weeks in my comment history, you'll see a lot of conversations about it.)

He no longer runs the Solute Record Club but he still comments there. I'm sure he'd welcome a reply and the rest of us would all welcome a throwdown.

Nope. Talking Heads was covered back when it was The Dissolve Record Club in the comment sections of the Read On articles. Here are some:

"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"

There were so many reviews where phrases like "but aren't we all like this?" and "we all just never want to make decisions" and such kept coming up. And we're not all like that—like you said, it's about a specific, criminal history and community, and a specific, poisonous family. Reading the reviews, I found myself…

I SAID SPEAK UP SONNY.

Agreed; I was taking the term "Sad White Men" more on TODDDDDDD!!!!'s terms there. He really wrote about it as a story of Sad White Men and their inability to change; the criminal aspect came across as almost secondary.

Sweet! You know you have a bunch of readers waiting for you there. (You could also put it up on the Avocado.)

The Paris Is Burning essay already took on some ideas of community, so feel free to check that out if you haven't already.

His (apparently) final novels are his best, particularly the last one, Nemesis: short, elegant, almost mythic.

Hey, I praised Hamilton for appropriating the shit out of everything it touched. Doesn't get more American than that!

This is why I'm so drawn to the conservative tradition, because there's so much emphasis on community (essay on this probably lands in November). We can talk about our identities—our separateness—all we want, but at some point we have to find a way to live with and love each other.