This is a semester I’ve been waiting on for a long, long time. It’s the semester when – finally! – UGA is able to participate…
Tag: Book Technologies
[Warning: This post contains discussions of sexual assault.] Way back in my first post, I claimed that Wimmen’s Comix performed an “often-playful, sometimes-aggressive, and always-transgressive”…
This post contains images depicting sex and various stages of nudity. I know I said in the last post that Issue #3 of Wimmen’s Comix…
My dad hates pumpkin pie. He reminds us of this fact every Thanksgiving as he eats a giant slice of it. He always adds “But…
Imagine that your favorite author of all time has decided to release a suuuper special edition of their most famous work, in collaboration with a…
Now I know what you’re thinking. And I can explain, just trust me. Despite the obvious differences in form, production, and time, comic books, in…
In the past fifty years, my family Bible was not used as a means for reading or studying scripture, but to store family records and…
A woman on her sickbed. After three days of illness. Paralysis taking hold. Near-death. “Hafe died” (f.101v). A crucifix held out before her. A gory…
On my first solo trip to Hargrett Libraries reading room, I felt anxious. In the days and minutes leading up, I pored over Dr. Camp’s…
The artist’s book Sea Air by Susan Allix is an excellent example of the book as a container. Sea Air the book contains sea air the thing through its selection and combination of materials. Further, in rejecting ideals that manuscripts and typical books take for granted, Sea Air facilitates engagement with the hidden decisions in every object.