Douglas Wolk

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Douglas Wolk is the author of Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels
Work and What They Mean (Da Capo, 2007) and Live at the Apollo (Continuum, 2004). He has written about comic books and pop music for The New York Times, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Blender, The Believer, Print, Spin, the Village Voice, World Art, Salon.com, Slate.com and elsewhere; he's also a contributing editor at Publishers Weekly Comics Week and a contributing writer at
Pitchforkmedia.com. A graduate of Harvard University, Wolk was a
National Arts Journalism Program Fellow at Columbia University in
2002-2003. He lives in Portland, Oregon, runs the tiny record label
Dark Beloved Cloud, and has a blog at http://www.lacunae.com.

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How Comics Became Literature for Adults

0 Comments | Posted June 27, 2011 | 8:56 AM

Maybe you think of yourself as being not so much a "graphic novel" kind of person. But then you watch a movie based on Watchmen or Persepolis or V for Vendetta and you're told that the source material is even better, so you pick one up. Or a friend presses...

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Superhero Comics' Girl Trouble

0 Comments | Posted June 5, 2007 | 4:04 PM

The American superhero comics industry -- once supported at least as much by girls as by boys -- has been desperately trying to figure out how to bring back women readers for decades. It's very simple. All it has to do is not hang out a gigantic sign announcing GIRLS:...

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