Decades into the phenomenon of graphic novels, it can still feel transgressive to read adult stories in a medium associated with children. The best works evoke both the melancholic haze of visual ...
In Toute le Mémoire du Monde, his 1956 short film about France’s Bibliothèque Nationale, comics-loving director Alain Resnais creeps up on heaping piles of Mandrake the Magician and Dick Tracy comics ...